San José

How LA and SJ Embraced Modern Transit

Name: How LA and SJ Embraced Modern Transit
Start: 2016-06-07T19:30:00
End: 2016-06-07T19:30:00
Location: SPUR San Jose

Lunchtime Forum

12:30 p.m. | Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Image courtesy of Flickr user Ron Reiring.

Both Los Angeles and San Jose are reinventing themselves from auto-oriented cities to the “railtowns” of tomorrow. What has Los Angeles learned from the South Bay, and what can we learn from LA’s recent transit expansions? Join Ethan Elkind, the author of Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City, and Rod Diridon, the “father” of modern transit service in Silicon Valley, for this important conversation. Co-presented by The Commonwealth Club.

+ Rod Diridon / Mineta Transportation Institute
+ Ethan Elkind / UC Berkeley/UCLA School of Law

Location

SPUR San Jose

76 South First Street

San Jose, CA 95113

[email protected]

Phone

408.638.0083

Admission

Free and open to the public.
Pre-registration is not necessary for this event.

Presentation by Diridon and Elkind

Refund Policy

Sponsorship payments: Will not be refunded, as sponsorship benefits take effect immediately and are on-going through the date of the event.

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