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Northport, AL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: A busy roadway crossing along Rice Mine Road made it difficult and risky for people on foot to reach a shared-use trail and nearby destinations. Older adults often avoided the crossing because of traffic speed and driver behavior. The City of Northport upgraded the crossing with new high-visibility striping and solar-powered flashing beacons. The city also hosted a public demonstration that encouraged residents to test the crossing and share feedback. The changes improved confidence among older adults, and community input is guiding additional trail and walking improvements.
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Montville, NJ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: Residents in a housing development for older adults had no safe way to walk along a busy road to reach nearby destinations, forcing them into traffic or limiting trips outside the neighborhood. The Township of Montville addressed this gap by installing a new sidewalk that connected the development to existing pedestrian routes. The sidewalk created a continuous, protected path to a nearby bus stop, community park, farms and neighboring areas, replacing an unsafe roadway shoulder. Township officials reported residents stopping by during construction to express appreciation for the project and what it would mean for their daily routines. The new connection has expanded opportunities for outdoor activity and independent travel and now supports future plans to link additional walking trails and pedestrian access to new recreation amenities.
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Westport, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: The Slow with the Flow and Walkable Westport campaigns will enhance pedestrian safety. Public art, greenscaping, and crosswalk painting will slow traffic and improve walkability.
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Greensboro, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Creativity as a Catalyst for Inclusion, a project of the Creative Aging Network, worked to create a community garden and outdoor classroom for community events. Assembling a team of volunteers and community activists, they cleaned up the grounds, built raised garden beds, created walking paths and planted native vegetation. A local artisan created custom benches for the garden, created from the wood of a fallen tree on the property. To bring people into the space, local artists led a series of workshops onsite. Project organizers say activities programmed for the garden are meant to be inclusive and appeal to people of all ages and abilities.
Greensboro, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: This project will partner with neighborhood organizations to conduct two meetings and two walk audits. The project will gather testimony to produce a community walk report for future street and sidewalk plans.
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