Over a thousand transportation planners, engineers, government agency leaders, elected officials, and advocates, including Sierra Club staff and volunteers, recently converged in Minneapolis for the NACTO Designing Cities Conference.
Why does the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) gather? The organization explains:
“We believe that transforming streets is not only possible, but necessary to address climate change and structural inequities. This radical optimism and belief in our collective ability to make change fuels our work and drives all that NACTO does. The Designing Cities Conference is our primary vehicle for building and sustaining the community that makes this movement possible.”
The Sierra Club North Star Chapter concurs with NACTO’s statement. Streets in cities, big or small, have a huge impact on how we get around. And transportation is the #1 source of climate change pollution in Minnesota and the nation.
We are grateful to McKnight Foundation for the opportunity to send staff to this “conference about streets.” The networking, learning, sharing that happened for three days, culminating in Bike to Work Day, was invaluable. We are taking lessons learned, and connections made, to our longstanding Land Use and Transportation work.
Walk, bike, or roll, grab a bus, train, or electric vehicle, and join the LUT Team!
