Active Transportation Alliance’s Suburban Action Week

Join the Active Transportation Alliance in February for a week-long mobilization event aimed at creating better walking, biking, and transit in Chicagoland’s suburban communities. Suburban Action Week, taking place February 15 – 20, will feature a series of short online talks and workshops with advocates, county staff, and community leaders from around the region.

Throughout the week, you can participate in a variety of sessions:

• County updates. Hear about recent and upcoming walking, biking, trail, and transit projects happening in your county directly from county departments of transportation, councils of mayors, forest preserves, and other agencies.
• Advocacy advice. Get tips and advice on best practices from advocates who have carried out campaigns to improve walking, biking and transit in their communities. Hear from several successful groups, including one that helped secure $150,000 in funding for a trail and another that helped its village launch a slow streets pilot program during the pandemic.
• Trainings & workshops. Attend workshops aimed at increasing your capacity and effectiveness as an advocate. Workshop topics include promoting pedestrian and bicyclist safety through public art, creating an inclusive community engagement plan, and learning the ins-and-outs of how a project gets engineered and built.

By registering for the event, you’ll receive links to all of the sessions and you can choose what to attend. If you are unable to attend a session you are interested in, all presentations will be recorded and shared afterwards. The full schedule for Suburban Action Week can be found here.