Local Motion | Columbia, MO

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

Livable Streets

Transforming the transportation system in Columbia by building equity-focused streets

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Bike, Walk, & Wheel Week

May 14-20, 2023

What’s New

📅 SAVE THE DATE 🥳 🚲 🚌 👟🦽 Mark

📅 SAVE THE DATE 🥳

🚲 🚌 👟🦽 Mark your calendars for this year's Bike, Walk, & Wheel Week happening May 14th-20th!🦽 👟 🚌 🚲

Stay tuned for more details on this year's lineup of events throughout the week 🤩

#adventurebybike #bike #cycling #cyclinglife #missouri #columbiamo #transportation #allbodiesonbikes #midmo

🆒 Get to know our staff 🤩 Jackson Hotaling

🆒 Get to know our staff 🤩

Jackson Hotaling is the Community Engagement Director 📢 at our partner organization Missourians for Responsible Transportation.

Jackson is a history aficionado 📚 and a world traveler from Webster Groves, Missouri. Throughout his international 🌎 travels to over 53 countries, Jackson quickly realized how vital public 🚌 transportation and accessibility are to meet your basic needs.

But Jackson has always been interested in how 🚲 👟 people get where they need to go —whether he was in China, Peru, riding public transit, or recognizing the transportation challenges of Greater St. Louis in the wake of COVID-19.

When he saw an opening at 🆕 Missourians for Responsible Transportation (MRT), Jackson knew he could combine his passion for community engagement and transportation equity.

Jackson travels around Missouri meeting with community leaders who want to increase 👟 walking, 🚲 biking, and 🚌 transit options for all Missourians.

#cyclinglife #missouri #columbiamo #transportation #equity #kansascitymo #cycling #stl #bike

✔️🚲 Survey time — we want to know about y

✔️🚲 Survey time — we want to know about your cycling experiences! 🚲✔️

The City of Columbia Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission recently applied for the Bicycle Friendly Community award from the League of American Bicyclists (LAB).

LAB wants to hear from residents, local area cyclists, and bike advocates about your experiences and perceptions of cycling in Columbia.

Your input on the survey will help the League of American Bicyclists (and our community!) better understand current cycling conditions and potential areas for improvement.

Fill out the survey at the link in bio ⬆️

@gocolumbiamo @bikeleague

#cycling #cyclinglife #missouri #columbiamo #transportation #allbodiesonbikes #bike

Have you filled out our informational survey yet?

Have you filled out our informational survey yet? 🤔

This survey relates to car traffic pollution 💨 and health issues in Columbia, highlighting the affects it has on Vision Zero neighborhoods. Vision Zero Priority neighborhoods are areas with high rates of poverty, people of color, households without vehicles, crime, unemployment, stress, and poor housing.

Take the survey today by clicking the link 🔗 in the bio to learn more.

🥳 Meet our staff 🎉 Gabi Jacobs is a stylish

🥳 Meet our staff 🎉

Gabi Jacobs is a stylish 🔥 track and field 👟 star from Bloomington-Normal, IL. She proved to be anything but normal during her discus career while she was in school at The University of Missouri.

Gabi has a 🎓 bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in education, focusing on positive coaching.

She works as Local Motion's Community Engagement Coordinator, where she connects our mission and vision to the community.

When she is not out playing 🥏 disc golf at one of Columbia's beautiful courses, you can catch her at a local coffee shop 🎧 jamming to some indie or 🚲 cruising around town on her 90's mountain bike.

Gabi believes that when you get around town outside of a car you don't just move through a community, but you become a part of it.

📸 by Nick Sheaffer at the @comissourian

👟 Walk audits are a crucial tool that we use to

👟 Walk audits are a crucial tool that we use to evaluate the walkability of a city's infrastructure🦽

Walk audits can be a useful way to gather 📝 information about street and sidewalk conditions so that updates can be made with all users in mind.

We spent February conducting community walk audits around town and talking with folks about what we look for when we evaluate walkability🚶‍♀️

#columbiamo #missouri #cyclinglife #allbodiesonbikes #cycling #bike #completestreets #livablestreets

🎉 We've got big news! 🥳 We recently receive

🎉 We've got big news! 🥳

We recently received a generous $50,000 gift from the Frank W. Morris Memorial Trust that we plan to use to grow our Endurance Fund.

We created the Endurance Fund to ensure our financial resilience and long-term sustainability, and allow us to be less dependent on short-term grants and contracts.

Since 2020, the Trust has generously gifted nearly $200,000 to Local Motion to support our day-to-day advocacy mission and help us progress toward our Endurance Fund goal.

💛 We are so appreciative to the Trust for this generous gift, and to Frank for the tremendous legacy he left behind.💛

#columbiamo #missouri #cyclinglife #cycling #transportation #allbodiesonbikes #bike

What's going on with Livable Streets? We've been m

What's going on with Livable Streets? We've been meeting with City staff, the Mayor, and City Manager and reworking the policy based on our conversations and feedback while still advocating to make Columbia a place where everyone can get where they need to go.

How can you continue to show your support?

✊ Do you have a yard sign? Keep it up! They remind community members and local leaders that this something our neighbors want
✊ Send a letter of support to City Council with the 🔗 in the bio

This campaign is about you – the support you give us, the time you spend talking to your friends and loved ones about these issues, and the vision you have for this community. Thank you for advocating for a livable Columbia.

🤩 Meet our staff 🥳 Rikki Ascani is a 👟

🤩 Meet our staff 🥳

Rikki Ascani is a 👟 runner and 🌳 outdoor adventurer originally from Ironton, Pennsylvania. She discovered her lifelong passion for the 🌎 environment and social change while 📚 studying fish and wildlife conservation at Virginia Tech.

As our Community Engagement Director, Rikki has been excited to work on the ground in the 🆒 community — out from behind her desk — to witness and influence how change takes hold over time.

Rikki loves to garden 🌱🌿🪴and is transforming the Local Motion office into an indoor rainforest. You can also find her hiking with her 🐶 two dogs on her favorite trails.

#cyclinglife #cycling #equity #advocacy #visionzero #bike #adventurebybike #columbiamo #missouri #allbodiesonbikes

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