Transportation After COVID: Priorities for Moving Forward
webinar, Thursday, May 21, 7 pm
How can communities build a healthier transportation system? Find out what is happening in other cities and what can be done in Newton. Speakers Ann Lusk, PhD, Harvard Chan School of Public Health; Galen Mook, Executive Director of MassBike, Massachusetts’ statewide bicycle advocacy organization; and Dina Gorelik, Newton North High School Senior and President of the Newton North Bike Club will examine ways to reduce air pollution associated with transportation and COVID severity, accelerate efforts to create projects that support healthy active transportation, and more.
Register for the webinar at www.greennewton.org
Co-sponsored by GreenNewton and League of Women Voters Newton
Moderated by Newton City Councilor Alicia Bowman
This is a very important topic for Newton. Now is the time to be rethinking about how we move around. Giving people more options is key with designs that are “people first”. We are in a place that we couldn’t have envisioned a few months ago.
Perhaps encouragement of mass transit should should be rethought.
What would your solutions be for people who currently use mass transit? And what is your opinion on the research from Harvard and Yale linking small amounts of air pollution to higher COVID death rates? https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/air-pollution-linked-with-higher-covid-19-death-rates/
https://e360.yale.edu/features/connecting-the-dots-between-environmental-injustice-and-the-coronavirus
Do you also support rethinking schools where children and adults are sitting in close contact?
Hear, hear!
I myself intend to purchase a private Bell helicopter for placement on my planned backyard helipad, which I am certain that my wealth and influence will easily induce the planning board into approving.
I believe that this strategy will provide me with significant advantages and economies over say, a private train, which I can also afford.
It’s clear that transportation will not and can not be the same, going forward. Conversations like this evening’s webinar are crucial, giving us a chance to be proactive and intentional about our future.
Three cycling advocates get together to debate the future of “transportation”…let me guess…more bicycles?
I commute by bike except in the nastiest weather and am all in on improving our cycling infrastructure (though the existing infrastructure has been pretty awesome for the past three months!).
But you can’t have a credible discussion about “priorities” if only one point of view is going to be present.
Michael, how about simply a private automobile. You can use your driveway for parking it, and existing roads for driving it.