This month, Access Planning was pleased to join SPUR and the Seamless Bay Area on a panel exploring integrated transit governance models from around the world that may have lessons for regional transit governance the Bay Area.
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Tamim Raad, Access Principal, shared a Canadian perspective on the struggle for harmonized regional transit governance. He described, using four planning principles and a Metro Vancouver area case study, how a collective planning approach can foster regional cooperation over competition and how harmonized regional transit governance can lead to an outcome where a “rising tide lifts all boats.”
Listen to what Tamim Raad and others on the panel had to say on the video transcript found here: https://www.spur.org/events/2020-09-10/transit-governance-lessons-bay-area