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Thank you so much! We’ll use these funds to keep pushing our mission forward! 🙏

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Trailnet memberships make great gifts, & start at just $55! When you gift a membership, you’re helping make our streets safer & more connected for everyone!

Each membership includes:
• A Trailnet t-shirt 
• 2 free ride vouchers for Classics rides
• 1-year subscription to Terrain magazine

As you gather w/loved ones, travel across the city, or explore your neighborhood in the days ahead, we ask you to take extra care on the streets. Please drive thoughtfully, stay alert, & look out for one another. Thank you for being part of this community & for helping make St. Louis safer for all.

We are profoundly grateful for our members, supporters, partners, volunteers, and neighbors. Your trust fuels this mission and helps us build a St. Louis where everyone can move freely and confidently, no matter how they get around.

We’re also laying the groundwork for our 2026 Rides Season and continuing to advocate for investments that make streets safer for everyone.

Over the past few months, our team has been deeply engaged in developing School Mobility Plans, advancing our REACH grant work in Promise Zone neighborhoods, and beginning the 2025 Crash Report.

A cyclist rides down a tree lined street in Carondelet Park. The leaves have turned a vibrant red.

As we go into this season of thankfulness, we’re reflecting on the many ways our community shows up for one another. At Trailnet, some of our work is joyful & celebratory, and much of it happens quietly, through planning, research, collaboration, & conversations that move us toward safer streets.

Bicycle Safety Rodeo Registration/Waiver By giving consent for your child to participate in the bicycle safety rodeo, you understand and agree that you are waiving and releasing all rights and claims you may have against Trailnet and/or thei...

We’re teaming up with Tower Grove Park for a FREE Bike Rodeo on Sat. 11/15 from 10am–noon at the Roman Pavilion!
Perfect for kiddos of all ages (especially beginners) to practice braking, turning, & balance, + build confidence on 2 wheels. Bring your child’s bike and RSVP: bit.ly/TGPbikerodeo

A father and son cross a freshly painted crosswalk as part of a pop up demonstration. The father has his arm around his son.

Forms for collecting feedback about the traffic calming pop, on a table

Blue paint as part of a traffic pop up demonstration, painted in the shape of a bump out, with a book painted in yellow, that says "Be Kind, Read more." Also the name of the school in front of the popup is painted in yellow: Nance.

Parents slowed down. Neighbors stopped to learn more. Kids walked with confidence.

It showed what’s possible when we design for people, not just cars: connection, not chaos.

A adult walking two school-age children across a crosswalk. A man in a high visibility safety vest walks them across with a stop sign in his hand. Another man is walking crossing the opposite direction.

A child is painting with yellow paint on some temporary paint for a traffic pop up, demonstrating how a crosswalk would make the community safer.

A gold and blue sign that says: Riverview Traffic Calming Pop-Up Demonstration. Wednesday, October 15 2-5pm. PlanSTL and Baden North Pointe Neighborhood Planning.

Every child deserves to walk, roll, and ride to school safely.

Last week, we joined Baden-North Pointe Neighborhood Planning and community volunteers to show what that safety could look like — with freshly painted crosswalks, bump-outs, and a bike lane right outside an elementary school.

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Safe Routes to School Update - Trailnet For the last year, Trailnet has been leading a federal grant called Safe Routes to School. One year later, we’d like to provide an update to our community. Engineering, Education, …

We hope that the plans we co-create with school communities will drive similar change to improve the lives of students and families for generations to come. trailnet.org/2025/10/08/s...

These school mobility plans help prioritize funding for safer street design projects and drive school policy changes to keep students safer. For example, our last plan for Froebel Elementary helped influence the City of St. Louis to build its first Calm Street on Louisiana Avenue.

We're excited to make even more progress next year now that we’ve added a new team member to lead the creation of school mobility plans!

We’ve hosted 2 bike safety rodeos for kids at Hickey Elementary School, helped with bike buses to City Garden Montesorri, conducted walk audits around 3 school campuses, and now we're creating a school mobility plan for City Garden.

1 year down, 2 to go! A year ago, we started working on a federally funded Safe Routes to School project. Since then, we’ve faced some setbacks, but we're proud of the progress we’ve made.

The work continues.

The vision is clear.

Together, we’ll build a safer St. Louis for all.

To our partners, supporters, and community: thank you. Your voices, stories, and advocacy make this movement strong.

We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse coalition of advocates and organizations around a single goal: ending traffic violence. We may have different tactics and approaches to advocacy. Instead of focusing on our differences, we choose to focus on our shared vision.

developing plans for safer walking and biking routes to school and funding partner-run bike buses and Earn-A-Bike classes through a Safe Routes to School grant.

equipping neighborhood organizations with tools to advocate for lasting change and empowering residents to engage with the processes that shape our streets for decades to come.

That’s why we’re continuing the work. Trailnet will continue to leverage our expertise in planning, advocacy, and education to prevent traffic violence by…

partnering with Promise Zone communities to co-create safer streets.

Solving it requires comprehensive action: better infrastructure, equitable policy, community partnership, and cultural change.

Traffic violence is not the result of individual choices alone — it’s a systemic issue rooted in street design, policy decisions, and which communities have historically been prioritized or overlooked.

But the fight doesn’t end here.

Traffic violence continues to devastate lives across our region. Every person injured or killed on our streets is one too many.

Hope in the midst of tragedy is not a crime. It’s what sustains us — and what propels us forward.

Hope is resistance.

Because in the face of loss, anger, and inequity, choosing to believe in a better future — and to celebrate every step toward it — is an act of courage.

We joined forces with two disability rights organizations for Accessibility by Design: Crafting Complete Streets for All, a workshop on Complete Streets and how we can all better advocate for improved accessibility in transportation infrastructure.

Our annual Juneteenth Ride transformed into a powerful volunteer activation, as we worked with three organizations to bring food, water, hope, and joy to tornado-stricken communities.

We convened 23 businesses and organizations to celebrate Bike to Work (or Wherever) Day, to show our region how taking alternative transportation can better connect us to our communities.

This collaboration didn’t start with Week Without Driving, and it won’t end there either. Earlier this year…

Four organizations stood with us to present the Transportation Infrastructure Mayoral Forum, to empower and educate voters.