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Car-Free Challenge

  1. You sign up to take the Challenge!
  2. You pick a mileage goal that's right for you.  No matter what your goal is, big or small, it all adds up collectively.  You also get two freebie days and if you carpool, you only count half the miles you travel in a car. Get ideas of what others are doing to help you pick a goal.
  3. You ask friends and family to support you in reaching your goal.  We've got tips and templates to make it easy!
  4. You track your adventures via your Challenge page. Check out how others are sharing the highs and lows in reaching their goal with stories, pictures, and videos.
  5. You compete for great prizes.  Prize categories include: "most entertaining posting", "most extreme story of avoiding driving a car", "most inspirational posting", "most supporters", and more.
  6. You share your results with us at the end of June so we can add up how many miles Challengers cut out of their lives.
  7. You celebrate with other Challengers at one of several post-Challenge parties hosted by Sports Basement around the Bay Area.
  8. We send an important message to our leaders that a critical mass of people want to drive less and live more - which is why we need better options for walking, biking, and taking transit.
Drive Less. Live More.

Priorities for Access to Health

Transportation Equity and Community Health (TEACH) in Contra Costa County
<p> Results of TransForm's pilot project in the Monument Corridor (Contra Costa County). It chronicles some remarkable successes and some areas where new funding sources are still needed. </p>
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Executive Summary

Lack of adequate transportation is often cited as a reason for not seeking or receiving health care by people who cannot or do not drive. Aware of the critical role that inadequate transportation access to health facilities plays in the health of Bay Area residents, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) initiated a study to investigate this problem. The

Roadblocks to Health

Transportation Barriers to Healthy Communities
An analysis of transportation barriers faced by low-income communities in accessing health services and healthy activities in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties. With recommendations.
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Executive Summary

For people who own cars, it's fairly easy to get to a doctor, a grocery store that offers fresh fruits and vegetables, or a park where they can exercise. But in many low-income communities of color, where residents depend on public transit and walking, poorly planned development and inadequate transit funding have put many of these basic services out of reach.

Can't Get There From Here

The Declining Independent Mobility of California’s Children and Youth
Report about how California's transportation system is failing children and youth, and what we can do about it.
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Executive Summary

Ask any old-time Californian about his or her childhood, and you'll most likely hear stories about walking to school, running to a corner grocery store or bicycling over to a friend's house. Walking and biking were a part of everyday life, he or she will tell you, and kids were able to get around on their own most of the time.

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