Why Do We Need Public Transit? Why Doesn’t Everbody Just Drive a Car?

Why Do We Need Public Transportation?

Why Doesn’t Everyone Just Drive a Car?

Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00 pm CT

In-Person Location: Legacy Books and Cafe

5249 Delmar Blvd (near corner of Delmar and Union)

Online Location—register by clicking this link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpd-qorz8iGtyJuV-unS7RsVoqd6gdtlSN

The Green Party envisions a new St. Louis where citizens can easily make most trips by bus, train, trolley, bicycle, and walking. Expanding healthy and more efficient forms of transportation would enormously improve the City’s air quality, reduce traffic injuries and deaths, and lower the incidence of heart disease and diabetes. Reduced automobile dependency will mean less traffic congestion, shorter commute times, and fewer stress-related illnesses. 

Speakers

• Jerome Bauer, Missouri Green Party Disability Caucus, Universal Design for An Accessible 2 Hour City. Enjoys walking but does not want to be run over.
• John George Bauer-Buis, Railway Advocate, Why Do We Need Public Transit?
• Chris Poehler, Bi-State Director of Green Line Expansion Project
• Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, Jeff-Vander-Lou, Neighborhood Association and other St. Louis Community representatives. (Opposed to the proposed Metrolink Green Line Route.)
• Jeanette Mott Oxford, Getting Call-a-Ride Working Again for Everybody: ADA Compliance, Universal Design, and participatory city planning. (St. Louis Metropolitan Alliance for
  Reliable Transit; SMART)
• Richard Brown, Why Transportation Should Be Free: The Case of Kansas City.
  Missouri. Retired Mo. State Representative, District 27. American Federation of Teachers Local 420 and proud union member.
• Joseph Schwieterman, Why are long-distance bus stations being closed when more and more people want and need to ride the bus? PhD Professor and Chair of Public Admin, School of Public Service, DePaul University, Chicago.

  Comments

  Daniel “digger” Romano, Walking Through the Greenway should not be hazardous to your health. Chair “No Spray St. Louis.”

• Vickie Ingram, Gateway Green Alliance, it shouldn’t be so hard to catch a bus!

   

  SHOW-ME RELIABLE, ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE
  TRANSPORTATION

  For more information call Cris, 314-495-8006