Come and talk with us about it at Move LA’s 4th annual Transportation Conversation, “L.A. On the Verge of a Transit Breakthrough,” on Friday at Union Station. Register here. The final agenda is below and — if you don’t take transit — there are directions to parking in the Metro Headquarters.
The event is in Union Station's Main Concourse room (the old ticket lobby at the front of the building) just inside the front door off Alameda Street. We encourage you to take transit to Union Station (hub for the Red, Blue, Gold and Metrolink lines, and the Flyaway bus from LAX), but if you are coming by car, parking is in the Metro Headquarters parking structure ($6/day) to the east of Union Station, which you can enter off Cesar Chavez (as it approaches Vignes) or off Vignes. Whether you arrive by transit or by car you can enter Union Station through the pedestrian tunnel from Metro headquarters or the rail lines.
Directions to parking:
http://www.metro.net/images/metro_map.pdf
Agenda
Move LA's 4th annual Transportation Conversation
Registration (8 o’clock)
Welcome (8:30)
Denny Zane, Executive Director, Move LA
Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary-Treasurer,
L.A. County Federation of Labor
Gary Toebben, President & CEO, L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce
Opening Remarks
How Great Things Get Done
Art Leahy, CEO, LA Metro
Update from U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office (9 o’clock)
Status of Federal Transportation Bill and 30-10
Yvette Martinez, Deputy State Director/Senior Advisor,
Sen. Boxer
Morning Topic (9:30)
Finding New Resources for Transit
Gloria Ohland & Denny Zane, Move LA
(Co-moderators)
Getting the 30-10 Plan Done
• Where are we now in terms of accelerating the Measure R transit program? Will Congress create the programs necessary to implement the 30-10 Plan?
• Can the State of California create financing tools to fill any gaps left by Congress? • What opportunities would be created if we extend Measure R for several decades?
Assemblymember Michael Feuer, Los Angeles
Richard Katz, Metro and Metrolink Boards, former Chair, Assembly Transportation Committee
Raffi Hamparian, Director of Federal Affairs, L.A. Metro
Kevin Norton, Political Coordinator, IBEW Local 11
Michael Turner, Director of State Affairs, L.A. Metro
New Resources for Transit
• What are the best bets for new sources of transit funding? What are the prospects for an indexed gas tax, or new fuel or VMT fees at the state or national level?
• Why not seek voter approval for a new regional sales tax or other taxes to fund regional infrastructure including commuter rail and goods movement projects?
• Will we forever require voter approval for significant new funding for transportation? Should we lower the voter threshold to 55 percent so a small minority can’t block all proposals? How do we do this?
• How big a role can public-private partnerships play in meeting our infrastructure needs and for which projects?
• Can the new Cap-and-Trade program for implementing AB 32 create new transit revenue? Operating or capital?
Assemblymember Julia Brownley, Santa Monica
Mayor John Fasana, City of Duarte, L.A. Metro Board
Hasan Ikhrata, Executive Director, Southern California Assn. of Governments
Anupom Ganguli, Public Advisor, SCAQMD
Mike Schneider, Managing Partner, InfraConsult
Stuart Cohen, Executive Director, Transform
Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director Western Energy and Climate Projects, NRDC
Lunch Keynote (11:45)
TOD Vision and Lessons from Vancouver, B.C.
Gordon Price, former Councillor for the City of Vancouver; Director of the City Program, Simon Fraser University
Afternoon Keynote (12:15) Transit Expansion and Community Building: Lessons from Hollywood
Jackie Goldberg, former State Assemblyperson, L.A. City Council member and School Board member
Afternoon Topic (1 o’clock)
TOD Local Initiatives & State Policy
Beth Steckler & Denny Zane, Move LA
(Co-moderators)
The Future of TOD and Lessons
Learned in Hollywood
• In Hollywood, tenants, business people, property owners, social service providers and churches came together under the leadership of the City of LA to revitalize one of L.A.’s most historic and downtrodden neighborhoods. How well has it worked? What were the smartest ideas underlying Hollywood’s success?
• What are the lessons learned for neighborhoods around new transit lines and stations? What are the lessons learned from concerns being raised about density in Hollywood?
Joan Ling, Board member, L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency
Alan Bell, Deputy Director, L.A. City Planning Department
James de la Loza, Senior Vice President, AECOM, former Director of Planning, L.A. Metro
A 2012 Transit and TOD Legislative Agenda
• Last year SB 310 (Hancock) was approved and signed into law. Does this new law make infrastructure financing districts and equitable TOD possible? Can AB 485 (Ma) plug the holes and fulfill the promise? What more can the Legislature do?
• Can equitable TOD and first-mile-last-mile infrastructure issues be addressed locally? What can Metro, the City of L.A. and other Southern California communities do to address these needs?
Assemblymember Fiona Ma, San Francisco
Assemblymember Mike Eng, Monterey Park
Hans Hemann, Chief of Staff to Senator Loni Hancock, Berkeley
Tunua Thrash, Executive Director, West Angeles CDC
Jay Kim, Planning and Land Use Bureau Chief, LA DOT
Mott Smith, Co-founder, Civic Enterprise, CA Infill Builders
Adrian Martinez, Attorney LA Urban Air Program, NRDC
Alexis Lantz, Planning and Policy Director, LA County Bicycle Coalition
Julie Snyder, Policy Director, Housing CA
Autumn Bernstein, Founding Director, ClimatePlan
Closing Remarks (2:55 )
Denny Zane, Executive Director, Move LA
