Metro Understanding How Women Travel

The goal of this project was to understand more about women’s experiences and travel needs, so Metro could improve the overall safety, reliability, and convenience for women using transit. Pueblo Planning employed innovative planning methods to address this goal including: participatory design workshops and artmaking and storytelling to engage with some of Metro’s core and most vulnerable women riders---women experiencing homelessness, women with disabilities, and women who are immigrants and/or undocumented. Additionally, Pueblo Planning engaged with riders at key transit locations to hear their experiences and thoughts on taking public transit; Pueblo Planning utilized artistic pop-ups to draw in people for a conversation. Pueblo Planning intentionally engages those who are most impacted by planning decisions. Thus, Pueblo Planning’s community engagement strategies uplifted the needs of core transit riders and those most likely to regularly use transit including people of color, low-income households, and renters.