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Join us for a workshop to learn about Go.Human and available resources. Get strategies, resources, and tools to promote safer walking and biking. Share successes and positive impacts. Provide feedback and suggestions for improvement. Discover why active transportation is important.
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Go Human:Fostering Local Champions Date Presenter name and organization to be added
Workshop Goals Provide familiarity with Go Human and available resources Introduce strategies, resources and tools to enable you to promote safer walking and biking Inspire action through sharing successes and positive impacts Getting Feedback, are the resources useful, what else do you need?
Why is Active Transportation important? • Nearly everyone is a pedestrian at some point in the day • Biking dramatically increases mobility for those without a motor vehicle • Provides low cost, low impact options that can help to roadway congestion and expand transit ridership • Safety is a major issues for pedestrians and cyclists
Campaign Objectives • Reduce collisions, create safer streets • Increase use of active transportation (walking & biking) • Reduce greenhouse gases • Improve public health • Support the ActiveTransportation Program andother active transportationinvestments • Change the reputation of the region
Advertising Campaign *Informed by analysis of crash data in “hot-spots.”
Open Streets & Demonstration Projects – Engaging Communities
Project Summary Toolkits and Trainings – Empowering Champions
User Panels The Toolbox Resource
Approach and Schedule Foster Championsand Create Partnerships
Approach and Schedule Improve our Quality of Life through Active Transportation
Find Funding Approach and Schedule
Secure Funding Approach and Schedule
Collect Data Approach and Schedule • Bike Audits • Speed of mode • Riding with traffic • Parking • Walk Audits • Safety and lighting • Crossing points • Sense of place, urban design and wayfinding
Use Existing Data Approach and Schedule • Build a case for active transportation that: • Considers imminent safety threats to bicyclists and pedestrians • Identifies broader community health concerns that are related to active transportation • Takes into account the current state of walkability/bikeability • Identifies detailed, site-specific concerns as well as the current state of use.
Create a Story The Steer Davies Gleave Team
Use Media to Tell Your Story The Steer Davies Gleave Team
Walk Riverside: Walkability Plan Approach and Schedule
Beach Cities Health District‘Blue Zones’ Project Approach and Schedule
Keep in Touch! The Steer Davies Gleave Team www.GoHumanSoCal.org /GoHumanSoCal @GoHumanSoCal #GoHumanSoCal Julia Lippe-Klein - LippeKlein@scag.ca.gov