Survey Asks For Opinions About Local Transportation Options
Press release from The Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities:
The Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities has released a survey to gather information about how North Coast residents get around their communities, and how they feel about the transportation options available to them. The survey asks residents how much they walk, bike, drive, and take the bus. It also asks their opinions about each of these modes of transportation, how they decide what mode of transportation to use, and how they’d prefer to get around.
“Transportation is such an integral part of our lives that we often don’t think much about it,” said Colin Fiske, the Coalition’s Executive Director. “But the options we have for moving around our communities have huge impacts, not only for our daily lives but also for our health, our neighbors, our environment and our economy.”
The survey asks whether people think that various local modes of transportation are safe, comfortable, and convenient, and how they feel about the impacts that these transportation options have on their communities and the natural environment.
“If we’re going to get people using healthier, more environmentally friendly modes of transportation, we first have to understand what they’re doing now and why,” said Fiske. “Unfortunately, there’s very limited information available on these topics here on the North Coast. So we’re hoping that this survey is just the first of many over the coming years that will document local transportation attitudes and how they change, and help inform local decision-makers and advocates.”
All North Coast residents are encouraged to fill out the short survey, which should take about 10 minutes to complete. A link to the survey is available on the Coalition’s home page at transportationpriorities.org. The direct link to the survey is: https://transportationpriorities.org/transportation-attitudes-survey/.
A Spanish-language version of the survey can be found here: https://transportationpriorities.org/encuesta-de-actitudes-en-el-transporte/.
For more information about the Coalition, visit www.transportationpriorities.org.
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Is a “day pass” available for the South County bus? If not, there should be. If there is, how much & where to purchase?
Don’t hold your breath on better public transit. The organization Colin Fiske is promoting is one of his own creation and it caters primarily to upper class residents who can afford the latest bikes and the coolest bike riding outfits. Meanwhile, low wage workers could be better served by a transportation system designed to serve their needs and this would result in fewer cars on the roads. The Biden Administration could use some pressure to promote a national transportation system that doesn’t just favor the wealthy but also serves the needs of the poor. Yes, there should be day passes for the southern bus, but it will take more than a “survey” to get the attention of city councils and the board of supervisors. Good public transit is the best way to get people out of their cars and on the bus. As for bicycles as a response to gasoline consumption, many people drive big SUVs to haul their bicycles to a remote location for riding them. How is that helping the environment?
Many thanks Mary. Appreciate that you spoke to the important issues of equal funding to help low income residents, who would most benefit from well designed transportation system improvements.
Appreciation to Friday for reenforcing what Mary suggests, that the survey may be designed to meet it’s developers objectives.
And. If you have a bike rack, which can go on almost any vehicle, you can take your bike on that. No large SUV required. 🙂
as humans we find ourselves bound to convenience. At least in the hemisphere.
Be forwarned – after you complete the survey, you must provide your name & email address in order to actually submit the survey. Also, it’s a kind of simple-minded survey, designed to satisfy the creator’s pre-determined goals, rather than desiged to identify real and perceived transportation issues in the community.
Yes, despite the notation that this information is optional. I was actually unable to submit it at all, since it kept coming back and telling me my submission failed the security check. What kind of security check does a public information-gathering survey need anyway??? Total waste of time. Colin will submit the results he wants to see, not what survey participants put in, anyway.
“Colin will submit the results he wants to see, not what survey participants put in, anyway.”
Yeah, I noticed that on one of their previous surveys… a press release that approximately 100% of survey respondents wanted to see bicycles as the only legal mode of transportation and all cars banned from roadways. Or something else equally idiotic – I don’t remember what it was now. Just the claim that every single person supported their bullshit, which was obviously not true.
BEWARE… SURVEYS ARE USED AS MANUFACTURED CONSENT