The first step in forging connections through walking is making accessible marketing. By building our presence in the city, we’re creating natural and seamless integration into people’s daily lives. But we take it a step further than just advertising our organization and our mission.

We want to help get people involved by providing functional services around the city. While the walkable roads we have are great, we recognize the importance of building up new infrastructure to support alternate modes of transportation. That’s why we’re continuing to work with local and state governments to get funding for new sidewalks and other walking paths. First introduced in the Walk Fort Wayne plan, we’re continuing development in each area of the city that needs it most. 

With all these new connections being made, we believe that ease of use should be a top priority. To further this goal, we’re working to place navigational signs around the city. Each color denotes a region of Fort Wayne, and each shape denotes the type of road. Included on the signs as well are the street names and nearby places of interest. Square shape signs indicate the most major throughfares, with the most connection points and places of interest. Circles represent the secondary level of roads, with less places of interest, and less foot traffic. Diamonds represent tertiary roads and other minor connection points. We’re also trying to integrate this system with the trail network in our city, while also denoting their unique classification. So keep an eye out for these guides as they help you Find Your Wayne.