The PedNet Coalition, along with the City of Columbia, the University of Missouri and Columbia Public Schools, and many other partners have teamed up to create "Bike, Walk, Wheel: A Way of Life in Columbia." The project aims to encourage healthier lifestyles by making physical activity part of daily life.

The project focuses on a four-square-mile urban area adjacent to downtown Columbia, and the primary focus will be on children and their families in a working class area. The three main programming elements are Walking School Buses, youth Physical Activity Challenge, and city-wide public health Communications Campaign.

Traffic calming sidewalks and "flag crosswalks" near area schools are safety improvements being pursued to improve the bike and pedestrian infrastructure. A second-hand bicycle repair and distribution program will be implemented and pedestrian maps to routine destinations will be created and distributed. Advocacy efforts include: upgrading bicycle/pedestrian standards for new streets, improving public funding for sidewalks on existing strees and in the vicinity of schools and expanding on specific improvements to the main Broadway arterial that bisects the target project area.

The youth Physical Activity Program will be developed to include mentored youth service projects and after-school recreation programs. Other community projects include neighborhood beautification, crime reduction and increased awareness of the benefits of physical activity.

This organization was one of 25 demonstration projects selected by Active Living by Design, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Columbia was also one of four communities to be selected as part of the new federal Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program.