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4. Arrange for a bike ride or other type of “field trip” with Orange County Commissioners, law enforcement, Orange County staff, and local cycling advocates to allow all to see both the possibilities and the obstacles that exist for cycling on rural county roads. 5. Have a county-wide contest to produce PSA posters or videos as a way to bring in citizen participation. Prepare a series of PSAs to air on local radio and television stations and in the local newspapers, and as posters around Orange County, as have been promoted in other locations: See sample posters in Appendix A. Contact the Journalism school at UNC to see if they would be interested in helping create these spots and helping us determine the correct venues for placing them. 6. Meet with the regional director of Active Routes to School and with school PE instructors to be sure they are aware of the Bike and Pedestrian Safety program available on NCDOT’s website. 5 7. Support BikeWalk NC in its efforts to produce a statewide online education class6 that could be utilized in Driver’s Ed classes, and in classes for driving offenders that are seeking to reduce points on their insurance. A component for the younger age groups who are mainly pedestrians is also planned. 8. Utilize national resources such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,7 People for Bikes,8 and the Alliance for Biking and Walking9 for materials that can be used locally. 9. Create and promote an interactive wiki map that cyclists and motorists can use to identify spots that need attention to improve safety. (The map could be referenced on all of the posters and other PSAs.) 10. Examine bicycling in Orange County as an economic development tool by sending a local staff person (or someone from Orange County Visitors Bureau) to the Bicycle Tourism conference in San Diego, CA, being held Nov. 4–7 in 2015.10 11. Pursue a tourism (or other) grant to fund bicycling safety and share the road public service announcements on popular local AM/FM radio stations. 12. Include a line item in the budget for county funding to use as grant-matching funding. 13. Improve bicycle infrastructure in the community. Instruct staff to review with the OUTBoard roads that are scheduled for resurfacing and recommend 4-foot shoulders on roads identified as rural bikeways. 14. Explore lowering speed limits on some rural county roads to 40 mph. Begin with a pilot on Dairyland Road. This reduction in speed was recently approved by NCDOT for a small section of Old 86 (from Calvander to the Carrboro Town Limit). 15