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Durham, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: The Move-A-Bull City event will close a 1.2-mile corridor in downtown Durham, connecting two greenways. This open streets event will feature activities and demonstrations of safe street designs.
Randolph, VT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: This project will enhance pedestrian safety at key downtown crosswalks by installing a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon RRFB and safety flags.
Los Angeles, CA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: This project will educate communities about Californias new daylighting law, which prohibits parking within 20 feet of crosswalks. It aims to raise awareness and improve pedestrian safety.
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Flint, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: To make the Footbridge Park Plaza safer and more inviting, the Carriage Town Neighborhood Association added benches, trash receptacles and a dog clean-up station to the space. They also upgraded lighting, allowing visitors to more safely use the plaza at night. Many Carriage Town residents use the footbridge to walk to and from Flint's downtown. After the improvements, project organizers polled locals and found 80 percent said they were more likely to use the plaza. Neighbors have since begun work on a second plaza nearby.
Flint, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The project recruited volunteers and installed raised beds at community gardens located at food banks and centers for older adults.
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