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Kids and families now have safer streets thanks to a community-led effort which resulted in the addition of two new crosswalks and stop signs for one Concord, CA neighborhood.
According to a First Five Contra Costa blog, in 2012, at least 12 members from their Central County Regional Group banned together to conduct a walk audit of local streets and intersections. What community members discovered was that two important intersections, often crossed by families and children, were not walkable under current conditions.
After the walk audit, the team decided to go a step further by developing recommendations for their city council. In May 2013, the regional group members and staff from Health Services presented their need before city council and within a week stop signs with flashing red lights and visible crosswalks, were installed, according the blog post.
The Detroit Avenue walk audit was made possible through Kaiser Permanente’s Monument HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) Zone Project, an initiative which aims to reduce obesity rates by encouraging low-income communities to eat better and get more active.
Learn more about this here.
By The Numbers
33
percent
of Latinos live within walking distance (<1 mile) of a park
