Walk, roll, connect: Active Transportation Plan update now underway

By Barb Chamberlain

When individual asks you to get concerned in a planning job — particularly a long-range statewide job — you may surprise why you ought to bother, considering the fact that real swap is a lengthy method down the road. Why ought to you care sufficient to take a 10-minute survey at the state Active Transportation Plan replace by means of capability of June 30, 2019?



A few reasons:

Because decisions about how and the place of us ought to be capable to walk, use their wheelchair, or journey a bicycle conveniently and appropriately soar with you telling us that topics to you.
Because nothing will get funded, designed, and constructed with out being in a few plan, somewhere. (This capability you ought to get concerned on your native and regional plans, too — we soar with those.)
Because our state plan shapes how we work with our companions within the cities and areas the place you stay and transfer round each day, and can assist us agree on shared priorities.
This survey is for anybody who makes use of transportation — that capability you. We ask about your transportation behavior and what you worth in a gadget that may work properly for everybody – no subject the place they live, how a lot cash they make, or how age or disability may have an effect on how they use transportation.
As a multimodal agency, it’s important for us to create safe transportation facilities for all users.

How do I get involved or get more information?

ATP E-news: This occasional e mail will inform you what’s going on subsequent within the planning job and invite you to take destiny surveys. We inspire you to subscribe here.



WSDOT Walk and Roll Active Transportation e-news: Information 2-3 instances a month on a broad differ of subjects comparable to lively transportation in Washington state, adding grants, tuition opportunities, and technical data besides data at the Active Transportation Plan. Be certain to subscribe for Walk and Roll here.



On social media: Use the #WSDOTactive tag to discover data you'll be able to share.
We’re looking to improve our transportation system to provide safe travels for all modes of transportation.

On the web: Information and all language types of the survey, adding Spanish, Russian and others, is also linked on our Active Transportation Plan website. You will even discover subscription hyperlinks for ATP E-News and WSDOT Walk and Roll at the website.



Request material or presentations: Let us recognize in the event you happen to need a few flyers to publish or hand out, desire to request a speaker if one may be made available, or will volunteer as a network ambassador to unfold the word.



What IS energetic transportation, anyway?



If you’re nonetheless wondering what we imply by energetic transportation, it’s utilizing an energetic potential of journey similar to walking, cycling or skateboarding to get from one region to another. Almost everybody makes use of energetic transportation at a few level in a trip, regardless of even if strolling to a bus stop, bicycling to work or rolling residence from a ferry terminal.



What’s the schedule?



The survey will pass by potential of June 30, 2019. The plan is scheduled for completion in December 2019. You’ll have a danger to assessment and remark at the draft plan; signal up for our e-news to get hold of announcements.

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