If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight : A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy

Yourtransportation dreams don't need permission-they need a strategy. Start winning today!

Your transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and thls book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, You've Gotto Fight, transportation activistandadvocacy consultantCarter Lavin provides a roadmapfor transforming passion into political power.  Whether your dream is to make your community safer and more sustainable by getting protected bike lanes, improving bus service, or expanding hlgh-speed rail,this book provides step-by-step guidance on organizing for change. Through advice from dozens of advocates across the United States and Lavin's own experience with over 100 campaigns,readers will learntransportation-specific strategies to win. Critically,the book teachesreaders how todeftly navigate their political, cultural, and historical contexts to adapt their advocacy effortsand makeallies -- from local businesses to transitagency staff to key decision makers. Action points at the end of each chapter and a toolbox of campaigntactics at the end of the book enable readers to move seamlessly from brainstorming into concrete action.  Whether you are just starting out or have engaged intransportation advocacy for a whfle, the tools and insights inthis book will help you develop, plan, and execute the transportation-related campaign of yourchoosing. Professionals in the transportation space will alsodiscoverhow to be an effective advocate whlle working within the system.  Accessible and inspirational, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight will be a game-changer for people who want ourcommunities to prioritizepeople over cars.  Your transportation dreamsare all possible. Are you ready to fightfor them?