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Success at the Summit!

WCCTAC Presented the

Go I-80 Transit Summit

May 11, 2006

And you rallied to the call!

THANK YOU FOR GIVING US YOUR OPINION ON TRANSPORTATION ISSUES IN WEST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY!!!

Youth speakers from the Hercules Teen Youth Council and Richmond High School Youth Together spoke clearly and passionately about what they wanted in a transportation system: lower fares/free passes, less crowded buses, more frequent buses, more late night and weekend service, more courteous drivers, better security on buses, kids acting more respectively and giving up their seats to senior citizens.

 

Agencies represented at the Transit Summit: WCCTAC, 511 Contra Costa, City of San Pablo, City of Hercules, City of Richmond, East Bay Bicycle Coalition, WestCAT, AC Transit, Street Smarts, Capital Corridor, Senator Perata, Water Transit Authority, Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, Hercules Teen Youth Council, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Richmond High School – Youth Together, West County Transportation Center, Contra Costa Transportation Authority, Enterprise Rideshare, Representative Ellen Tauscher, Contra Costa Health Services, Mark One, Contra Costa College – ASU, El Portal Garden Fellowship Club, Ditching Dirty Diesel – Asthma Program, Contra Costa Health Services

 

Four Reasons Why Citizen Involvement Is Important

from Keynote Speaker: Meeky Blizzard, Advisor for Livable Communities to Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Oregon

  • Citizens are the experts in their communities. They know how the community functions and what it needs. They know what their communities’ challenges are and what is likely to work there - or not.
  • Citizens are ‘generalists’ not specialists. Their lack of training as transportation professionals allows them to see the bigger picture - something that most technical experts often don’t have the time or inclination to explore. Because they tend to describe transportation problems more in terms of what their community needs, citizens can often offer broader solutions that may work better than the traditional transportation ‘fix.’ And they often have the ability to raise questions that elected officials or other governmental agencies don’t have the latitude to ask, offering an opportunity to move beyond the status quo without putting an elected official’s - or staff member’s - office or job at risk.
  • Citizens are essential to the success of any solution. They are especially important when the proposed solution is something unusual or creative. Citizens know how their community is likely to react to new approaches. Even more important, they have the credibility to present new solutions. Without community support, any solution is doomed to failure.
  • Citizens are not going to go away. They are heavily invested - financially, emotionally, socially - in their communities and are likely to continue to work and live there long after specific plans and proposals, elected officials and even staff have come and gone. This means that they also carry the ‘institutional memory’ or context of past plans and projects - why decisions were made - which can form a useful basis for the next round of plans and projects.

So get involved in your community and make a difference!

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