Other Effective Programs Pt. 1: TA Traffic Monitoring Kit

The local SLC efforts in building up a better environment for cycling have been impressive, it's great to witness those developments and their effects in the community. Beyond the local, however, there are a lot of different tactics and efforts out there in the advocacy world that we can keep our eyes on, for implementation in the future.

Today Transportation Alternatives' Neighborhood Traffic Monitoring Kit caught my eye. It's an impressive and enabling document that lays out in step-by-step terms the civic and research actions that can be taken to improve a problematic area of city infrastructure. New York City's civic structure is complicated and comprehensive and this kit helps activists navigate that with specific examples. The specifics may not be relevant to Salt Lake, but we would do well to learn from the comprehensive tactics of assessing a problem area, notifying community liaisons within the Department of Public Safety, scientifically recording data, and presenting it though a variety of information outlets. The toolkit can be downloaded here, an example of this system being used to good effect can be read about here.

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