Transportation reform is a critical challenge of our era. TOPP is a leader in the Livable Streets movement, a campaign to reverse decades of car-first urban planning and create better transportation systems.
Transportation policy cuts across every major civic issue. By reforming transportation planning, we can launch a greener economy, address climate change, reduce oil dependence, help people get to work and school, and improve public health and safety.
Our Livable Streets initiative is putting these issues on the agenda in places across the country. Through online political mobilizers, collaboration tools, and education projects, this initiative taps the power of average people, bringing them into the planning processes that shape their neighborhoods.
This work is turning parking lots into plazas and congested highways into bike paths. It is creating more sustainable, connected, and healthy neighborhoods.
Initiatives
The Livable Streets Initiative is reversing decades of automobile-dominated urban planning. This work is creating healthier, more sustainable, people-oriented neighborhoods.
We help teachers and schools weave ideas about urban livability and advocacy into their curriculum. Livable Streets Education connects the classroom to lively topics like environmental stewardship, traffic calming, engaged citizenship, and safe routes to schools.
Streetsblog's LA affiliate covers mobility, sustainable transport, and related issues in and around the City of Angels.
Streetsblog New York covers sustainable transportation and city planning issues. In just two years, the blog has exploded to 125,000 monthly readers, creating a strong community that has redirected transportation policy in New York City. Today, Streetsblog is daily reading for mainstream journalists, policy makers and the public.
Launched in January 2009, Streetsblog San Francisco covers transportation and urban sustainability news across the Bay Area.
The Streetsblog Network connects local, grassroots transportation reform
advocates with one another and with the inside-the-Beltway national campaign. With nearly 400 quality blogs on sustainable transport, smart growth, and livable streets issues, the network reaches hundreds of thousands of readers each week.
Streetswiki is a community-created encyclopedia of transportation. Using Streetswiki, advocates can compare the world's best bike-sharing programs or describe traffic calming measures in their neighborhoods.
This website invites people around the New York to post photos that document rampant abuse of city parking placards. The site and related coverage of the problem resulted in broad reforms. Learn how in the Parking Reform case study.