About Active Transportation

There is no time like the present to reconsider how people move from place to place in our community. Environmental concerns, high rates of obesity and chronic diseases, issues of land use and economic development prompt us to ask important questions:

• Is it easiest to go by car?
• Is it safe to commute on a bicycle?
• Are destinations within reach if you are walking?
• Is public transit coordinated with biking and walking routes?

The answers to these questions frame a concept called Active Transportation, which refers to "human-powered" transportation.

When a community is built to make the healthy choice - Active Transportation - the easy choice, we all benefit. Community members are often healthier, communities are safer, our environmental impact is reduced, and economic development is supported by communities coming together to ensure they live, work, shop, and play within distances they can reach using Active Transportation.

With support from the Northwest Health Foundation, Community Choices created an Active Transportation Team. The team’s goal is to identify a strategy for ensuring Active Transportation advocates are "at the table" when our community makes decisions regarding transportation planning, land use, economic development. The team includes representatives from school districts, public health, health care, planners from the county and cities, public works, transportation services, public transit, parks and recreation, and private business. Because so many diverse sectors of the community play a role in increasing options for Active Transportation, it is a good fit to bring a variety of expertise and resources into the process.

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