bike talk - Deborah Murphy gets great bike infrastructure funded. With Hilary Norton

Deborah Murphy, Urban Design + Planning Principal Active Transportation Planner/Designer and Grant Coordinator, Los Angeles Walks Founder and Hilary Norton, chair of the California Transportation Commission and Executive Director of FASTLinkDTLA, a Transportation Management Organization (TMO) for Downtown Los Angeles, and veteran rida Don Ward talk about Deborah's amazing success with getting over $278 million in grant funds for active transportation, new parks/open space and sustainable cities projects in the past 13 years. Deborah and Hilary focus in particular on the record breaking $31 million ATP grant for “Connecting Canoga Park” which Deborah worked on and the CTC approved. It was the largest monetary award in the ATP’s history. https://cal.streetsblog.org/2021/02/09/active-transportation-program-cycle-5-staff-recommendations-released/ Hilary and Deborah also talk about the CTC's request for $2 billion in Active Transportation funds for bike highways. https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/programs/atp/2021/ctc-atp-augmentation-proposal-for-website-a11y.pdf