Highlights from Transportation Camp DC 2015 (#transpo15)

#trbam, Commons, Conferences and Symposia

Bask at our written session board. (Full digital list here)

Session Board, via Stephanie Nguyen

Four-hundred people attended all or part of the day, the largest DC Transportation Camp ever. (Image via TransitScreen)

Big Conference Room by TransitScreen

We voted in a poll using Easy Buttons. (Image via Nicola Ivanov)

These are the results of that poll.

Transit rockstars shared their stories. (Image via Brendan Casey)

This is an impromptu game of Cards Against Urbanity.

Fellow Streetsbloggers Greater Greater Washington talked how we do what we do and how we can do it better. And here’s their ten best tips at a glance. (Image by Nolan Levenson)

We helped our friends in Maryland prepare and succeed with having a Republican governor who is anti-transit, namely the Purple Line. (Image via Ted Van Houten)

We created our own bike boulevards. (Image by Meghan Makoid)

And I finally met so many of you in the DC area, as well as from across the world face to face. It was fun! See you again throughout #TRBAM. Look for a daily recap post similar to this on each day I attend sessions.

 

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About Kristen Jeffers

I'm Kristen. Almost five years ago, I got tired of not seeing black women as nerded out about trains, better streets, riding bikes, walking not just out of necessity, tall buildings, old buildings and honestly a lot of other things. I was in grad school for community and economic development (ok, it’s actually an MPA), and I wanted to make sure people knew I existed and that I could help them do this thing called placemaking better. Five years later, I’m still doing that, although not from my hometown of Greensboro, NC, but from Kansas City, MO. I spend most of my time in Kansas City promoting better biking and walking infrastructure metro-wide with BikeWalk KC and the Kansas City B-cycle. But I also wrote a book A Black Urbanist (you can grab that over on the right) and sometimes I give speeches and help other communities tell their stories at design charrettes and public meetings. I’ve also written or appeared in all of the major “urbanist” publications, either as a subject or as a writer, as well as most of my hometown papers as subject or writer as well.