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2022 Spring Newsletter

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · April 18, 2022 10:15 AM

Newsletter sent on 4/19/2022

Rolling into Spring! 🌷

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2021 Year In Review

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · January 26, 2022 12:26 PM

Newsletter sent on 1/26

This year was Twenty Twenty FUN!

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Fall Newsletter 2021

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · October 15, 2021 9:50 AM

Newsletter sent on 10/20

Fall Newsletter: Bike Smart Is Back! 👍

We’re busy gearing up for our fall programs and looking back on another great summer!

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Summer Newsletter 2021

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · July 21, 2021 8:40 AM

Newsletter sent on 7/21

Summer is better by bike! 

We’re rolling out our programs and services to make biking and walking more enjoyable for all. Read all about what we've been up to this summer in our newsletter! 

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Spring Newsletter 2021

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · April 28, 2021 7:57 AM

Spring is one of our favorite seasons, as we’re busy planning out the year ahead and getting ready for summer!

What are we doing this spring?

  • Installing a Demonstration Project to make a village safe and pleasant for pedestrians
  • Sending our Bike Smart trailer to 20 schools
  • Developing a new interactive mobile Island Line Map
  • Prepping our Bike Ferry for a long fun season on the water
  • Tuning our rental bikes for the Trailside Center
  • And more! Scroll down to discover what we’re doing!

We’re excited for all our programs and services to roll out for the season and encouraging all Vermonters to experience the joy of biking and walking!

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2020 Year In Review

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · January 21, 2021 9:25 AM

A few words from Local Motion Executive Director, Karen Yacos:

When I look back on the past year, I see a time of challenges large and small, some met and others still looming. Each of these challenges creates opportunities to better our communities, our organizations, and ourselves. Local Motion has heeded that call at every level, with both the adaptability and the limitations that come with being a small nonprofit. Simultaneously, we are supporting and supported by communities, partners, and organizations across the state as we take on this work together. You’ll hear all about it throughout this newsletter. 

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Fall Newsletter 2020

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · October 15, 2020 7:19 AM

Summer has come to a close and fall is in full force with winter fast approaching! Before the snow falls, we wanted to give you an update on all the great things that we worked on over the summer.

  • We formed a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team and have set out to understand and address structural racism within our organization and in the context of the work we do.
  • We operated our Bike Ferry and Trailside Center safely and successfully during this summer of COVID-19.
  • We turned our in-person safety, education, and Learning Network workshops into webinars and reached more people than ever.
  • We continued to offer our E-bike Lending Library so Vermonters could get outside in a new and fun way.
  • We maintained over three miles of protected bike lanes in Burlington.

But that’s not all! Read more about what we’ve done this summer by scrolling through our fall newsletter. 

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Summer Newsletter 2020

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · July 21, 2020 9:22 AM

If the last several months have taught us anything, it’s how important it is for Local Motion to be adaptable and resilient. Practically overnight, we have transformed the way we communicate with our community of supporters, volunteers, and partners, reimagined much of our programming, and found new ways to deliver it. As we learned of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others, we began the difficult process of evaluating our role in becoming antiracist in our work.  

These are challenging times, and what we do has never been more important. We have provided leadership and expertise in supporting communities as they create new spaces for people to recreate, commute, shop, and be outside by advocating for—and even helping to maintain—everything from expanded parklets to new and improved bike infrastructure. Our instructional video series is helping new and returning riders (and there are many of them!) be safe as they discover the joy and utility of bicycling. Many of these same riders are utilizing our expanded E-bike Lending Libraries as a way to try an electric bike for the first time. 

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Spring Newsletter 2020

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · April 29, 2020 9:01 AM

We hope this newsletter finds you safe and well. As spring blooms right before our eyes, we are adapting to our current environment to ensure our programs continue to operate successfully. 

We are holding public online workshops to help folks get out on their bikes, continuing to advocate for safer and more equitable streets, monitoring and giving feedback on infrastructure proposals, and pushing officials to take notice of the inadequate infrastructure that this crisis has highlighted. Not only that, but we’re also working on projects that will make our other programs even more effective once they restart. Scroll through our Spring Newsletter and see for yourself all the great work we have been up to!

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2019 Year in Review

Posted by Sarah Illingworth · January 22, 2020 8:41 AM

A few words from Local Motion Executive Director, Karen Yacos:

As we look back on 2019, I see a year in which Local Motion advanced the work of culture change and movement building in a serious way. We brought Jeff Speck—a thought leader in designing equitable bike- and pedestrian-friendly communities—to UVM, where he spoke to a packed room of officials including mayors and planners, advocates, and interested citizens. And then we brought many of those same folks to Montreal to experience firsthand the sort of changes for which Speck (and Local Motion) advocate. 

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