{"id":3257,"date":"2013-04-05T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:27:12","slug":"proud-to-be-a-health-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/proud-to-be-a-health-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud to Be a Health Champion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re honored to be recognized by the <a title=\"Washington State Public Health Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wspha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington State Public Health Association<\/a> as a Health Champion in the area of \u201c<em>Protecting You While You\u2019re on the Move<\/em>\u201d for our work on the <a title=\"Will the State Senate Vote to Help Slow Traffic in Your Neighborhood?\" href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2013\/03\/06\/will-the-state-senate-vote-to-help-slow-traffic-in-your-neighborhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill<\/a>. From the WSPHA news release:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 26 years, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Bikes<\/a>\u00a0has worked to make bicycling safer and easier for all people in Washington. This year the Alliance has been a regular presence in Olympia advocating for the Neighborhood Safe Streets Bill. This legislation would grant cities and towns the right to lower speed limits on non-arterial streets to 20 mph without conducting a traffic and engineering study.\u00a0 The aim is to increase safety for biking, playing and walking by increasing local control. The bill passed the House in February and is awaiting a vote in the Senate (the Senate Transportation Committee has tagged it a \u201cdo-pass&#8221;), expected later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance has previously been instrumental in the passage of public safety legislation to make texting and handheld device use a primary offense, and to require that traffic school curriculum include how to safely pass bicyclists and pedestrians. Its efforts to promote safety go beyond advocacy. The Alliance conducts bike safety education programs such as Go by Bike and Safe Routes to Schools.\u00a0 It also encourages biking through both sponsored rides, and its work, in partnership with the State Department of Transportation, to create more scenic bike routes.<\/p>\n<p>Through these diverse efforts, the Bicycle Alliance has made it safer for people to bike, walk and play throughout Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to\u00a0<strong>all<\/strong> the Health Champions around the state!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re honored to be recognized by the Washington State Public Health Association as a Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,54,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-health","category-legislature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Proud to Be a Health Champion! 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