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Giles Piercy from Locality Matters gave a presentation about their work with the White City Estate community in London. They have taken over running services like the community center and parenting programs. Locality Matters is also exploring taking on more services from the local council like social care, repairs, and reviews of all council services. Some key lessons they have learned include having a strong community leader, acquiring a community asset like the center, replacing rather than augmenting existing services, improving branding and marketing, choosing attractive services to take over, and working from an asset-based view of the community's skills rather than focusing on deficiencies. Their goal is to empower the community to better deliver and manage local services.

Community of Youth has been operating for three years out of Lords Taverners Woodside youth club. Over the past year, they held several community events including a pensioners tea party, Halloween celebrations, a Christmas festival, and Coystock music festival which over 500 people attended. Sessions are run 3 hours per week and cover topics like health, relationships, and life skills. The 25 member Coyaction volunteer team plans events, runs sessions, recruits for the National Citizen Service, and engages in political and democratic activities. The group aims to expand music opportunities and has seen some members perform locally. Community of Youth expresses gratitude to its funders and supporters for enabling its youth programs.

The village of Ryburgh in Norfolk faced challenges as services closed down, including the primary school, shop, and youth club. In response, the community launched initiatives like a community-owned shop and post office, community car scheme, and work to improve play facilities. Future plans included expanding the community car scheme to nearby villages and a "Good Neighbours Project" to provide volunteer assistance to vulnerable individuals. The document outlines details of the Good Neighbours Project and how a similar initiative in other areas has benefited communities.

The document discusses the creation of bicycle cooperatives or "bike co-ops" as a way to encourage bicycling in communities. It provides an example of Bici Libre, a bike co-op in Los Angeles County that was started through a public health grant. Bici Libre collects abandoned bikes, refurbishes them, and distributes them to communities in need. It also teaches bike repair skills. The document outlines considerations for establishing a bike co-op, such as finding space, obtaining donated bikes, and organizing bike collection efforts.

This document discusses transforming India through promoting cycling. It outlines principles of cycling related to energy, equity, economics, ecology, emancipation, health and happiness. It discusses the philosophy of cycling in Vedic, Buddhist and Jain traditions. The vision is to transform urban India into happier habitats by enabling cycling and walking. A framework is proposed with the National Institute for Transforming India playing a key role along with the bicycle industry, urban ministry, and tourism ministry. Specific mission steps are outlined over multiple years to promote best practices, data collection, goal setting, funding, and transit shift strategies for cities.

This document summarizes the findings of a 2013 bicycle and pedestrian count in Los Angeles and provides recommendations. The key findings are that bicycle ridership increased 7.5% since 2011, particularly where new bike lanes and sharrows were installed, and that people prefer dedicated bicycle facilities. The recommendations are to design streets for all ages and abilities, build a network of protected bikeways, engage communities in street design, increase bicycle safety education, and measure results to inform transportation decisions.

Several cities around the world have implemented policies and initiatives to reduce car traffic and encourage alternative forms of transportation like biking and walking: - London introduced a congestion charge for driving in central London while increasing bus services to reduce car trips. - American cities are adding bike lanes to roads to reduce car trips and increase biking as a safe transportation option. - Bhaktapur, Nepal was designated a UNESCO heritage site for its traditional architecture and car-free streets. - Cartagena, Colombia launched a plan to convert its historical center to a car-free zone to preserve the area.

The document is a newsletter from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition that discusses the organization's accomplishments in 2012 and goals for 2013. Some of the key accomplishments in 2012 included building out bike lanes on Fell and Oak Streets, expanding the bike corral program, improving safety on Cesar Chavez Street, and repaving sections of Market Street. The Coalition also helped elect endorsed political candidates. In 2013, the Coalition aims to continue its "Connecting the City" campaigns to improve routes like Polk Street, Market Street, and the Embarcadero. It encourages members to participate in identifying other areas needing safety improvements.

Bike share is a region-wide program that allows the public to rent bicycles docked at self-service stations. You can access the bikes with a day pass or annual membership. Pick them up at one station and drop them off at another. Bike share serves both locals and visitors; a fun and healthy way to reach your destination. Bike share complements other forms of public transit and supports local businesses. Bike share is rolling in 500 cities worldwide with over 500,000 bikes. By the end of next year, 75 cities in North America will have a program, including our region! Coast Bike Share is Tampa’s community Bike Share Program. Residents and visitors will have access to 300 public bicycles distributed throughout downtown, Ybor City, and Hyde Park. Use the bikes to commute to work, do errands, visit friends, or just for fun! Bike Share will enhance transportation options by making it possible to quickly access a public bicycle near places of employment, tourist destinations, educational institutions, and transit stops. The program seeks to encourage bicycle usage as an environmentally-friendly and congestion reducing transportation option.