Safe Streets Save Lives

The Safe Streets Save Lives project is the first initiative of its kind that is working towards reducing the number of automobile//bicycle crashes and deaths on South Carolina roads. This project represents a public and private partnership in South Carolina striving for the improved safety of all bicyclists on the state’s roadways. This is a long-term investment for the betterment of South Carolina and all of its residents—when roads improve for the safety of bicyclists, they become safer for all users. We can, and will, get there together.

The charge of the Safe Streets project is success through teamwork and collaboration. The Project Team leading the Safe Streets mission includes two of South Carolina’s most prominent bicycle advocacy organizations, which together have decades of success and many important milestones to empower future efforts. The Palmetto Cycling Coalition (PCC) formed in 1998 and has since been striving for a more bicycle friendly South Carolina through advocacy and education. MyBikeLaw was formed in 2000 under the direction of Peter Wilborn, whose goal is be a resource to other families that have also been affected by a bicycle tragedy.

After leading the 2008 success with the reform to SC’s bicycle traffic laws, the PCC partnered with MyBikeLaw to host over a dozen bicycle safety workshops and implement other efforts within communities around the state. In 2010, the Project Team set their sights on a long-term strategic bicycle safety campaign for South Carolina, and so Safe Streets Save Lives was born.