Our cities are unfriendly to pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders. We need to reimagine the way we design and plan our cities and neighborhoods. We can improve quality of life by ensuring that people have easy and full access to grocery stores, hospitals and healthcare offices, arts and entertainment, and community spaces. People should be able to walk, bike, or ride without fearing for their safety. 

As a member of Congress, I will fight to increase grants and funding to areas that prioritize the reimagining of our cities to become friendly to people not in cars. Support for designs and ways to expand pedestrian safety and  access to daily needs and life. 

Federal support for livable cities can help us create and maintain:

• Cleaner environments and lower carbon emissions

• Comprehensive, clean, and comfortable public transit systems such as light rails, subways, buses, and trains

• Dense, multi-use buildings for housing, commerce, and public services

• Affordable urban housing by building public housing, creating community benefit agreements, and expanding tenant protections to combat gentrification

• Streets designed to slow down vehicles, using infrastructure such as roundabouts and narrow lanes

• Streets redesignated to service pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders, limiting or eliminating personal vehicle traffic and providing outdoor spaces for public use

• Safety regulations for vehicles, such as requirements for auto-braking features and limits on grill height to reduce severity of injuries to pedestrians

• More overpasses and underpasses for pedestrians to safely traverse highways and other high-speed roads