Walk Audit Project

Overview

LVBT is hosting regular walk audits beginning July 11, 2026. Members and neighbors walk a street together, document what they see, and talk about how the place works for people outside a car.

A walk audit is a simple field check of sidewalks, crossings, bus stops, shade, lighting, traffic behavior, and the feeling of a place. It gives residents a shared language for the everyday design choices that make a street welcoming, hostile, safe, dangerous, connected, or isolating.

The series is also a leadership pipeline. A rotating group of LVBT members can host audits, guide conversations, and turn informal observations into something LVBT can point to.

Motivation

World-class transit depends on the walk to and from the stop. A bus route is less useful when the sidewalk disappears, the crossing feels unsafe, shade is missing, or the bus stop feels like an afterthought.

Walk audits let Las Vegans make those conditions visible without needing a formal planning process or a large budget. They teach people how to read a street and give LVBT a record it can bring to agencies and elected officials.

Each walk helps residents connect street design to daily life, gather observations that agencies and elected officials can respond to, and build a stronger case for safer, more comfortable, more useful streets.

Approach

Each audit focuses on a real street, corridor, or transit access problem. Participants look at infrastructure, driver and pedestrian behavior, transit access, shade, lighting, accessibility, public space, and the overall feeling of the route.

After each walk, LVBT will turn notes, photos, and stories into clear public findings. Those findings will support agency conversations, public comments, neighborhood organizing, campaign materials, and follow-up asks for specific improvements.

The project will stay practical and social: get people outside, help them see the street more clearly, and give them a reason to keep showing up.

Activities

Each audit will publish a note that names the route, who participated, what conditions were observed, and what fixes would make the street or transit access point safer and more useful. Photos and maps will help people see the conditions instead of treating them as abstractions.

The series will also build member leadership. Different LVBT members can host walks, guide conversations, document findings, and carry follow-up asks into agency conversations, public comments, neighborhood meetings, and campaign materials.