Sustainable Transportation: The Future Is in the Past
October 21st at 6:30pm
The creation of new, attractive urban spaces relies on good, non-automotive mobility options. Ironically, American cities used to rely on an infrastructure of inter-city and inter-urban rail, street cars, biking and walking. The guide to what will work best in the future has already proved utile and well-designed in the past. In this forum three experts in sustainable transportation will analyze historic conceptualizations of mobility with a view towards how that vision from the past can become a prescription for a more livable urbanity.
Speakers:
Al Runte, Author of Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation
Andrew Austin, Transportation Choices Coalition
Diane Wiatr, Mobility Coordinator/Urban Planner, City ofTacoma
Moderator: David Nicandri, Director,Washington State History Museum
Al Runte, Author of Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation
Andrew Austin, Transportation Choices Coalition
Diane Wiatr, Mobility Coordinator/Urban Planner, City of
Moderator: David Nicandri, Director,
Individual pre-paid tickets are $7.50
Tickets at the door are $10.00.
Students are admitted free with school ID.
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Questions: info@retacoma.com
Please pass on the info to anyone you feel would be interested. All are welcome but seating is limited so register to secure your seat.
Thank you,
ReTacoma
my grandmother was a baker in Phillips cafeteria at the site of the museum for 30 years in the middle of the 20th century; she took a streetcar between Fern Hill and work for a nickel.
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