GMTMA Goes to “Green Get Together” 2022 Two weeks ago, on April 30, Greater Mercer TMA attended the Green Get Together held at Lawrence High School in Lawrence Township. The event was the culminating activity of Mercer County Sustainability [...]
This week we celebrated Air Quality Awareness Week. It marked the beginning of the ozone season, when the Greater Philadelphia region typically begins to experience poor air quality from high levels of ground-level ozone. This pollutant damages [...]
Every year in May we celebrate Bike Month. The League of American Bicyclists established May as National Bike Month in 1956. It’s a way to encourage safe bicycling for work, pleasure, and health. This year, we at GMTMA will be celebrating Bike [...]
This week we are celebrating Earth Day. This year’s theme is “Invest in our planet and build healthy cities, countries and economies.” The Earth Day 2022 theme is focused on engaging more than 1 billion people, governments, and institutions to [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines distracted driving as “any activity that diverts attention from driving, including talking or texting on your phone, eating and drinking, talking to people in your vehicle, fiddling with [...]
Episode 8 (Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Overcast/Pocket Casts) of our podcast, Mobility Minute covers some of the most important details about New Jersey’s plans for electric vehicle adoption. This episode covers incentives and benefits [...]
In keeping with our themes for the last few weeks, we’re writing about Spring safety this week. Spring is here and more and more adults and their children spend time outdoors, biking, walking, rolling, and skating. It’s great to see many people [...]
Making it Safe for All to Share the Roads in Mercer County Last week, we talked about some of our favorite walkable and bikeable places in Mercer County and Ocean County. You can read more about it here. In many communities, promoting and [...]
Improving Biking and Walking in Mercer County and Ocean County In 2017, 53% of Americans reported they would prefer to live in a walkable, bikeable neighborhoods than one with larger properties, but only eight percent of people in America [...]
There are only a few days left until we Spring Forward, which got us thinking about Step into Spring, our yearly campaign to encourage active transportation among school children. Why do we care about physical activity among school children? The [...]
