COVstreets believes that Covington residents deserve safe, easy to navigate, and welcoming streets that accommodate folks who travel by car or bus, riding bicycles, or on foot.

Despite recent general progress, though, Covington lags its neighbors on complete street solutions. Residents know what infrastructure would improve their neighborhoods, but bringing intersection-by-intersection concerns to the board of commissioners is inefficient and rarely yields results. And well-researched advocacy for cyclist-friendly infrastructure, for example, has met active resistance from the mayor and commissioners.

COVstreets is a hub that connects folks from every neighborhood on every streetscape priority. Only a broad coalition — cyclists and street-paving watchdogs, mass-transit users and rational parking advocates, residents from Hands Pike to Botany Hills — can reach the critical mass to apply effective political pressure on elected officials.

And by compiling hundreds of street-level observations, COVstreets will develop city-wide design standards that cut through the case-by-case inertia slowing action on streetscape improvements.