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Resource Sheet 6: Ten Things Your Pedestrian Group Can Do

  1. Each member should commit a certain percentage of your energies to pedestrian issues. Do not be overwhelmed. An hour a week, every week, could make a great difference, especially multiplied by each member of your group.
  2. Organize educational seminars in your neighborhood for interest groups to discuss pedestrian issues. Ask other organizations to provide you with programs and guidance.
  3. Let your local planning and engineering staff and elected officials know that your organization exists and get on their mailing list for transportation-related matters, including meeting announcements and agendas.
  4. Write letters to city, county, state and federal officials about your pedestrian concerns and offer suggestions for ways to address them. Or try writing to the editor of your local newspaper.
  5. Write to a television or radio station and request programs about pedestrian issues. Prepare a two-minute statement about being a pedestrian and call it in to a local radio or television talk show.
  6. Arrange or attend demonstrations for pedestrian rights. Get a large group of people together to walk, carry signs, or distribute materials with pedestrian slogans and information. At least a week before you demonstrate, send a press release to the local media describing the event. Invite television news teams to join you.
  7. Attend government hearings to express opinions about pedestrian issues and legislation.
  8. Become campaign workers for a ballot measure or bill that affects pedestrians. Campaign for a politician who actively supports pedestrian goals.
  9. Ask members to become experts on one aspect of being a pedestrian and become a resource for others. Offer your members as speakers to groups.
  10. Walk whenever you can and get others to walk with you.

Adapted from an article by Nancy Christie, Board Member, Willamette Pedestrian Coalition, published in Walk Tall: A Citizen's Guide to Walkable Communities, Rodale Press, Pedestrian Federation of America, 1995.

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