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La Marque, TX

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: Older cyclists faced safety risks on local paths due to missing sidewalks and bike lanes. To address this, the city conducted bike audits that identified hazards and prioritized improvements. Volunteers age 50-plus contributed over 60 hours gathering input from residents and recommending changes such as bike lanes, sidewalks and better signage. The audits informed plans for new infrastructure on critical streets and raised awareness of pedestrian safety, strengthening the case for policy and funding support to advance long-term improvements.

Merrimac, MA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: Older adult volunteers will conduct a bike audit focused on areas they frequent. The audit will assess the condition of sidewalks and paths and inform efforts to implement an e-bike program.

Rutland, VT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: The project will conduct bike audits throughout Vermont. Older volunteers will assess the safety, accessibility, and usability of bike paths. At least three audits will be conducted.

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Merrimac, MA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: Older adult volunteers will conduct a bike audit focused on areas they frequent. The audit will assess the condition of sidewalks and paths and inform efforts to implement an e-bike program.

Greenland, NH

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Accessibility of amenities

Description: The Great Bay Discovery Center serves to support land protection and research, as well as provide a space for learning about the Great Bay estuarine ecosystem. To make the space more welcoming, the Great Bay Stewards expanded the Center's accessible garden, adding a new sensory garden and an accessible swing. The Estuary Inclusion Garden now features a space where people with intellectual disabilities can experience the area through sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. The centerpiece of the garden is a blue heron sculpture created by a local artist and surrounded by grasses, flowers and herbs.

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