Local Motion | Columbia, MO

Providing walking, biking, and transit solutions to meet people’s everyday transportation needs.

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Bike, Walk & Wheel Week

October 2-9: Event schedule & tickets

Our Rebrand Story

We rebranded. Here’s why.

ADVOCACY WORK

Local Motion is a grassroots advocacy organization focused on transportation equity.

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What’s New

Get out on November 2nd to vote yes to the future

Get out on November 2nd to vote yes to the future of trails in Columbia!

To read more about the Park Sales Tax, click the link in our bio.

Now accepting applications! Apply now with the lin

Now accepting applications! Apply now with the link in the bio to be on our Board of Directors.

Wednesday, October 13 from 6-7pm, join us for our

Wednesday, October 13 from 6-7pm, join us for our Let's Chat presentation and discussion about How Transportation can Build Sustainable Cities by Erica Ascani, Community Engagement Coordinator.

Most of the time when we think about sustainable cities, we think about renewable energy, maybe houses with solar panels, more green spaces, and electric cars. But sustainable, clean energy cities are also fueled by safe and accessible street designs, places made for people to walk, bike, and take transit to get where they need to go.

All presentations are free to attend! Register for this presentation with the link below.

https://lomocomo.org/events/lets-chat/

Stroll on over to the Farmers' Market this morning

Stroll on over to the Farmers' Market this morning to start off your Homecoming weekend right!

1769 W Ash St, 8am-12pm

Cheers to women empowering women!🥂 It was incre

Cheers to women empowering women!🥂 It was incredible to have over SIXTY women come together to celebrate women on bikes at Vélo Vino Vici!

This event couldn't succeed without the support of our local businesses! Thank you to @logboatbrewing and @lbvwinery for the alcohol. Thank you to @waltsbikeshop, @pedegocolumbia, @fretboard_coffee, and @uprisebakery for being stops along our route. Last but not least, thank you to @goldiesbagels for the delicious rugelachs.

Tonight! Come have fun at our Neighborhood Bike Ev

Tonight! Come have fun at our Neighborhood Bike Event where we will have bike games for kids! Bring your own bike, but if you don't have one we'll have some on-site to share.

-5:30-7pm
-5380 Edenton Blvd, at Edenton basketball court (corner of Edenton Blvd and Greensboro Dr)
-Food and drinks provided.

We're excited to welcome Strong Towns founder, Cha

We're excited to welcome Strong Towns founder, Charles Marohn, tonight from 6-8pm at Ragtag Cinema.

In his presentation, he will show how local leaders of all types can change the negative trajectory in their towns and help them to become more resilient—no matter what challenges lie ahead.

This presentation is free to attend. Sign up with the link in the bio to save your seat!

Our fall Bike, Walk & Wheel Week continues tomorro

Our fall Bike, Walk & Wheel Week continues tomorrow with Walk to School Day and Strong Towns Curbside Chat.

Join children around the world in celebrating walking to school tomorrow morning. Share a picture with us from your walk!

Tomorrow evening, join us at Ragtag from 6-8pm to enjoy a presentation from Strong Towns founder, Charles Marohn. He will give a presentation to show how local leaders of all types can change the negative trajectory in their towns and help them to become more resilient—no matter what challenges lie ahead. This presentation is free to attend! To register for this event, and to read more about Bike, Walk & Wheel Week events visit the website linked in our bio!

A lot has changed since 2000. Our founders had a

A lot has changed since 2000.

Our founders had a vision of building a safe and attractive network of trails and sidewalks for walking, biking, and using wheelchairs.

We’ve grown a lot as an organization over the 21 years since we were founded.

We began to understand that decades of policy decisions steeped in systemic oppression designed a transportation system that systematically places people in target social identity groups (e.g., Black residents, low-income families, children, older adults, and people with disabilities) at high risk of harm. Systemic barriers in the transportation system limit people’s access to basic needs (e.g., food, healthcare, jobs) and their participation in democracy, and place them at high risk of death and serious injury from traffic crashes. We shifted to make transportation equity the foundation of our advocacy approach.

In 2019, we launched a grassroots organizing strategy with neighborhood leaders in the Vision Zero priority neighborhoods (i.e., neighborhoods with high rates of people of color, low-income families, and households without vehicles). We now have a Neighborhood Leadership Council made up of ten members who live and work in these neighborhoods. These leaders are helping us develop a new best practice anti-racist community engagement process to mobilize traditionally underrepresented voices in transportation planning.

While our love of walking and biking has remained the same, we’ve expanded our focus to include the street network and transit, in addition to trails and sidewalks.

PedNet is now Local Motion.

Our vision is towns built for people, where it’s easy to walk, bike, and ride transit, and everyone can get where they want to go.

Our mission is to provide walking, biking, and transit solutions to meet people’s everyday transportation needs.

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