Calendar of meetings, events and milestones

Streetsblog:

• RTD Can’t Market Away Low R Line Ridership and Shouldn’t Fund Empty Rail Over Full Buses October 18, 2017
  RTD is wedged between a rock and a hard place. The rock? Serving the most people possible on a tight budget. The hard place? Appeasing suburban officials, who don't want rail service cut on extremely poor-performing rail lines.
• Beyond #MeToo: How Privilege and Skewed Power Structures Silence October 18, 2017
  So much of what we do within this field is aimed at addressing vulnerabilities - including threats to health, safety, and overall well-being - in order to build healthy, resilient, inclusive, livable, and just communities and cities. And yet, all too often, those with the power and resources to influence debates on what constitutes a […]
• Texas DOT Open to Burying Highway That Cuts Through Dallas October 18, 2017
  Though it's not the highway teardown advocates want, TxDOT is now considering putting 1.3-miles of I-345 underground.
• Brown Signs Bill on CTC Representation, Vetoes One on Transit Passes October 17, 2017
  Governor Brown approved guidance on creating a more representative CTC, and his veto of the transit pass bill leaves open the possibility of further dialogue.
• Walk San Francisco Names New Executive Director October 17, 2017
  Jodie Medeiros, who this week became the new Executive Director of Walk San Francisco, will never forget the moment she became a safe-streets advocate. “I was at the corner of Valencia and Duboce. I was on a sidewalk waiting to cross the street,” she told Streetsblog in a phone interview this morning. The light turned […]