Live Show: Electing Transportation Champions

So this event is land use and transportation advocacy organizations.

So for those unfamiliar, how do you see transportation advocates support land use and vice versa?

So I actually came to urbanism and land use from a environmental perspective.

My first and main priority in getting involved in advocacy was climate advocacy.

I feel like after spending enough time in the issue, you get a picture of, okay, yeah, we can get this energy thing figured out.

But what about transportation? Okay, yeah, so we should do public transit instead of cars.

That makes sense.

But how do we get... that to work well it seems like it's so hard when everybody's so spread out you'd have to have so many buses with all these lawns in between you know these big mcmansion lawns how do you serve that oh no we have to fix land use first uh and so that's that's kind of the path that i took to uh getting into here and that so ivy those things is uh highly related uh

how many of you biked or walked here tonight or as part of your journey That's a key piece of this.

I think that back in the day when a lot of these urbanism organizations started, they started with bikes because there was an identity attached to that.

And that is a good thing, and that is a bad thing.

It gives you a little bit of a step up, and it gets a little problematic because of the demographics who associate themselves with being somebody who bikes.

When you're getting around on foot or by bike, you are so aware of your surroundings.

I walked you tonight.

I walked across Hiawatha.

It is just an absolute car sewer.

It's the other end of something my friends at R Streets are working on, you know, same highway, a little bit up north.

And it's something that radicalizes you.

You're so aware of the issues with how we have chosen to develop our communities in ways that

separate us.

That identity of how we are moving around in the world and the way that that impacts how we view the spaces around us and are aware of those problems and are spurred towards a desire to change them.

I think that that is the connective tissue.

And that is something you're aware of the transportation element as you are moving, but you are also aware of the fact that where you're moving to is located in a way because of rules that somebody made probably arbitrarily like 70 years ago.

And that's nonsense.

And we can change that.

So this event is land use and transportation advocacy organizations.

So for those unfamiliar, how do you see transportation advocates support land use and vice versa?

So I actually came to urbanism and land use from a environmental perspective.

My first and main priority in getting involved in advocacy was climate advocacy.

I feel like after spending enough time in the issue, you get a picture of, okay, yeah, we can get this energy thing figured out.

But what about transportation? Okay, yeah, so we should do public transit instead of cars.

That makes sense.

But how do we get... that to work well it seems like it's so hard when everybody's so spread out you'd have to have so many buses with all these lawns in between you know these big mcmansion lawns how do you serve that oh no we have to fix land use first uh and so that's that's kind of the path that i took to uh getting into here and that so ivy those things is uh highly related uh

how many of you biked or walked here tonight or as part of your journey That's a key piece of this.

I think that back in the day when a lot of these urbanism organizations started, they started with bikes because there was an identity attached to that.

And that is a good thing, and that is a bad thing.

It gives you a little bit of a step up, and it gets a little problematic because of the demographics who associate themselves with being somebody who bikes.

When you're getting around on foot or by bike, you are so aware of your surroundings.

I walked you tonight.

I walked across Hiawatha.

It is just an absolute car sewer.

It's the other end of something my friends at R Streets are working on, you know, same highway, a little bit up north.

And it's something that radicalizes you.

You're so aware of the issues with how we have chosen to develop our communities in ways that

separate us.

That identity of how we are moving around in the world and the way that that impacts how we view the spaces around us and are aware of those problems and are spurred towards a desire to change them.

I think that that is the connective tissue.

And that is something you're aware of the transportation element as you are moving, but you are also aware of the fact that where you're moving to is located in a way because of rules that somebody made probably arbitrarily like 70 years ago.

And that's nonsense.

And we can change that.