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Action Intersection: Where Your Voice Moves the Community Forward

Every voice counts. This a place to turn your support for cycling into real change. Explore ways to connect with local leaders, share your perspective, and help shape policies that make Greater Grand Rapids a safer, more vibrant place to ride. Together, we can influence the decisions that build a stronger, more bike-friendly community.

Help us create a great place to ride a bicycle by contacting the decision-makers that shape our environment. This page is the “Action Intersection”—a list of ways that you can engage and influence the people that matter.

Bicycle Advocacy 101

Understand how better street design and policy shape a safer, more connected Grand Rapids. Explore key plans, design guides, and resources to power your bike advocacy.

City & Local Strategy

City of Grand Rapids Bicycle Action Plan — The city’s recommendations to support bicycling year-round and create high-quality bicycling facilities.

Vital Streets Design Guidelines — Grand Rapids’ standards for streets that balance the needs of cyclists, pedestrians, transit riders, and motorists.
Grand Rapids Strategic Plan — The City Manager’s plan to improve infrastructure.

Design & Infrastructure Principles

Urban Bikeway Design Guide — A best-manual widely adopted for safe, comfortable bike infrastructure.

Dutch Cycling Embassy — Learn form one of the world’s top cycling nations how design, policy and culture come together.

Research & Resources

People for Bikes Research Page — Data and studies showing how biking investments generate returns.

Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center — Determined to improve the quality of life in communities through the increase of safe walking and bicycling.
Bike Advocacy Playbook — Step‑by‑step guide for how citizens can influence local policy and infrastructure.
Transportation Research and Education Center — a multidisciplinary hub for all things transportation.