Goals and Objectives

The goal of Transportation Choices 2020 is to have Rhode Island adopt a single
transportation plan by 2011 that will provide clean, affordable transportation choices and
reduce the state’s global warming pollution. In order to achieve these goals, we will:

• Educate citizens, through community meetings and earned media, about the role
  that smart transportation choices play in solving global warming, protecting air
  quality and natural areas, broadening the prosperity in Rhode Island, and moving
  toward energy independence;
• Work with regional and municipal planning commissions to agree to a set of principles that bind the state’s various transportation efforts;
• Pursue administrative advocacy with the Department of Transportation and the
  Division of Statewide Planning in favor of transportation choices other than
  single-occupancy vehicles (both by enacting better choices in administrative
  policy and promoting them through marketing);
• Work with regional partners to build demand for the expansion of regional
  railways;
• Build the New Public Transit Alliance to 30 member groups, including labor,
  faith, public health, and business groups;
• Mobilize Rhode Islanders to demand a comprehensive public transportation plan
  with sustainable funding by 2011;
• Develop a transportation package that can be responsibly financed and
  recommend marketing and promotional strategies to RIPTA; and
• Advocate for the adoption of the finalized Transit 2020 plan by the governor in
  early 2011.