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2024 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
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Transportation
└ Public or private transit access
└ Public or private transit access
This project will engage local older adults to ensure their needs are considered in efforts to redesign several bus shelters across the city. The Committee seeks to make public transit accessible, safe, comfortable and climate-resilient for people of all ages.
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La Union, NM
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public or private transit access
Description: This project built a covered bus stop at a central location in the town. It also installed a gazebo with benches outside the community center.
Toledo, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public or private transit access
Description: This project upgraded a bus stop near the clinic with a bench and shelter. It also improved ride-sharing arrangements with a new partnership and installed bike racks at the clinic.
Hamtramck, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Public or private transit access
Description: The City of Hamtramck wanted to create more equitable access to local public transit and pedestrian and bicycling routes. To allow older adults to access more transportation options, the City added benches along key transit, pedestrian and bicycling routes. To reach non-English speaking residents, they published informational brochures in Arabic, Bengali and English. Additionally, project organizers worked with the Detroit Institute of the Arts to install artwork near several benches. The project is part of larger plans for the Joe Louis Greenway, a 27-mile walking and biking trail that will extend from the Detroit riverfront to Hamtramck and other nearby communities.
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Bikeability
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
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