Healthy Coastal Connections is a project of Smart Coast that is promoting Smart Walks to School, Complete Streets and Connectivity. The project will engage stakeholders, citizens and communities around the region to set goals and objectives to achieve over the next five years. It will create a critical mass of supporters to begin to improve mobility and build an integrated transportation system that accomodates all users. Click Here to become a "Friend" of HCC and show your support for a region that is walkable and bikeable.

Healthy Coast Week was held from May 2nd to May 8th and involved many events to bring attention to Complete Streets and the need to increase accessibility to the roadways for all users. Below is a report about all the events:

Healthy Coast Week Report

The month of May is about Biking to Work and when Smart Coast sent out a call to bike to work on May 21st the cyclists responded. Below is a report of those responses. Read what the cyclists endured to bike to work.

Friday, May 21 declared as Bike-to-Work Day

In October 2009, the staff of the National Center for Bicycling & Walking came to the coastal area of Alabama to assist Smart Coast in reviewing the ability of pedestrians and cyclists to use the roadways. The report below gives an overview of that visit.

National Bicycling and Walking Experts Visit Mobile