What is a Street Ambassador?
From Better Bridges to Safer Comm Ave, volunteer Street Ambassadors have played a pivotal role in many of LivableStreets' campaigns. Trained by our staff and lead advocates, Street Ambassadors actively engage with people on the street, distributing surveys and information to help put community at the center of street improvement projects.
Thanks to the support of our Street Ambassadors we collected more than 1500 responses for our Longwood Area Multimodal Survey in 2017. The hard work of our Street Ambassadors helped lay the groundwork for our report "Finding A Cure: Transportation in the Longwood Area."
Why Street Ambassadors?
The best way to improve a street is to get out there and get people talking about it. Street Ambassadors play a crucial role in demystifying the public process, organizing community concerns, and directly communicating those concerns to officials and decision-makers. Street Ambassadors help to amplify a diversity of voices to ensure that our streets are safe, accessible, and equitable.
Street Ambassador duties can include:
- Helping to administer surveys and collect petition signatures
- Communicating goals and benefits of proposed projects
- Handing out informational flyers
- Asking community members for their feedback
Upcoming Opportunities
Spring 2018 Call for Street Ambassadors: Want to help support the great changes coming to Beacon Street? We are currently recruiting Street Ambassadors to educate people about the parking protected bike lanes coming to Beacon Street as part of the Vision Zero redesign. The Street Ambassadors will be active along Beacon Street from Berkeley Street to Mass Ave, talking with community members about the coming changes.
Sign up below or contact andrew@livablestreets.info to learn more about this unique opportunity to influence how people move around Metro Boston!