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Lea Brooks, Amy Johnson Ely, Saara Snow, Steve Durrant and Dan Goodman
last and still future advocacy initiative is
to get SCDOT to exclude certain routes
from RS with relatively low ROR crashes
that are still popular bicycling routes, by
purchasing recreational cycling data to
quickly create a state priority bike route
map. And finally, we currently are partnering with a dozen other organizations
in a campaign that includes a policy with
a three year SCDOT repaving schedule,
so local governments have at least two

in coordination with advocates responded with an intensive petition campaign,
and they eventually convinced Caltrans
to do a study to determine how to fix the
chip seal, which they did, and this remains the only study done to date. A big
victory for Bike SLO.
Saara gave a full run down of Adventure Cycling's recommended Rumble
Strip policy. Her presentation was absolutely fantastic, because we used Adventure Cycling's recommendations to
improve design in SC. She also reviewed
model policies in Michigan, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, which recommend RS only
be applied in areas with relatively high
ROR crash rates and low bicycling use.
A final lesson learned is to leverage
and strengthen connections between
state and local advocacy organizations
and clubs because you'll need them when
these crises in bikeability happen. But
these "bumps in the road" can only be
overcome by a tight knit group of enthusiastic, engaged, informed and articulate
advocates willing to keep at it for the
long haul.

years to find the money to add shoulders,
before the state comes through with a repaving truck.
Lea then presented on the learning
experience Caltrans suffered when the
agency placed chip seal on the beautiful 25+ mile stretch of the Pacific Coast
Highway. This big, chunky aggregate is
commonly placed on low volume, rural
roads because it is cheaper though not in Amy Johnson Ely is Executive Director of
the long term. The bicyclists in this area, the Palmetto Cycling Coalition

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