Healthy Streets Campaign

Drive With Care

Healthy Streets Toolbox

Diagnosis:
Chicago Area Streets

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Healthy streets are places where students chat on the walk to school, where the elderly sit and enjoy the shade of a tree, where a mother and daughter ride bikes together, where neighbors meet at the bus stop, where it is safe for children to run and play.

The goal of the Healthy Streets Campaign is to make physically active transportation safe, convenient and fun. We are working to redesign streets around the needs of people rather than motor vehicles alone. The Healthy Streets Campaign aims to effect a balanced transportation environment that more wisely allocates resources and space to encourage walking, bicycling and public transit—and recreates streets to better serve all aspects of community life.

The Healthy Streets Campaign is a realistic, innovative package of projects using street design, policy, marketing and enforcement tools. We start by transforming selected local and commercial streets. Successes become models for neighborhoods and whole communities where reckless driving is not tolerated and walking, bicycling and transit have priority.

The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation launched the Healthy Streets Campaign in March 2005. Individuals, organizations and agencies committed to better health, safety, transportation, recreation and community design are invited to join the campaign to win Healthy Streets.

Six Initiatives:

Safe Routes - Make walking and biking to destinations such as schools, shopping, transit and parks safer and more attractive for special groups such as students and seniors.
Go Healthy! - Offer individualized marketing to people motivated to build active travel into their lives. Encourage physicians to prescribe physical activity.
Sunday Parkways - Open selected streets for traffic-free biking and walking on weekends and holidays.
Drive With Care - Stage an integrated campaign that uses marketing, enforcement and street design to stigmatize and stop reckless driving.
Home Zones - Create protected ultra-low speed zones in residential and commercial areas where walking, biking, playing, socializing and green space have priority.
Complete Streets - Promote multi-modal policy, planning and funding advocacy. A street is not complete until all modes are accommodated!

Job Oppourtunity

Healthy Streets Campaign is seeking 5 Active Living Coaches. Learn more here.

Special thanks to Walkable Communities for the use of this domain. Walkable Communities, established in the state of Florida in 1996, was organized for the express purposes of helping whole communities, whether they are large cities or small towns, or parts of communities, i.e. neighborhoods, business districts, parks, school districts, subdivisions, specific roadway corridors, etc., become more walkable and pedestrian friendly.

Contact:
Randy Neufeld
Healthy Streets Campaign Coordinator
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
(312) 427-3325, ext. 222