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H-ai Bikeable Community Workshop The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota (BikeMN) are partnering to provide Bikeable Community Workshops to interested communities. The workshop is taught by a combination League Cycling Instructors (LCIS) from MDH, MnDOT, and BikeMN. What is a Bikeable Community Workshop? A Bikeable Community Workshop trains local, county and regional staff, community leaders and advocates on how to plan and support more Bike Friendly Communities to encourage more people to be on bikes more often in Minnesota. Through discussion, presentations and a short on -bike mobile workshop, participants assess their community's bicycle facilities to base an action plan on. Target audiences for the workshop include engineers, law enforcement, planners, public health practitioners, school administrators, elected officials, community leaders and advocates. Participants in this training will be able to: 1. Describe how the 6 Es (equity, engineering, education, enforcement, encouragement, and evaluation) can improve the safety of bicycling in communities. 2. Explain Minnesota's traffic laws related to bicycling. 3. Recognize the importance of collaboration and the roles other professions and community members have in supporting bicycling in communities. 4. Apply effective strategies in communities to facilitate bicycling as an easy, safe, and healthy option with available resources. Communities participating in the training have the opportunity to learn more about how to achieve the following outcomes: - Development of pedestrian/bicycle/transportation master/ SRTS plan - Policies and ordinances that support walking and bicycling - Ability to affect the systems that cities/counties use to build safe walking and bicycling facilities MDH, MnDOT, and BikeMN will offer a limited number of Bikeable Community Workshops in Minnesota in 2017 between mid-May through mid-July. Communities are eligible if they have not had a Bikeable Community Workshop in the past. If you feel your community is a great candidate for the workshop, please briefly respond to the following questions: • Explain how your community would benefit from a Bikeable Community Workshop? • Explain any experience your community has with planning, policies, ordinances, and implementing active transportation projects, including but not limited to, complete streets, non -motorized infrastructure, and safe routes to school. • Explain how your community plans to act on possible recommendations from the workshop with the goal of increasing bicycling and walking? • Tell us about your diverse partners and stakeholders that will be attending the workshop. One participant must be an engineer. All attendees are expected to participate in the mobile workshop. • Describe inequities around active living and active transportation that affect your community and how you have been addressing them. What challenges are you encountering?