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How to Make Change Happen
- Building communities through transportation not transportation through communities
- Individual plans should be developed and harmonize overall
- Issue-‐oriented focus on “solvable problem”
- Build momentum through small wins
- Come up with lots of small ideas and do them/coming together
- Plan for incremental change
- Step-‐by-‐step on what lead to success
- Tie economic development better to solutions
- Depoliticize land use and transportation
- Establish indicators and Performance measures
- Require Healthy Community Analysis as part of land-‐use approvals
- Update standards
- Link transportation & healthcare
- Tactical urbanism, pedestrian safety
- Temporary solutions to show what improvements would look like
Collaboration and Engagement
- Cross-‐sectional collaboration team to work on solutions : a Healthy Community Partnership Network
- Stick together through implementation including funding
- Collection of interests to address
- Align values !
- Transition of leadership -‐ more actively engaged/broaden the perspective
- More citizen-‐based advocacy groups to keep decision makers in check
- Institutionalize inter-‐agency collaboration
- Figure out how to get people involved and motivated
- New thinking -‐ youth involvement
- Maximize agency coordination
- Listen more to pedestrians & cyclists
- Engage with HEAL active transportation subcommittee -‐Build & engage key stakeholders -‐ collaboration
- Community engagement -‐ Find examples in local communities to illustrate principles.
- Health & transportation educate, grassroot involvement; work on the local level
- Engage college and high school students
Education
- Experiential training for policy makers and planners
- More HIAS to inform policies and decisions
- Video tape kids in sketchy road traffic
- Develop toolkit
- Increased density education leads to change, gathers support
- Educate through interactive experiences
- Sell it Educating the youth
- Train young people to see value of options
- Transportation Education
- Educate! Marketing! Inform community
- Work through all schools
- Public outreach for car addiction
- Website featuring success stories
Funding
- Local options and tax authority, other new monies spent.
- Change federal funding from maintenance to multi-‐modal/active transportation investments. (Incorporate health aspect)
- Gas tax -‐ with a portion going to parks and recreation.
- Bike registrations
- Put money where the priorities are individual and agency wide
- Raise money to present facts through TV, Radio, Forums. Funding & government match public. Tie this data $ costs we are wasting we could be spending better. Current cost vs. Future cost problems.
- Reduce fees (creative funding)