Using local streets and intersections as hands-on teaching examples, participants will learn to diagnose safety problems and apply new tools to create safe, friendly, and beautiful streets. Participants will also learn about funding sources, and how to become more involved in local transportation decision-making. Dawn Phillips, of BOSS, and Stuart Cohen, of TCF, accepted the award presented by MTC Commissioner Ralph Appezzato and the Chairman of MTC, Jim Beall. The nooks, crannies, tentacles, arms and extensions of sprawl are most easily seen from above. Subdivisions stretch across the land like off colored stitches in a wool sweater.
Luxury homes meander up hillsides.
Hilltops are decapitated to make development platforms. This Coalition effort is made possible by teaming up with Lighthawk, an association of volunteer pilots that take decision-makers and the media up to the skies to witness transportation and development issues from 1000 feet up. This development creates snarled freeways and smog, and destroys vast amounts of open space. The opening quote above is from an article by Fairfield journalist Mark Simborg who accompanied the Coalition, and MTC Commissioner Dorene Giacopini, on a flight on October 27. The Fairfield tour highlighted the beautiful valleys and vibrant agricultural areas that would be opened to sprawl development if Measure I passes in Fairfield this November.