Convenient, on-time, healthy, sustainable transportation throughout the San Diego region.
Organize and serve a broad collaboration of people and organizations to prioritize, fund, and implement sustainable, healthy, convenient transportation and related land use solutions that get people and goods wherever they are going, on time, throughout the San Diego region.
Goals:
Organizing the Community
Assemble and maintain a collaboration of the various groups working to improve transportation. Help to resolve issues between groups that are blocking unified progress.
Serve this collaboration with information, analysis, constructive advocacy, outreach, communication, and convening.
Provide a place for members of the public to show their support for transportation solutions.
Develop, promote, and facilitate regional transportation solutions, and support regional leadership in effectively implementing them.
Be accepted as a trusted public voice for sustainable transportation.
Working with Government
Through proactive and constructive work with relevant agencies, help shape the next Regional Transportation Plan and each successive plan.
Promote the planning principles and plan changes required to increase transit ridership: connectivity of the network, customer experience, transit travel times equal or faster than driving for key trips.
Encourage transportation agencies and other public and non-profit organizations to provide information to the public, in innovative ways, about the opportunities for more sustainable transportation and improved land use.
Fearlessly and respectfully identify the obstacles blocking innovative solutions to transportation and land use issues, and constructively pursue their remediation.
Results in Our Region
Dramatic improvements to our region's transit system, doubling transit trips taken per day after 7 years, and doubling again after another 7 years.
A 50% increase in the number of housing units in walkable locations.
A 50% increase in the number of jobs in walkable locations.
Identify the best mix of infrastructure and services for a sustainable transportation future.
What Do We Value?
Traffic and High Energy Costs are Problems.
Transit is a Solution.
Transportation choices like walking, biking, telecommuting and transit let you do what you need to do while reducing traffic congestion and pollution. An efficient and convenient transportation system connects all the options together, making life easier and more productive.
What is Move San Diego?
Move San Diego is a local 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation of San Diego’s environment through the design of sustainable transportation, smart transit and improved infrastructure. We aspire to be the trusted public voice for sustainable transportation. Through proactive and constructive work with the public and relevant agencies, we will help to shape our region’s transportation plans. Move San Diego emerged from a unique alliance between the business and environmental communities to improve regional quality of life, support better development, and reduce the impacts of congestion on people and the environment in San Diego County.
Great Places Have Great Transit
Studies show that most successful metro areas have great transit systems. Cities such as Washington D.C.; Paris, France; San Francisco; and Brisbane, Australia have proven that a well-designed transit system can work.
The Benefits of Good Transit
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Reduces traffic congestion and frees up parking
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Saves time and money
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Enables economic growth and productivity
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Good for the environment and health
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Gets people to work quickly and reliably
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Creates new real estate value
Why Are We Awesome?
Our primary goal is to promote progress on the planning, development, and use of different transportation modes – such as walking, bicycling and public transit – and the land use patterns that help determine their effectiveness. Move San Diego is not anti-automobile. Rather, we believe the region must begin bringing our transportation investments into balance. We need to protect the region's enormous investment in roads from overuse, and to protect the region's environment and quality of life. Our transportation investments must be more strategic and cost-effective.
Move San Diego was formed in January 2004 by citizens, environmentalists, bicyclists, pedestrians and transportation experts to build broad support for sustainable transportation systems and land-use policies. Click for information about our Board of Directors or Officers and Staff.
Notes from our Fearless Leaders
Message from our Executive Director by Elyse Lowe
Stuck in traffic – again? Late to work because you missed the bus or trolley? Can’t commute by bike because it’s not safe? Hate that it’s too far to walk to work? It’s about time we tackle these challenges and find smart solutions to these problems.
To do so, Move San Diego (Move SD) is asking for your help today. Your support - $100 or more - is needed to help us make positive change in providing San Diegans with reasonable transportation alternatives.
Your donation serves a unique purpose - supporting San Diego’s only regional sustainable transportation and land use planning advocates. Move SD has one full time staff member (that’s me), two part time grant funded expert consultants, a stellar volunteer Board of Directors including the pro bono team of three land use attorneys from Sheppard Mullin Richter Hampton, as well as several interns and volunteers.
We are working to build our capacity now so that we will be more effective in our advocacy in the next year. We are determined to make a difference in regional transportation and land use planning in the next two years, as we work to make change happen. Here is how we are investing our time now and into 2010:
Serve until 2011 on the Regional Transportation Plan update Stakeholder Working Group, and until 2010 on the Transportation Project Evaluation Criteria Ad Hoc Working Group, Move SD provide direct input where to make strategic rapid transit investments, and push for higher performing measures for public transit investments, and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GhG) emissions.
Build strong, diverse coalitions to help strengthen the voice for more effective transit for the San Diego region.
Follow through on our comments to the draft San Diego County General Plan Update, and continue to provide written comments on federal and state legislation related to transportation, smart growth and climate change.
Completion of the development of the North County FAST (Financially Achievable, Saves Time) plan in June 2010, as a follow up to the development of the Move SD FAST plan which demonstrates realistic means to building rapid transit infrastructure throughout Central and South San Diego.
Assemble and host advisory groups to strategize about real time solutions to transit challenges in our region.
Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the costs and benefits of the FAST Plan related to the transit components of the SANDAG RTP.
Likely to be the only independent organization to take closer technical look at SANDAG’s Regional Travel Model to identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Participate in transportation planning forums to reduce GhG emissions in the San Diego region.
Provide education about transit opportunities and smart growth strategies designed to reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled.
Apply for grants and bring together partners to create an educational video on the future of Smart Transit in San Diego.
Identify and apply for grants to stabilize our operations, and build our build our capacity to hire part time development and program assistants.
Please give generously today by going to www.movesandiego.org and using our secure online donation page (through Google Checkout) to make a donation, or join as a member. If more convenient, please make a check out to Move San Diego and mail it to us:
Move San Diego
PO Box 87588
San Diego, CA 92138
All contributions are tax deductible.
If you have any questions, give us a call at (619) 702-4266. We are pleased to talk with you more about how we can collaborate better with you to support sustainable, healthy, convenient, on-time transportation throughout the San Diego region.
“Our economy, environment and quality of life depend on it,” said Elyse Lowe, executive director for Move San Diego. “We must improve transportation
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