Research snapshot · Transportation · 13 September 2026

Active transportation is accelerating across the country: 3 meetings on the record in 90 days

This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure: bike lanes, sidewalks, trails and traffic calming, and the committees and plans behind them.Our definition of the class.

Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 12 dated municipal records flagged as active transportation, spanning 9 municipalities across 2 states. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

ScopeAcross the countryMaine

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Source documents 3 of 4 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.

The story so far

The record starts in Maine, 5 October 2021. Since then 9 municipalities in 2 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Maine, Massachusetts hold 100% of the dated events between them.

The last 90 days put 3 meetings on the record, more than double the 1 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Town Council, Planning Board and Pepperell Park Ad Hoc Redesign Committee.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTownsStates
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025000
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026221
Mar 2026 to May 2026111
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)321

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The current quarter is the busiest on this page.

Where it is moving2 states

The same topic at different speeds in different states. A state's name opens its own page where one exists.
StateTowns on the recordMeetings, 90 daysLatest
Maine83 new on the record2026-09-11
Massachusetts lighter read102026-04-02

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

11 September 2026 · Scarborough, Maine Long Range Planning Committee

the document, on the town's own site Long Range Planning Committee - Sep 11 2026 — 2026-09-11

3 August 2026 · Biddeford, Maine Sustainability Commission

the meeting packet, on the town's own site Sustainability Commission 2026-08-03 — Sustainability Commission

2 April 2026 · Acushnet, Massachusetts

the minutes, on the town's own site AgendaCenter minutes

24 February 2026 · Brunswick, Maine

the agenda, on the town's own site 2-24-2026 Agenda.pdf

Companies on this record29 companies, 10 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Beals and Thomas, Inc.Acushnet
BradBiddeford
Brunswick-Topsham Land TrustBowdoinham
Casco Bay Trail AllianceFalmouth
CasellaBrunswick
CS Advisory BoardScarborough
Federal Dept of EnergyBiddeford
HBS SchoolBrunswick
Jean-Marie CaterinaScarborough
KiwanisAugusta
MayorBiddeford
Merrill EngineeringAcushnet
METROScarborough
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationScarborough
NouriaFalmouth
Nouria EnergyFalmouth
NRCMAugusta
Oasis clubSaco
PCLBScarborough
People Plus Senior Health FairBrunswick
Portland West groupScarborough
Schneider, Davignon and Leone, Inc.Acushnet
School Dept.Brunswick
SEDCOScarborough
Shops at Falmouth CenterFalmouth
SITECAcushnet
St. Lawrence & Atlantic (SLA)Falmouth
US Fish and Wildlife ServiceScarborough
UU churchSaco

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 4 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 13 September 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Each state's name above opens its own page. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Active transportation, across the country

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Across the country

Area

Transportation

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

9

with a dated document on this topic

States on the record

2

counted from the record

Earliest

5 October 2021

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

3 against 1 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

13 September 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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