On Monday, April 6th Towson University will hold our second annual forum on Metropolitan Dilemmas & Solutions. This year?s forum will focus on Transportation and Metropolitan Development. The event will be held in Chesapeake I, in the University Union, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.
The forum will include a screening of Baltimore?s Red Line: Transit Around the Nation II produced by Megaphone Project as well as two panel discussions with local experts. The panels will discuss the legacies of past transportation policies, current/emerging issues and challenges facing metropolitan areas across the U.S., and the issues facing the Baltimore region in particular, including the planned Red Line.
Schedule
11:00 Documentary Film – Red Line: Transit Around the Nation II, Megaphone Project
11:30 Panel I ? Metropolitan Transportation Policies: Past, Present and Future
Panelists will discuss the impacts of past policy decisions, as well as current and emerging issues and challenges facing metropolitan areas.
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Panel II ? Transportation in Metropolitan Baltimore: Challenges, Solutions and the Red Line
The panel will focus specifically on the issues and challenges facing the Baltimore region including the planned Red Line.
Panelists will include:
Josh Saks, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Eileen Gillan, Megaphone Project
Monica Haines, Baltimore Metropolitan Council
Robert Gioielli, Towson University (History, Visiting Assistant Professor)
Scott Templin, Towson University (Metropolitan Studies Major)
Seema Iyer, Baltimore City Planning Department
Kristi Horvath, Maryland PIRG
Otis Rolley, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance
Dan Pontious, Citizens Planning and Housing Association
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to come for all or part of the forum. Everything is free of charge. For more information, please contact Dr. Donn Worgs at ext. 4-5908 or by email: {dworgs@towson.edu}.
