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What's at stake in 2022
Thank you for supporting LSA through your gifts, time, and advocacy for great streets. Here’s what’s at stake in the year ahead:
- The City of Tucson is developing its Climate Action & Adaptation Plan. Transportation is a major source of greenhouse gas and therefore a key component of any plan to tackle climate change. We’ll be working closely with the City to ensure your values of equitable, reliable, multi-model transportation are central to the plan.
- Just this month, the Director of Tucson’s Department of Transportation & Mobility moved on to another city. We’ll be paying close attention to the hiring process, looking for every opportunity to voice your priorities and vision for Tucson’s streets so that whoever gets hired aligns with and champions that same vision.
- Proposition 407 – championed and approved by you – continues to affect transformational change to our roads with more projects being built and informed in 2022. We’ll keep you informed of every opportunity to learn about, engage with, and inform these projects. Through creative community engagement in partnership with the City, we’ll be working on the ground to ensure that diverse voices are included in this process.
- Two VERY important ballot initiatives, the City’s renewal or expansion of Prop 409 and/or RTA reauthorization, are being considered at this very moment. What gets adopted will get prioritized with funding and built. We’re paying close attention; following and navigating the conversations being had, so we can keep you in the loop on when and how to mobilize.
Join the effort by donating today and signing up for advocacy alerts.
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We're hiring a Community Engagement Coordinator
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Living Streets Alliance is seeking a creative, organized, collaborative, and resourceful team member to plan, implement, and document community engagement activities for multiple projects and initiatives. The team is excited to meet with someone who has local ties/roots, speaks either Spanish and/or local (Tucson-area) Indigenous language(s) fluently. The role includes community organizing, reporting, and joining an incredibly collaborative team.
The Community Engagement Coordinator will work on multiple initiatives focused on multi-modal transportation, climate action planning, and community-centered, place-based street transformations. Learn more about the position and apply now.
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Only a couple months left of Cyclovia Remix
To date, Living Streets Alliance has hosted 800+ people at pop-up events in parks, distributed over 100 bike light sets with Pima County Department of Environmental Quality, led 117 Tucsonans on bike rides, serviced 80 bikes in need of repair, and fitted and provided 85+ free helmets with the Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility in the last 3 months of Cyclovia Remix. Remix partner Pima County Health Department has been at three events and administered 300 vaccines.
Check out what December looked like with photos from our events. See what's going on in January while we highlight the Green at the Core Cyclovia Route we did back in 2016. This month, you'll find bike rides, dance parties, and virtual tours.
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Get involved with Cyclovia today!
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There are so many ways to support Cyclovia and Cyclovia Remix. Join us as a volunteer and you can help by doing outreach, leading rides or activities, staffing meetups, cleaning up a route, taking photos, promoting equity through advocacy, and so much more. Fill out a simple volunteer form to let us know what excites you and we'll get you plugged in!
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Andrew Street Bicycle Boulevard
Traffic Calming + Safety Improvements
Free ice cream + bike repair as you provide City of Tucson staff with your input on this corridor.
1/19 Wednesday 4:30 - 6:30 PM
Bristol Park
1/22 Saturday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Harriet Johnson Park
1/23 Sunday 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Swan Park
Visit the project website for more info.
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Andrew Street Bicycle Boulevard
Virtual Town Hall
1/20 Thursday 6 PM English, 7 PM Spanish
Online: RSVP Now
Phone: (213) 293-2303 (Conf. ID: 937 991 161#)
If you can't make one of the three outdoor Ice Cream Socials we listed above, tune into the Virtual Town Hall.
Visit the project website for more info.
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REACH COVID Info Session
1/27 Thursday 3 PM
Online: RSVP Now
Are you a local community group? The Pima County REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) Program is looking to partner with Action Groups to help guide and create culturally relevant information about COVID vaccinations. Spanish translation available. More information here.
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3-Mile Remix Ride to Himmel Park
1/30 Sunday 8:45 - 11:30 AM
Coffee Times >> Himmel Park
Family-friendly group bike ride exploring January’s “Green at the Core” Route. The ride will end in a free dance party outdoors in the park!
Meet us at Coffee Times on Speedway & Jones at 8:30 AM if you want to grab a coffee before we head out! Ride leaves at 9 AM.
Check out more details online.
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Cyclovia is back!
3/27 Sunday 9 AM - 3 PM
Downtown to South Tucson
Join us for our full day in-person event connecting downtown with the City of South Tucson along a five-mile loop of car-free streets.
Save the date and view the route.
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For additional events in January, visit our Cyclovia Remix Community Calendar.
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Want timely advocacy action alerts as they come up? Subscribe to our Action Alerts email list to stay updated between monthly newsletters.
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Lost in Translation
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"I am learning that language accessibility is very time consuming. I have already spent a considerable amount of effort searching for specific urban planning terminology in Spanish. My first go-to for information in Spanish is the city of Chicago’s official website."
{Image: John Greenfield/Streetsblog}
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Language swaps to diminish harm
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"Given the deep divides that exist between groups in the United States, understanding and empathy can be extremely challenging...Collectively, we have an opportunity and obligation to overcome these fissures and create spaces for understanding and healing."
{Image: AMA Equity Guide}
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City roadways need modernization not expansion
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"Needless to say things change in 15 years. We’re pretty sure the planners in 2006 didn’t foresee or plan for a recession, a pandemic, an insurrection or climate change."
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The mission of Living Streets Alliance is to advocate for a thriving Tucson by creating great streets for all of us.
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