LIVING STREETS ALLIANCE
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Mission Statement
Living Streets Alliance is a Tucson-based non-profit education and advocacy organization with a mission to promote healthy communities by empowering people to transform our streets into vibrant places for walking, bicycling, socializing, and play. Since 2011 LSA has worked to increase rates of biking and walking in the Tucson region, while advocating for safer, equitable transportation options for people of all ages and abilities.
About This Cause
Living Streets Alliance believes that streets are critical to building vibrant, healthy and sustainable communities. Streets should be seams in the community – not barriers – providing everyone the opportunity to safely get to where they need to go while providing a quality common space to experience, explore and discover their city. Since its inception in 2011, Living Streets Alliance (LSA) has played a critical role in advocating for a bikable, walkable, livable Tucson. Best known for its bi-annual open streets event, Cyclovia Tucson, LSA also coordinates Safe Routes to School Tucson, – a program to encourage more kids to bike and walk to school – Neighborhood Walkability Assessments, and hosts bicycle safety and encouragement events like Bike Fest, the region’s annual celebration of “life on two wheels”. In addition to fun and encouraging events and programs, Living Streets Alliance works year round to implement a shared vision of a vibrant street network that accommodates the transportation needs of all people regardless of age, ability, race, gender, or socioeconomic condition. LSA's most recent advocacy work has been to bring together a broad coalition of community partner organizations and allies around a shared vision of a walkable Tucson that is safe, comfortable and convenient for all. This entails developing a Complete Streets policy to be adopted by the City of Tucson. For the above reasons, and more, Living Streets Alliance was named the 2016 Advocacy Organization of the Year by the national Alliance for Biking and Walking and continues to be honored to serve the Tucson community.