Please take a few minutes to offer your thoughts on creating an equitable transportation roadmap in Southeast Bakersfield.

The Rebound the MLKcommUNITY Transportation Equity project will equip community members with the knowledge and tools necessary to identify neighborhood-scale clean transportation needs and opportunities. 

Your input will help to identify community needs and perspectives, to help define equity and help inform and improve future decision making. 

Please answer as many or as few questions as you would like.  The survey will be anonymous, however you will be asked if you would like to provide contact information in order to be entered into a drawing for a visa gift card and to be contacted about future opportunities to contribute to the project. Your time is truly appreciated!

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* 1. Does your household own a car? 

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* 2. How do you define equity?

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* 3. The transportation systems in Kern County/Southeast Bakersfield impacts equity

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* 4. Equity should be a key input in making decisions about transportation.

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* 5. Equity in Transportation Planning 

In the following section we are going to ask a few questions about your community identity in 
order to better understand your perspective.  This information will remain anonymous.

Race/Ethnicity 

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* 6. Do you identify as Hispanic or Latino?

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* 7. What best describes your current gender identify? 

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* 8. Which of these best describes your current sexual orientation? 

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* 9. Ability Status 

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* 10. Which of these best describes your personal income last year? 

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* 11. Education: What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? If 
currently enrolled, the highest degree received. 

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* 12. What is the main mode of transportation you use? 

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* 13. What is the secondary mode of transportation you use? (Select all that apply)

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* 14. What mode of transportation would you prefer to be able to use? 

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* 15. Are you the primary caretaker for someone who cannot drive (a child, elder, etc.)? 

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* 16. In the past year, have you felt your opportunities to be limited by your access to a mode 
of transportation (for example, I wasn’t able to take a job because I couldn’t reach the 
job location)? Please describe

Transportation Decision Making 

Next, we’d like to understand more about your participation in transportation decision-making 
processes in the past. 

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* 17. In the past, have your participated in a process where decisions about transportation 
have been made? 

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* 18. If yes, please provide examples

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* 19. Did you feel heard in that public engagement process? 

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* 20. Did you feel hurt or harmed in that public engagement process? 

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* 21. Do you feel like the communities (as defined by the checkboxes above that you’ve 
indicated membership in) are HELPED by those processes? 

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* 22. Do you feel like the communities (as defined by the checkboxes above that you’ve 
indicated membership in) are HURT by those processes?

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* 23. Do you feel like the communities (as defined by the checkboxes above that you’ve 
indicated membership in) are HEARD by those processes? 

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* 24. Do you feel like what you want out of this process (and any other prior efforts to improve 
transportation and quality of life in Kern County/Southeast Bakersfield) will actually be 
done?

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* 25. Do you feel like what your communities want out of this process (and any other prior 
efforts to improve transportation and quality of life in Kern County/Southeast Bakersfield) 
will actually be done? 

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* 26. Do you feel as if participating in this process or processes is a good use of time? 

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* 27. Are you willing to take part in future questionnaires pertaining to this process?

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* 28. Please enter your email address to be entered in a drawing for a $50 Visa Gift Card. 

Thank you for participating 

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