If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight - A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy

While challenging our car-centric systems can feel daunting for anyone who wants change, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight, transportation activist Carter Lavin provides a roadmap for transforming passion into political power.

Whether your dream is protected bike lanes, better bus service, or expanded high-speed rail, this book provides transportation-specific strategies for organizing for change. It draws upon advice from advocates across the United States and Lavin's own experience with over 100 campaigns. Action points at the end of each chapter enable readers to move from brainstorming into concrete action.

Accessible and inspirational, this book will help people who are starting out, as well as experienced advocates plan, launch, and lead any transportation-related campaign.

About the author

Carter Lavin is a climate and transportation activist who helps organizations and individuals hone strategy and build political power. Carter has directly supported and trained non-profits, candidates, grassroots groups, businesses, and hundreds of individuals to win on the issues that matter to them at the local, regional, and state level. He has written for Streetsblog and Convergence Magazine. He lives in Oakland, California and is a co-founder of the transportation advocacy group Transbay Coalition and the board game design company Serious Mischief.

Product details

• Authors: Carter Lavin, Carter Lavin
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.11.2025
• EAN: 9781642833737
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-373-7
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TRANSPORTATION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Transport: general interest, Pressure groups & lobbying, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Public affairs / Lobbying