Transit beyond the Purple Line: A presentation by me, tonight

I will be speaking before the Montgomery County transit advocacy group, Action Committee for Transit, on Tuesday October 10th at 7:30 pm, at 8818 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring (this is north of the intersection of Georgia and Spring).

Here's the description of the session:

Richard Layman, a Washington-based advocate focused on center city revitalization issues including transit, and the author of the Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space blog, will talk about Montgomery County (and some regional) transit issues, after first discussing the "'rithmetic" of mobility, and the concept of mobility-shed transportation planning. Among various activities, Layman helped lead the creation of two different Main Street commercial district revitalization programs in the city, and is working on the relaunch of the Citizens Planning Coalition.

Now I don't know what I'm gonna talk about yet... but I hope to be provocative.

Some of the stuff concerns the primacy and necessity of Transportation Demand Management, the polycentric form of transit in the region and the problems that result, the debacle in Virginia--I don't care so much about Virginia wrecking itself, but unfortunately this has cascading effects on those of us in DC (and Maryland), and a proposal for an annual transit advocacy conference, to rotate between the DC and the baltimore region--with occasional forays to Annapolis and Richmond, etc.

See "Virginia Transportation Talks Die" from the Post about the failure of the State of Virginia to deal with some of their issues in a special session of the Virginia Legislature.

Index Keywords: mobility; transit