Presentations available

The PowerPoint presentations for each of the speakers are available now at www.incog.org/transportation/whataboutrail.htm. Videos of presenters should be available early next week.

The questions and comments we received were great, and we'll begin posting those this week.

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the public open house yesterday. We apologize that there wasn't more time for questions, but hopefully everyone enjoyed the great presentations from Cal Marsella, General Manager - RTD, Sonya Lopez, Senior Planner - City of Austin, and Dr. Jack Crowley, Special Advisor to the Mayor - Urban Planning. Thank you to all our panelists and speakers for sharing their experiences with Tulsa residents.

Also, thank you to our co-sponsors who helped INCOG in planning this event - the Federal Transit Administration, Tulsa Now, Tulsa Metro Chamber, and Tulsa Young Professionals.

As promised, we'll be posting answers to last night's questions here, a few at a time. If you have more questions, post them here or email transportation@incog.org. Please remember that comments are moderated, and anonymous comments cannot be posted (see our posting guidelines for more information).

Also coming soon - videos of all the presenters sharing their entire presentations.

Open House Presenters

We are excited about the caliber of presenters who have agree to participate in the public open house. They include:

Sonya Lopez - Principal Planner, Austin

Cal Marsella - General Manager of the Regional Transportation District, Denver

Andrew Howard - Kimley-Horn, consulting firm studying the integration of land-use and transit for the City of Tulsa Comprehensive Plan

Dwayne Weeks Federal Transit Administration, New Starts and Small Starts project review team).

You can submit questions for these presenters starting today. Questions can be added as comments to this blog or email to transportation@incog.org. Please include your name, city of residents or organization with the question. There will also be time before and during the open house to submit your questions.

Excitement Building

We are already receiving excited responses from residents and organizations like Sustainable Green Country about the opportunity to discuss these issues in a public forum. We knew many of you were thinking about this topic: in a scientific study conducted in fall 2006 of 808 households in the Tulsa Transportation Management Area, residents ranked rail as one of the top five priorities for the next 5-10 years.


Read more about this survey on the Connections 2035 webpage.