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)