Our mission is to build connections with neighbors to create lively, welcoming, and safe streets through small-scale community events, advocacy, and education.
We envision a Lexington where streets are vibrant public places that bring people together and provide many safe and accessible transportation options.
Our Team
We’re a group of Lexington residents advocating for safer, more vibrant streets.
Officers
Linda Froehlich
President
Linda Froehlich hails from Kentucky, but grew up in Germany, where she enjoyed early on the freedom of getting around by bike and bus. (Ask her about her great Odyssey at age five!) After a career of teaching languages, she now focuses her efforts on community building by volunteering as Front Desk person for The Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop, as ambassador for the Good Foods Co-op, and as bike, pedestrian and transit advocate with Living Streets Lexington.
Ford McElroy
Secretary
Ford McElroy moved to Lexington in 2020 for a mathematics PhD. Originally biking to school to forgo the cost of a parking pass, these rides eventually lead to a cascading chain of passions, from transportation equity all the way to relocalization. This has even manifested in their graduate research, where they developed an optimization model to help find locations for new bicycle facilities. Living Streets Lexington fits at both ends of the spectrum: an opportunity to improve physical transportation infrastructure and intangible social infrastructure simultaneously. In their free time, Ford trail runs at the Red River Gorge, organizes social rides, and volunteers at The Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop.
Mary Arthur
Treasurer
Mary Arthur is a retired Forest Ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky (UK), where she taught courses in forest ecology, ecosystem ecology and natural resources and trained many MS and PhD students for 30 years. She led the Natural Resources and Environmental Science undergraduate degree program for 10 years, co-founded the Urban Forest Initiative, and co-directed the Greenhouse Living-Learning Community. Mary’s current projects include serving on the Lexington, Kentucky Tree Week Planning team; co-leading a pro-democracy group called Gathering for Democracy, talking to people about the role of forests in global carbon cycling; and collaborating on the Climate Conversations team that developed the Climate Conversations card deck. Living Streets Lexington embodies the same horizontal activism and team-focused organizing favored by all of her current projects and has the potential to transform Lexington’s street one project at a time.
