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The following pictures are from workshops where participants learn to use the WABSA tools and practice both in the classroom and on community streets and roads.

In the town of Hendersonville, NC, participants use the assessment forms while viewing videotapes of streets and PowerPoint slides of sidewalk and street conditions.

In Spartanburg, SC volunteers quickly learned the WABSA tools and began assessing their downtown business district. Here team members measured the outside travel lane on South Church St.

With the WABSA forms, a clipboard, pencil and measuring tape, assessment becomes a step-by-step process.

AARP volunteers used the WABSA method in Richmond, VA. After collecting the data they presented the mapped results to city staff and requested improvements. Community members learned to use the WABSA tool in one Saturday and felt confident enough to assess several blocks that same day.

If we want to keep our communities diverse in age, we need to ensure that people can maintain their independence and walk around their local neighborhood. Intersections that are too wide are real barriers for older adults.