Transportation for America will be on Capitol Hill today testifying before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on “The Future of National Surface Transportation Policy.” You can stream it live on the Committee’s website. Campaign director James Corless, along with Anne Canby of the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and a founding member of T4 America, will be testifying this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. EDT.

What does transportation in America look like to you? What should it look like? We want to know! We want to see your photos of anything transportation-related: Your neighborhood bike trail, the train you take to work, an HOV lane, the new streetcar in your community, the rapid-bus line.

We just wanted to remind you about our ongoing series of webinars, continuing this Thursday (4/16) at 4:00 p.m. EDT. The Transportation for America campaign, in partnership with the National Housing Conference, will conduct an interactive webinar with a terrific panel of experts discussing the complex relationships between transportation and housing.

There are several new open positions at Transportation for America that we wanted to bring to your attention. Feel free to pass them along to any qualified candidates you may know. You can always find any current open positions on our jobs page at http://t4america.org/jobs

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. That’s why 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.

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Transportation For America and Smart Growth America invite you to attend the launch of a new book by Australian urban planning expert Peter Newman. “Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change” is the newest book by Newman, the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Australia.