Organizing for access
đź’ˇ Begin with the goal of ensuring that people of all ages, incomes, abilities, and background can reach and connect with what they need while developing communities that provide the most value for their residents and visitors
What local government officials can do
- Establish a goal of “access to opportunity,” which centers human wellbeing and integrates transportation, housing, and land use in city policy
- Center infrastructure and programs to maximize walkability, bikeability, and transit, organized by measureable wellbeing goals
- Streamline community engagement processes for safety-enhancing transportation projects
- Establish maintenance and user fees to internalize the costs of driving directly to drivers, incorporating higher costs for higher impacts
- Update design and construction standards (“DCS”) to require wider sidewalks while improving safeguards to ensure full compliance with city code on sidewalks for new private construction and reconstruction of city streets
- Improve safeguards to minimize disruptions to access during periods of construction, especially for bicyclists and pedestrians
- Install red light enforcement cameras intersections, with robust firewalls to protect civil liberties, widely
Establish public reporting dashboard for serious injury and fatality traffic crashes - Incorporate space-efficient land use and transportation choices into climate action planning, and use that to drive greater investment towards compact-, walkable development
What other leaders can do
- Center access principles in planning
- Manage energy with an avoid-shift-improve hierarchy, seeking structural efficiency first, and seeking to get the most bang-for-buck with precious electrification resources
- Advocate for the above
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