Introducing our 2024-2026 Strategic Plan
After nearly eighteen months of brainstorming, listening, reflecting, and synthesizing, we're excited to share our new 2024-2026 Strategic Plan! Read more about the extensive strategic planning process and visit our website to see our updated mission, vision, and organizational values.
In addition to growing and expanding longstanding programs and events this plan marks the beginning of a new chapter for LSA, with six strategic goal areas focused on:
- Cultivating a thriving and sustainable organization;
- Building a movement for safer streets;
- Advocating for an accessible, reliable, and robust transit system;
- Ensuring "complete streets" is funded and implemented;
- Making the possible visible; and
- Cultivating the next generation of transportation advocates and leaders.
Join us in jump-starting this work by signing up to give monthly or making a one-time donation.
Your contribution will support the creation of quick-build and open streets trainings and manuals so that you and your neighbors can implement your own projects. It'll also help launch major campaigns like Vision Zero!
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Need some additional inspiration? We've included three fun, imaginative, and hopeful stories in our Reads + Resources section below. Get ready to be inspired and let's get to work making it happen here in Tucson!
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Share your input on how Tucson grows
Plan Tucson, the City of Tucson’s General Plan, is a long-range policy document that is central to defining the future of Tucson, addressing vital areas such as housing, transportation, climate action, and growth. The Plan Tucson team has drafted the Future Growth Scenario Map using data on infrastructural capacity, development trends, and community preferences. Tucsonans are invited to explore the draft scenario and share their thoughts via the interactive map and the accompanying survey. The survey will close on June 2.
We found the in-person version of this activity to be much more user-friendly compared to the online map. There will be in an in-person community forum on May 18, 10 AM - 12 PM at the Ward 2 office. For more info and to register, visit the Plan Tucson website.
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Attend an upcoming Tucson Norte-Sur event
Tucson Norte-Sur is a planning effort intended to facilitate Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD) along Tucson's first planned Bus Rapid Transit corridor spanning from Tohono T'adai Transit Center, through downtown Tucson and South Tucson to the Tucson International Airport.
The project team has been working on policy and program recommendations, including policies and actions aimed at encouraging more housing options near transit stops, preventing housing displacement, improving pedestrian connectivity, and more.
If you live, work or travel in the project area, we encourage you to attend one of the upcoming events and find out more about the draft recommendations:
Thursday, May 9 from 5-7 PM
S 10th Public Meeting
Southside Presbyterian Church
317 W 23rd Street
Tuesday, May 14 from 10 AM - 1 PM
South Tucson Business Forum
Sam Lena Library
1607 S 6th Avenue
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National Survey: Accessible Streetscapes for the Disability Community
A new survey created in collaboration with Smart Growth America, the International Parking & Mobility Institute, and the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund aims to collect the experiences of people with disabilities navigating our streets. This information will contribute to best practice guidelines illustrated in our upcoming Accessible Streetscapes Design Guide. Learn more about it here and take the survey now through May 24.
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Paris School Streets: Safe for Children, Safe for Everyone
Over the past decade, Paris has gone through a remarkable people-centric transformation, including massive investments in bike infrastructure leading to what some regard as a "cycling revolution" and restrictions of cars in places like the banks of the Seine River to create pedestrianized public spaces. Among these big changes has also been the creation of 180 "School Streets" as safe and less-polluted play spaces for children whose access to streets is often neglected since they don't drive. Check out this inspiring video to see how Paris has implemented these School Streets starting with pilot projects with temporary treatments and making them permanent as ideas got tested and community buy-in was established.
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French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in Paris
Copenhagen and Amsterdam have long been known as the mecca of bicycle-friendly cities. But Paris is doing something amazing—and rapidly! Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of transportation cyclists thanks to a massive, Mayor-led effort to reduce the number of parking places, restrict access by SUVs, and close some major roads to motorists. They're proving that it is possible to shift the way people get around and to do it in short order, it just takes the political will and vision to make it happen!
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Project Aims to Make Downtown Houston Zone More Walkable by 2026
There's some surprisingly good news coming out of a state where mega highways and super-sized trucks normally dominate. A project to turn a section of downtown Houston's Main Street into a pedestrian-friendly hub is expected to break ground in 2025. If they can do it there, we can do it here! Learn more about the project and start envision your favorite downtown Tucson streets as a haven for people on foot.
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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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