Webinar: Connecting Communities: Saving Local Transit in the Bay Area & Beyond

Wednesday, 30 October 2019 - 12:00pm

Transportation is one of the biggest challenges facing the Bay Area today. To build good transit, the discussion needs to focus on what matters—quality of service, all kinds of transit riders, the role of buildings, streets and sidewalks, and, above all, getting transit in the right places.

Join Island Press and TransForm for a webinar on improving local transit in the Bay Area and beyond, part of the Connecting Communities series this fall. Christof Spieler, author of Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, will discuss how to strengthen local transit, putting the Bay Area’s challenges in context with other regions around the country. Spieler will discuss strategies to revive interest in transit and boost ridership locally and regionally, in conversation with a local transit advocate and a transit agency representative.

Participants:
- Christof Spieler, PE, LEED AP, is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a Lecturer in Architecture and Engineering at Rice University
- Christy Wegener, Project Manager for San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans)
- Chris Lepe, Regional Policy Director, TransForm

 

This webinar is part of Connecting Communities 2019. This series of events will highlight transportation and housing solutions that advance climate protection and social equity. 

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