{"id":450,"date":"2012-04-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2012\/04\/12\/brown-bag-forum-perspectives-on-public-transportation\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:00:00","slug":"brown-bag-forum-perspectives-on-public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/12\/brown-bag-forum-perspectives-on-public-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Bag Forum: Perspectives on Public Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cHey&#8211;you\u2019re Washington Bikes, not the Transit Alliance!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-0uEqhem7dK4\/T4YMmc3MnwI\/AAAAAAAAAtQ\/-BumRKFRnkc\/s1600\/Forum.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-0uEqhem7dK4\/T4YMmc3MnwI\/AAAAAAAAAtQ\/-BumRKFRnkc\/s320\/Forum.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">True, but we don\u2019t bike ALL the time.\u00a0 Sometimes we drive, sometimes we walk, and sometimes we use public transit.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we\u2019re co-hosting this lunchtime event in Seattle on April 18, and we hope you\u2019ll join us.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Two national transportation experts will be on hand for an engaging discussion about public transportation.\u00a0 Authors Jarrett Walker and Darrin Nordahl will discuss public transit from two different ends of the bus route:\u00a0 technical simplicity\u2014and fun.\u00a0 Opening remarks will be provided by Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Walker, author of <u>Human Transit<\/u>, believes that transit can be simple if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share.\u00a0 He supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Nordahl, a subscriber to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefuntheory.com\/\">The Fun Theory<\/a>, is the author of <u>Making Transit FUN!<\/u>\u00a0 He believes that emotion is a more powerful motivator than reason and argues that there should be a positive incentive\u2014one that lures motorists because the experience of using transit is actually pleasurable.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Space is limited for this event, so please <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/transportationchoices.org\/events\/perspectives-on-public-transportation-lunch-debate-and-forum\">RSVP<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This event is co-hosted by Transportation Choices, Banyan Branch, Washington Bikes, Downtown Seattle Association, Commute Seattle, Cascade Bicycle Club, The Seattle Transit Blog, VIA Architecture, Feet First, GGLO, and Washington Environmental Council.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey&#8211;you\u2019re Washington Bikes, not the Transit Alliance!\u201d True, but we don\u2019t bike ALL the time.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,11,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-events-wa","category-seattle-king-county-wa","category-transit","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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