Palmetto Cycling Coalition

Mission: Promoting access, improving safety, and educating all South Carolinians on the value and importance of bicycling for healthy lifestyles and communities.

Founded in 1993, and incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1998

Constituents:

Recent Accomplishments•Since 2005:

• Hosted 8 Complete Streets workshop• Voted Advocacy Organization of the Year (2006)• Updated the bicycle traffic safety law with SC has anti-

harassment provision• Updated bike traffic safety law in SC Driver’s Manual• Distributed 15,000 SC bike law cards to law enforcement and

clubs• Assisted 6 BFC’s with applications• Conducted 4 LCI courses• Partnered with BikeLaw and DHEC to distribute bike safety

items• Partnered with EatSmartMoveMore to publish Complete Streets

Toolkit and Manual, and host workshops• Partnered with BikeLaw and DPS to launch Safe Streets Save

Lives campaign to reduce bike fatalities• Partnered with Palmetto Conservation Foundation to host the

Mia Birk Palmetto Joyride event• Created Communities for Cycling group to guide street design

manual or complete streets policy

SC facts

6 Bike Friendly Communities. 6 Bronze, 1 Silver. Newest BFC announced 2 days ago: Rock Hill. 5 TMA’s: Greenville, Spartanburg, Charleston, Rock Hill,

Columbia Very high # road miles/person. Very low $ spent/road mile. Very low state gas tax. Virtually non-existent state general fund allocation to

transportation. High # counties with local transportation sales tax.

Bicycling is a SOLUTION

current PCC projects

Safe Streets Save Lives Campaign

Phase I developed main stream bike safety videos and PSA’s aimed at educating bicyclists and motorists about the rights and responsibilities on the road

Phase II is developing bike safety curriculum for law enforcement and distributing PSA’s, videos, and developing compelling public interest stories for safe streets issues.

Communities for Cycling (C4C)

Modeled after Mia Burke’s Cities for Cycling Partnership of local transportation planners from

throughout the state Discussing local street design guide as resource for

smaller, lower budget communities without bike planners Next step: state road design and SCDOT implementation.

MAP-21 funding prioritization

Urging funding equity from “normal” pots of transportation funding: HSIP, CMAQ, STP

SCDOT in major financial crisis: solution is to incentivize state to local ownership transfer.

60% of SC roads are state owned. Very high # road miles/person. SCDOT Commissioners like fix-it-first model, though

openly mock funding bike lanes. More repaving money is our opportunity for road diets. LOCAL governments recognize bike facility benefits.

Rumble Strips Met with SCDOT repeatedly with varying results. Contractors not applying rumbles according to internal

policy. Recently re-established expectations…pending… SCDOT tentatively agreed to allowing BMP’s, East Coast

Greenway, and priority recreational cycling route lists as a filter for future rumble applications

Though when bike routes conflict with high motorist crash routes -> compromise rumbles and stakeholder communication.

Local Successes Greenville: Swamp Rabbit Trail, hospitality tax, 5 foot bike

lanes, Frank Mansbach and Greenville Spinners, candidate scorecard

Spartanburg: road diet on Main Street, Partners for Active Living, Upstate Forever and zoning amendments

Charleston: Battery 2 Beach initiative provides 22 mile section of road/off road pathway in a high density arc (Tom Bradford, Charleston Moves), bike corrals, big Safe Routes interest, Coastal Conservation League and locally established bike access ordinance for formerly limited access highways/bridges.

Local Successes Hilton Head Island: the only Silver community, bike maps,

bike rodeos and other events, advocated for better engineering and signage, partnership with the Chamber of Commerce, bike ambassadors

Columbia: Main St revitalization and bike corrals, greenway investments

Aiken: Bike Master Planning Rock Hill: newest BFC, Bike Master Planning Sumter: Bike Master Planning Cayce: Bike Master Planning

Long Term Plan

Cross-pollination of knowledge in SC Advocacy movement at all scales: state, regional, and local

Further local Advocacy representation on MPO boards More local BPACs More Bike Summits for yearly recharge Further education of Enforcement community Mainstream the movement. Celebrate local successes. Empower local transportation designers as they build for

people, not the vehicle.

Contact Us

Amy Johnson, Executive Director

Palmetto Cycling Coalition

amy@pccsc.net

803-445-1099