Bike Walk Tompkins

Bike Walk Tompkins promotes active transportation—biking and walking—in Tompkins County. Having grown out of the group that first organized Streets Alive! Ithaca, Bike Walk Tompkins (BWT) works collaboratively with many other organizations to influence and change the culture and infrastructure for biking and walking in Ithaca and Tompkins County. This work enables more people to embrace active transportation in their everyday lives, helping our community reap multiple and significant health, environmental, economic and social benefits.

Bike Walk Tompkins organizes and puts on the twice-a-year signature program Streets Alive! Ithaca, which brings community members of all backgrounds together for a celebratory day of walking, biking, rolling, dancing and playing in car-free streets. BWT is also creating and facilitating the Blueprint for Better Bicycling, mapping a path to doubling the number of bike trips in and around Ithaca. BWT is a local contact for Lime bikeshare, passing critical information between Lime and our community. BWT runs bike skills classes for both adults and kids, organizes the Ithaca Bike Champions community outreach program, hosts films, organizes rides, and much more!

BWT has been generously funded in part by the Park Foundation and is part of the Center for Community Transportation (CCT), an Ithaca-based non-profit with the mission of enhancing community access to transportation while reducing its negative environmental and economic impacts. The CCT, which includes Ithaca Carshare and Backup Ride Home, emphasizes social equity and environmental sustainability in this era of new transportation options and emerging mobility trends. The CCT envisions a community where travel by shared and active transportation is healthy, safe, affordable, and convenient for all.

For more information, please visit bikewalktompkins.org and the-cct.org