Here's an article from yesterday.
Anyone go to this last night? How was it?
Unfortunately I couldn't attend. Couldn't get time off.
Quote:
International transit expert praises Calgary's high parking rates
By Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald April 12, 2012
Calgary's notoriety for having one of the costliest parking rates in the world is "courageous" for promoting commuters to use transit.
An international transit design and policy expert is applauding the city's costly downtown parking rates.
"It's a courageous decision for a city of your size, and I applaud it. Lots of other cities of your size are nowhere near being politically ready to do that," said Jarrett Walker, a Portland-based public transit design and policy expert.
Walker is speaking at a free lecture tonight at the John Dutton Theatre in the W.R. Castell Central Library, 616 Macleod Trail S.E. It starts at 7 p.m.
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Walker will lecture on how the geometry of transit shapes successful systems, and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development.
"A lot of my work is about how we talk about transit and how we're encouraged to think about transit. It should be less about technology and more about maximizing people's ability to get where they want to go."
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