Transportation For America » Webinars and town hall meetings: Deepen your engagement

Webinars and town hall meetings: Deepen your engagement

March 26, 2009
By Stephen Lee Davis

Congress will make significant investments in transportation this year — but where and how we choose to invest will have deep impacts on our housing and job markets, public health, energy needs, climate, economic competitiveness, and nearly every other pressing issue facing our country today.

To help explain these connections, we’re launching two initiatives — a series of webinars with top experts in the field and an ambitious national town hall program — to help you learn more about transportation’s effect on everyday issues and share your community’s vision for transportation with the campaign.

Town Hall Meetings

It’s time for a new, 21st-Century vision for transportation that will be safer, healthier, cleaner, more equitable and smarter so that our nation can compete and thrive in the future economy. It’s time to leave behind our current, 1950s-era federal transportation program.

But we need you and your community to help us tell Congress and President Obama what America needs. We want to bring your voice, your vision for the future of transportation to them. We want to tell them about the projects you want in your town, your goals for community’s travel and living options, or your needs for getting employees and goods to your business.

To develop your community’s vision, hold a town hall or a simple house meeting in your community. Afterward, you can submit your community’s ideas to become part of the national vision for our new transportation in the 21st Century. We want to hear your voice — tell us what you want.

Soon, we’ll be launching a new town hall page that will make it easier to find a meeting near you or hold a meeting of your own in your community. And after meetings conclude, we’ll be posting and chronicling the ideas and vision generated from your meetings around the country to paint the picture of what America wants for our 21st Century transportation system.

Learn more about town hall meetings

Webinars

The first webinar, on Transportation and Social Equity, happened earlier this week, but there are at least five more happening soon.

The upcoming webinar (April 2) on Climate Change and Energy Security should be one of the most popular, with an outstanding panel of experts discussing how various modes of transportation impact our environment and energy security, and how our land-use patterns affect how much we drive and our air quality.

If you miss a webinar but still want to explore the issue, you’ll be able to read a summary, listen to the full audio, and most important of all, download a policy brief that gives a solid overview of the issue, sprinkled with great facts and data to illustrate the connections to transportation.

Check back soon with the webinars page below or here on the campaign blog for those materials as they are posted.

Learn more and register for a webinar