Flex Your BRT Muscles to Boost Your Corridor

Communities of all sizes are planning, designing and building Bus Rapid Transit. Let’s dig into a couple of exciting and transformational case studies from Denver and Houston for specifics about flexing the mode to meet local needs – for high-quality transit, safer streets, more vital business districts and access to parks and public amenities. Find out how BRT projects can foster strong coalitions via community-centered planning and design. Get details about what it means to consider the needs of a range of stakeholders– specific communities, businesses, vulnerable travelers. Learn about options for delivering access, safety, placemaking and street and station design, as well as the tradeoffs involved. BRT is a flexible mode; it’s all about how you flex it!

Moderator: Thomas Brennan, Director of Business Strategy, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc., Portland, OR
Adam Borsch, Multi-Modal Planner/Engineer, Parsons Corporation, Denver, CO
Amma Cobbinah, Senior Planning Program Manager, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO), Houston, TX
Timothy Reynolds, AICP, Vice President, Transit & Rail, WSP USA, Cincinnati, OH