Not intending to go way off-topic with a transit discussion, but to me transit
and bike/ped issues are linked in many ways, so the bikies crowd may be
interested in this free event, put on in part by my center at UW:
Beyond the bus-vs.-rail debate:
How to cultivate transit discussions that take us where we need to go
A talk by Jarrett Walker, international transit consultant and author of the
weblog HumanTransit.org
Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
UW Pyle Center, Room 313
702 Langdon St., Madison, WI
Like many cities, Madison has spent years debating rail and other ideas for
improving area transit. Yet few of these proposals have moved forward, and new
threats to transit funding could undo what progress has been made.
Why are debates over transit often so frustrating and contentious? Can we
frame
them differently to foster more productive conversations and stronger
consensus,
both about the kinds of transit systems we want and about the value and
benefits
of transit to our communities?
Jarrett Walker, international transit consultant and author of the popular
transit policy weblog HumanTransit.org, thinks we can, and will discuss how in
a
talk on Tuesday evening, May 31, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 313 of the UW Pyle
Center,
702 Langdon St. in Madison.
A fundamental problem, he maintains, is that heated quarrels over transit
technologies have made it harder to think and talk clearly about what we really
want for our communities and which choices best achieve those goals. The
relationship between transit technology and transit outcomes is not always as
clear as it seems, and categorical opinions about any technology, rail or bus,
can blind us to many other ways to improve our transit systems and thereby
enrich our communities and our lives. Approaching transit issues from a
different point of view may make them easier to resolve.
Jarrett Walker, PhD, has been a consulting transit planner for 20 years, and
has
worked on a wide range of projects, from small-city bus re-structurings to
major
transit corridor studies. He has written HumanTransit.org since 2009 and his
book Human Transit, expanding on themes from that writing, is forthcoming this
fall from Island Press.
The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the UW State Smart
Transportation Initiative, the Dane Alliance for Rational Transportation, the
DaneTransit coalition, and the Madison Peak Oil Group. For further information
contact Fred Bartol at (608) 251-6126.
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