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Hatfield, PA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: A series of bike audits will identify appropriate locations for new bike lanes, repair stations, bike racks and signage. Audit participants, residents and municipal leaders will meet to discuss the results and recommendations for new bike infrastructure.

Iowa City, IA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: Two walk audits will bring together older adults, students and local stakeholders. The first will highlight multimodal transportation options and placemaking efforts in the Glendale neighborhood. The second will identify safety challenges along corridors connecting a high school and senior center.

Anchorage, AK

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: Ten older adult riders will conduct bike audits on the trails at and around the community's most popular park. Three audits will identify work needed to accommodate tricycles and other adaptive cycles. The other two audits will identify safe connections on busy access routes.

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Sullivan, ME

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Public safety interventions

Description: The grant will fund an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the town's community building, which will be accessible to anyone using the facilities for exercise, meetings or other activities.

Sullivan, ME

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Trails

Description: Sullivan has a network of hiking trials but lacked options for people with mobility challenges. To give residents of all ages and abilities a place to walk, Age-Friendly Sullivan installed an accessible walking trail at the Sorrento-Sullivan Recreation Center. First, volunteers worked to prepare an underused area on the rec center's property, creating drainage culverts and mowing grass. Then they spread crushed gravel to create a hard, flat trail surface. Before, the recreation center offered several amenities aimed at children and youth, including a playground, basketball courts and a skate park. The trail represents an offering people of all ages -- including older adults -- can use. Since creating the trail, the age-friendly initiative has worked with partners to add benches, fitness equipment and a story walk along the route.

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