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Connecting the Dots: OC Residents Get Crash Course in Transportation-Housing-Food Access
Alliance for a Healthy Orange County created a training program for residents and advocates to learn skills and knowledge about housing, transportation, and access to healthy food. Trainees can then will share the information with their networks.
August 9, 2017
O.C. Summer Leadership Academy Offers Training on Active Transportation, Housing, Food Access
The Leadership Academy on Sustainable Communities aims to equip residents and community leaders to be the next generation of leaders in Orange County on active transportation, transit housing affordability, and food access.
June 30, 2017
Santa Ana is Having a Roundabout Renaissance
The City of Santa Ana public works department has been busy the first half of the year installing street improvements on the city's west side. Between March until roughly last month, nine roundabouts were installed along three street corridors.
June 29, 2017
“Hack for Health” Invites Residents to Build an App for a Healthy North Orange County
Hack for Health is sponsoring a contest to come up with the best local health-related app. Six finalists have been chosen, and this Saturday they will work with developers to bring their ideas to life.
June 21, 2017
Orange County Residents Get to Test Planned Bike/Ped Trail Connections
An Active Streets event on Saturday called Connect the Loop created a pop-up demonstration of two street improvement projects, including a two-way parking-protected bike lane, giving residents an opportunity to try them out and weigh in on what works and what doesn't.
June 13, 2017
Santa Ana Safe Mobility Campaign Launches
A local community-based organization in Santa Ana launched a safe mobility campaign today that is aimed at improving pedestrian and vehicle safety. Santa Ana residents will lead the outreach and education effort.
June 9, 2017
OC’s Store-Front Bicycle Co-op Reopens in Santa Ana
The Bicycle Tree in Santa Ana was a victim of its own success, and rapidly running out of room. So it closed in March, to give it time to move to a bigger place. This Saturday it will re-open at its new address, 702 West 17th Street.
June 6, 2017
Community Groups Showcase Disease Prevention at Orange County Forum
Orange County received $4.1 million from the CDC to support government, education, and nonprofit entities working in Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Anaheim on disease prevention. The projects that came out of these partnerships ranged from traditional—nutrition education and physical activity promotion—to boldly forward-thinking—funding the installation and design of a bicycle boulevard.
May 31, 2017
Bike Month: OCTA’s Annual Bike Rally
More than thirty cyclists came out to OCTA's Bike Rally Thursday morning at Orange Station. The roughly 3.5-mile route cut through Old Town Orange using side streets and the Santiago River Trail Bike Path.
May 19, 2017
BTWD in Orange County Showcases Santa Ana Bike Infrastructure Successes
Caltrans hosted its own Bike to Work Day in Santa Ana to showcase some of the work it's doing to improve biking infrastructure in downtown.
May 17, 2017
