Announcing a PPS publication PHOTO CONTEST!

PS is developing a guidebook for average citizens who are interested in knowing how to engage their Departments of Transportation to create effective transportation changes in their communities. This publication will be crammed with useful information, and we’re looking for your input when it comes to large-scale photographs to compliment and embellish this input: we want you, our community, to be involved in the creation of this exciting community guide!

So take a look at the potential chapter headings listed below, and send us *creative* photos that you think compliment or illustrate each of these ideas or sentiments. The idea is that the photos are colorful (the photos will be printed in color), and focus on people rather than on streets or vehicles (close ups are generally better than distance shots) Remember: humor is important!  Keep in mind, these pictures don’t need to be literal interpretations of the theme in these headings (which are fairly policy and transportation focused). In fact, they should be pictures that are easily described by a word or phrase out of the chapter heading they pertain to. We’re looking for engaging, creative photos of people in their communities that compliment the wider content of this Citizen’s Guide. Feel free to get creative!

Details:

1. Dealing with Government Bureaucracies
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar
2. Understanding the Transportation Planning Process
Do your homework
3. Seeing the Wider Context of a Project
Again, do your homework
4. Opening up Opportunities for Flexibility
Design guidelines allow for flexibility, no matter what the engineers tell you
5. Exploring Design Exceptions as a Way to Get What You Want
Another way to achieve flexibility
6. Looking Çloser at Two Typical Justifications for Big Road Projects
Just because they come out of a computer, don’t assume that traffic projections and level of service” targets are sacred.
7. Getting Smart about the Issue of Liability
Transportation professionals sometimes exaggerate the risk of lawsuits
8. Keeping in Mind How Your Community’s Own  Decisions Affect Road Projects
It’s easy to blame the transportation establishment, but what role does your town play?
9. Calming the Traffic
It’s no substitute for designing good streets from the start
10. Understanding Transportation Engineers
How to get them to solve the problems you want fixed
11. Taking the Decision to the Next Level
There are effective and ineffective ways to go over someone’s head
12. Initiating a Project on Your Own
How to be proactive instead of reactive ingetting what your community wants

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