LOCAL MOTION

Local Motion was founded in Columbia, Missouri in 2000 as a grassroots, membership-based transportation advocacy organization. Local Motion has a strong track record of successful policy and infrastructure campaigns for walking, biking, and transit. We have achieved local advocacy wins for sidewalks, bike lanes, intersection improvements, bike boulevards, and public transit, and significantly influenced the development of Columbia's trail network... Local Motion is located on the ancestral land of the Kiikapoi (Kickapoo), Peoria, Kaskaskia, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Osage peoples... Local Motion pushed Columbia to adopt a Complete Streets policy (2004) that ensures that new streets and street renovations are designed for all forms of transportation, and a Vision Zero policy (2016) that sets a goal and strategy to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. Both policies were the first such policies in Missouri and among the first in the US. Local Motion has provided..

Primary location: Columbia United States