With over a dozen grassroots campaigns accompanied by innovative legislative advocacy, Transportation Alternatives works on many fronts to reduce car traffic and promote better bicycling, walking and public transit.

Whether you have five minutes or five hours, there is no shortage of opportunities for you to help us make every street a green, healthy and 'complete street' with adequate space and priority for safe biking, walking and transit.

In 2011 T.A. is fighting for an expanded bike network and much more bicycle parking, both indoors and out. On the Upper West Side, Harlem, Central Brooklyn, the South Bronx and in targeted neighborhoods throughout New York City we are working hard (and block partying hard!) to usher in a Streets Renaissance. We are also reforming NYC's broken parking policies that breed illegal parking and needless traffic. We are working like never before to criminalize and reduce reckless driving.

Increasingly, our work to improve bicycling, walking and public transit includes the push for legislative reforms at the city and state levels. To read the laws that T.A. supports, check our Legislative Action Center.

Here are some campaigns that, with your help, will meet with success in 2011:

• Growing Bicycling
• Complete and Healthy Streets
• Car-Free Parks
• NYC Streets Renaissance
• The Rider Rebellion
• Parking Reform
• Vision Zero NYC

Growing Bicycling

With better designed bike lanes, more greenways and convenient and secure bicycle parking, many more New Yorkers could reap the joys and efficiencies of bicycling. Become involved in T.A.'s campaigns to build public support for stronger designs, safer bridge access and indoor bike parking at work. This campaign includes Bike Lanes and Greenways; Bridge Access; Bicycle Access to Buildings; Bicycle Parking; Transit Access; Enforcement; Street Memorials; Cycling Outreach; and General NYC Cycling Information.

Complete & Healthy Streets

T.A. has worked tirelessly over the past decades to make the streets safer for pedestrians and bike riders. We fought to introduce traffic calming measures in New York City, and our pioneering Safe Routes to School and Safe Routes for Seniors campaigns have now been adopted by the City Department of Transportation.

T.A. advocates for comprehensive safety improvements through its Healthy & Complete Streets campaign. This campaign aims to make designing and building safe, healthy and high performance "Complete Streets" a matter of course across the boroughs, especially in neighborhoods with the poorest health conditions. We provide community groups, advocates and residents with the tools they need to reclaim street space from automobiles for uses that promote better health and environmental sustainability. We achieve these goals through our advocacy for Complete Streets and initiatives based in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's District Public Health Office regions.

Car-Free Parks

Central Park and Prospect Park were created 140 years ago as refuges from the street noise and bustle of the surrounding city. Tragically, the parks' status as a retreat from the urban din is compromised every weekday by the presence of car traffic. Cyclists, runners, skaters and strollers seeking respite must jockey for space in a narrow "recreational lane" inches away from the traffic they are seeking to escape.

NYC Streets Renaissance

The choice is clear: either we choose to be defined by worsening traffic and perilous streets or we can define ourselves through great public spaces and lively streets. Through action and dialogue New Yorkers can raise expectations for their public realm. Join the campaign for local improvements that reflect your neighborhood's unique character.

The Rider Rebellion: Fighting for Transit for All

The Rider Rebellion Campaign is uniting transit riders in support of affordable fares, better service and the end of service cuts. The Rebellion is an action-oriented campaign that will pressure state and city elected officials to stand up for riders and provide stable, long term funding for subways and buses.

Parking Reform

Bad parking policy contributes enormously to congestion, and encourages drivers to park illegally, endangering pedestrians and bicyclists. T.A. is fighting for "Performance Parking" to eliminate cruising and create vacancies at the curb, Residential Parking Permits to ease traffic on residential streets and reforming government-issued parking placards.

Vision Zero NYC: Zero deaths, zero injuries, zero fear of traffic

Why do we tolerate any deaths caused by traffic? When fatalities come in exchange for the movement of motor vehicles, the loss of a single human life is one too many. When a New Yorker is killed or injured in traffic, it is not an accident. With more effective public policy, better engineering, stricter enforcement and more responsive education, thousands of deaths and injuries could be prevented.

T.A. is building a coalition to demand that New York City’s plan for our streets be based on the vision that no one should be killed or seriously injured in traffic ever. For every fatal crash, there are thousands more that result in incapacitating injury. For every injury, there are tens of thousands of crashes that terrify New Yorkers, and for every frightening crash there are millions of New Yorkers who are prevented from living active, healthy lifestyles because of the fear of traffic.