If the links between climate change, transportation justice, and public policy are a new subject for you, there's nothing wrong with that! To help aid in your journey toward a deeper understanding, I've assembled a small guide here to help you dip your toes into some of the most pressing, unsung issues that we're currently facing.

Start Here for Spencer's Intro to Transportation Justice

What is one of your first questions when you think about transportation in America?

• Are things really that bad?
  • Read Right of Way or Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture & Resistance.
• How did we get here?
  • Read Death and Life of Great American Cities.
• I don’t really read non-fiction, but I like fiction and I’m angry.
  • Read The Monkey Wrench Gang.
• I don’t have any, I feel burnt out when it comes to climate change.
  • I'm with you on that. Try reading All That We Can Save or Generation Dread.
• I don’t like to read
  • Skip to the next Section.

There are other ways to learn more about transportation advocacy than just books. How do you like to engage?

• I’d prefer a podcast.
  • Listen to The War on Cars.
• I like online communities.
  • If you live in Denver check out the Denver Bicycle Lobby, Denver Streets Partnership, and YIMBY Denver. If you don’t live in Denver, Google around for transportation advocacy groups in your area and join them where they hangout. They're out there.
• Just let me scroll.
  • Big Dumb Trucks Club on Instagram
  • Car-free America on Instagram
  • /r/fuckcars (they also have a great resource page with more reading recommendations)
  • Streetsblog
  • List of Transit Advocacy TikTokers

If you have any questions, or recommendations for other resources for this list, please DM me on Instagram.

User submitted book recommendations that I haven’t read yet (in order of submission):

• Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy
• Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
• Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
• Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
• Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
• There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
• The High Cost of Free Parking