Action Committee for Transit

Tonight is ACT General Meeting night! This evening, our topic is transit oriented development. Our speaker is MacPherson Hughes-Cromwick, WMATA Office of Real Estate to talk about it. ACT's monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month, (TODAY!) at the Silver Spring Civic Center. Meetings begin at 7:30pm. [The soccer game will be over by then, and you will have time for dinner before the meeting].

For those who might want to dig deeper into this topic, this conversation with Boris Johnson and Kevin Faulconer (mayor of San Diego) , from 2015 is still an interesting and relevant one:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/watch-london-and-san-diego-mayors-on-their-cities-global-connections-and-competitiveness/

It covers general infrastructure of two very different cities: London and San Diego. Looking back, it illustrates how London has widened the transit and biking gap with our region.

WATCH: London and San Diego mayors on their cities' global connections and competitiveness | Brookings On February 12, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings hosted a conversation with London Mayor Boris Johnson and San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer about the challenges of governing global cities for inclusive growth. During the discussion, which was moderated by Metro VP & Director Bruce Katz, b...

Here's a sample of the scorecard with an explanation of how it works: