{"id":5,"date":"2015-12-18T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/about\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T21:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T02:27:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most Recent Posts<\/strong><br \/>\n<div class=\"display-posts-listing\"><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/?p=2645\">VDOT&#8217;s Support of Active Mobility Has Improved.  Here&#8217;s What&#8217;s Still Lacking.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">December 14, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">We submitted the following public statement in conjunction with Northern Virginia&#8217;s annual joint transportation agency public hearing held on October 20, 2025.\u00a0 It&#8217;s our succinct assessment of VDOT&#8217;s support for active mobility in 2025. Northern Virginia Joint Transportation Annual Public Hearing Held on October 20, 2025 with a November 3, 2025 Deadline for Written Comments [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/?p=2608\">Nine NoVA Advocacy Groups Seek Better Active Mobility Funding<\/a> <span class=\"date\">October 1, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">In March 2025, the Virginia House and Senate Transportation Committee Chairs asked the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) to review the findings from the Virginia Department of Transportation\u2019s (VDOT) 2024 Northern Virginia Bicycle and Pedestrian Network Study and recommend regional funding strategies for infrastructure identified in the study. VDOT&#8217;s study identified nearly 5,000 miles of [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>OUR PRIORITIES<\/strong><br \/>\nActive Prince William is presently focused on the following priorities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improving the transparency, public-input opportunities, equity, and sustainability of local and regional transportation infrastructure decisions, by advocating for citizen multimodal transportation advisory commissions in Prince William County, Manassas, and Manassas Park<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening agency active transportation and trail programs in Prince William County, Manassas, and Manassas Park<\/li>\n<li>Improving the safety of vulnerable road uses by establishing strategic and data-driven local <a href=\"https:\/\/visionzeronetwork.org\/about\/what-is-vision-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vision Zero<\/a> programs based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/NRSS\/SafeSystem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Systems Approach<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Improving local policies and standards for adequate bicycle parking accommodations at various types of community destinations<\/li>\n<li>Advancing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saferoutesinfo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Routes to Schools<\/a> programs<\/li>\n<li>Growing Active Prince William to become an effective and sustainable nonprofit advocacy organization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Recent Posts OUR PRIORITIES Active Prince William is presently focused on the following priorities: Improving the transparency, public-input opportunities, equity, and sustainability of local and regional transportation infrastructure decisions, by advocating for citizen multimodal transportation advisory commissions in Prince William County, Manassas, and Manassas Park Strengthening agency active transportation and trail programs in Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}