| Every three days someone is hit while walking or bicycling in Lansing, Michigan, on average. (Lansing Police Department Traffic Crash Reporting System Data) |
| In Lansing, 2.45% of trips are by foot and 0.42% by bike. vs. In Ann Arbor, 15.79% of trips are by foot, and in Madison 3.19% of trips are by bike. (U.S. Census Decennial, 2000) |
Maps and Data
| Lansing Walking & Bicycling Task Force, c/o Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council P.O. Box 17164, Lansing, MI 48901 517-214-5684 |
Maps and data are excerpted from the Lansing Non-Motorized Transportation Planning
Resource Book by Matthew Brinkley, Daniel Guild, Kasif Khowaja, Suzanne Miske,
Hyung-Jun Park, Hillary Lewis-Reimers, Quinton Robinson, and Janet Strauss.
Resource Book by Matthew Brinkley, Daniel Guild, Kasif Khowaja, Suzanne Miske,
Hyung-Jun Park, Hillary Lewis-Reimers, Quinton Robinson, and Janet Strauss.
| The walkability and bikeability of our city shapes our everyday experiences. |
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| Accidents are concentrated along destination-rich cross-town arterials: MLK, Cedar, Jolly, Mt. Hope, Saginaw, Oakland, Willow, Michigan, and Capitol. |
| Orange areas indicate that fewer than 80% of households have access to a vehicle. |
| Red areas indicate that more than 15% of households are living in poverty. |
| students live too close to ride the bus to school. The majority of students at these schools walk or bike to school. Red areas show where more than 15% of households are in poverty. |
| Blue and green areas indicate areas where residents are more likely to commute by bicycle. Dark blue, green/blue, and bright green are the highest bike-commuting areas |
| Corbis Royalty Free Photography |
| Photo by Bell Sports/Gareth Walters |
| Photo by Heidi Potter |
| Photo by Steve Longrove |
| Making Lansing, Michigan Accessible and Walk & Bike Friendly! |