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Hey Civic Nerds! It’s Time to Rant About Transportation!

PubliCalendar   July 22, 2010 at 10:55 am Tiffany Vu

PubliCalendar keeps you up to date on upcoming civic events from public hearings and council meetings to protests to neighborhood barbecues.

If you have something to say about transportation to city officials, this is a good week to check in with the Calendar: Today, for instance, Harbor Steps holds a lunchtime discussion about the various options for bike lanes, and on Friday Sound Transit will host a panel in Tacoma on how best to build the Tacoma Link.

All this and more in the PubliCalendar.

Got an awesome civic event everyone should attend? E-mail us at info@publicola.net.


  • streets for people

    The meeting listed for Monday, July 26th as “Road Diet in Maple Leaf” is actually “Road Diet in Lake City”.

  • Andrew Austin

    The cycletrack converstation was very interesting today.

    Thanks for giving a shout out to our event in Tacoma. It is actually hosted by Transportation Choices Coalition, Downtown on The Go Tacoma, and the City of Tacoma. Greg Walker from Sound Transit will be there though to speak about the technical challenges and opportunities associated with Tacoma Link Extension. Here is more info http://www.transportationchoices.org/Forums.asp