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RESOLUTION NO. 08-246 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON, ENDORSING THE ALAMEDA COUNTY ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN WHEREAS, Alameda County's Countywide Bicycle Plan and Countywide Strategic Pedestrian Plan include the following goals that support active transportation: 1) Increase the number and percentage of walking trips with the intention of reducing motor vehicle use, preserving air quality, and improving public health; 2) Improve pedestrian safety, especially for the young, elderly, and disabled; 3) Ensure that essential pedestrian destinations throughout Alameda County -particularly public transit -have direct, safe and convenient pedestrian access; 4) Complete the San Francisco Bay Trail and paved inter-jurisdictional East Bay Regional Park District trail systems that serve populated areas in Alameda County; 5) Maximize the amount of funding for pedestrian projects, programs and plans in Alameda County, with an emphasis on implementation; 6) Create and maintain an inter-county and intra-county bicycle network that is safe, convenient and continuous; 7) Increase the potential for bicycle transportation by closing gaps in existing bikeways; 8) Encourage policies and actions that foster bicycling as a mode of travel, and; WHEREAS, nearly half of all trips for personal transportation in the United States are three miles or less in length, and thirty percent of all trips in the San Francisco Bay Area are one mile or less making biking and walking a healthy alternative for a significant portion of daily trips; and WHEREAS, bicyclists and pedestrians represent 9% of all personal trips nationwide (14% in Alameda County), and 14% of all traffic fatalities in the United States (over 23% in Alameda County), yet receive less than 1% of all federal road spending; and WHEREAS, the above disparity indicates an opportunity to produce a substantial shift to these healthy, non-motorized transportation modes; and WHEREAS, federal legislation, SAFETEA-LU, in 2005 created the Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program for the construction of a network of non-motorized transportation infrastructure facilities in four urban communities to demonstrate the extent to which bicycling and walking can carry a significant part of the transportation load and play a major role in transportation solutions; and WHEREAS, the four communities were selected to each receive grants of $25 million over four years to participate in the Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program; and