Empowering mobility & freedom for All Ages & Abilities
Channel: Active Towns
Date: 2021-07-26

Profiling the Mueller community's Zach Scott Bikeway ribbon cutting. Dutch-inspired cycle path network designs are now common in this Austin neighborhood. The protected bike lanes, protected intersections, and even the traditional red color of the cycle tracks point back to a series of educational opportunities and partnerships with the Dutch Cycling Embassy, the Think Bike workshop, and multiple study tours to The Netherlands.

Featuring interviews Preston Tyree, Mueller Community Transportation Committee member and Kathie Tovo, City Council Member, District 9.

This footage was shot on Sunday, July 28, 2019,  when the city of Austin, TX, and the Mueller community celebrated the completion of the most recent section of two-way protected bikeway infrastructure including several protected intersections which represents a significant addition to the high comfort cycling network in the PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project Target Area.

Dutch Cycling Embassy - https://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/
Think Bike Workshop - https://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/think/thinkbike-workshop

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For more information on the PeopleforBikes check out their website here: https://peopleforbikes.org/

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Background: Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman. I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places. 

Since that time I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities".

This is my personal Active Towns Channel and it features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

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