Your transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and thls book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, You've Got
to Fight, transportation activist
and
advocacy consultant
Carter Lavin provides a roadmap
for transforming passion into political power.
Whether your dream is to make your community safer and more sustainable by getting protected bike lanes, improving bus service, or expanding hlgh-speed rail,
this book provides step-by-step guidance on organizing for change. Through advice from dozens of advocates across the United States and Lavin's own experience with over 100 campaigns,
readers will learn
transportation-specific strategies to win. Critically,
the book teaches
readers how to
deftly navigate their political, cultural, and historical contexts to adapt their advocacy efforts
and make
allies -- from local businesses to transit
agency staff to key decision makers. Action points at the end of each chapter and a toolbox of campaign
tactics at the end of the book enable readers to move seamlessly from brainstorming into concrete action.
Whether you are just starting out or have engaged in
transportation advocacy for a whfle, the tools and insights in
this book will help you develop, plan, and execute the transportation-related campaign of your
choosing. Professionals in the transportation space will also
discover
how to be an effective advocate whlle working within the system.
Accessible and inspirational, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight will be a game-changer for people who want our
communities to prioritize
people over cars.
Your transportation dreams
are all possible. Are you ready to fight
for them?
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