Our Mission
The mission of the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities (CRTP) is to promote transportation solutions that protect and support a healthy environment, healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy economy on the North Coast.
Check out the petition for safer 4th & 5th Streets in Eureka and read our report on traffic safety in the corridor:
Watch point-of-view videos of bicyclists and pedestrians in the 4th & 5th Street corridor.
Land Acknowledgement
CRTP is located in Goudi’ni (Arcata) on Wiyot land. Ancestral Wiyot lands range from Plhut Gasamuli’m (Little River) in the north to Tsakiyuwit (Bear River Ridge) in the south, from Shou’r (Pacific Ocean) in the west to the first set of qus (hills/mountains) to the east. Waterways in the ancestral lands of Wiyot people include Baduwa’t (Mad River), Hikshari’ (Elk River), Wiya’t (Eel River), and Girrughurralilh (Van Duzen River).
As an organization focused on transportation, CRTP acknowledges that many of today’s roads and highways follow traditional Indigenous travelways, and also that the development and “improvement” of local transportation systems in the nineteenth century were inextricably tied up with the abuse and genocide of local Indigenous Peoples by White settlers. We also acknowledge that significant transportation inequities continue to impact Indigenous communities today, including a lack of adequate infrastructure and disproportionate rates of pedestrians and bicyclists killed by vehicles. We further acknowledge, as we strive to reduce the impacts of our transportation system on the local and global environment, that the environment itself is a legacy of the careful stewardship of Indigenous Peoples over the course of millennia.
We pledge to listen to Indigenous Peoples as we strive to improve our transportation systems and address historic and ongoing inequities. We pledge to work with Indigenous Peoples to ensure positive outcomes whenever our actions may impact culturally important resources. In all of our work, we pledge to respect the special relationship of Indigenous Peoples with the land in their historic territories, as well as the ongoing right of Indigenous Peoples to sovereignty and self-determination.
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