DPOB Business Over Breakfast Tomorrow!

DPOB Business Over Breakfast: Urban Transportation, Nov. 5

Sustainable Transportation: Why it's good for Downtown

Confirmed Panelists

- Beverley K. Swaim-Staley,
Maryland Transportation Secretary

- Dr. Gerrit Knaap,
Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, Univ. of Maryland

- Otis Rolley III
President and CEO, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance

- Beth Strommen
Director, Office of Sustainability, Baltimore City Department of Planning

When:
November 5, 2009
7:30 AM: Registration, Networking, and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM: Program

Where:
Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore
20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore Maryland 21201
This year, Downtown Partnership celebrates 25 years of collaboration and active engagement in Downtown Baltimore. As a result of over two decades of close partnership, the Business Over Breakfast series has become an effective platform for formulating an agenda to further Downtown Baltimore's growth.

Following Downtown Partnership's Annual Meeting in September, the Business Over Breakfast will offer a unique opportunity for key stakeholders to have a dialogue with transportation experts to discuss the use and connection of sustainable methods of urban mobility such as biking, walking, car sharing, and public transportation like the circulator and water taxi.

Urban mobility is rarely satisfied by a single mode of transportation. Most trips involve a number of elements, like links in a chain - if any link is incomplete, the whole chain is broken. It is therefore important to think of Downtown Baltimore's transportation in this way: looking not at improving just one mode of transport in isolation, but at improving and connecting all aspects of Downtown's transportation options.

With Downtown at the center of most transportation activity, we will also discuss how urban transportation impacts companies and their employees, the livelihoods and lifestyles of residents and the economic vibrancy of Downtown. In this context, the goal of the breakfast is to address the opportunities and challenges that will need to be tackled to help improve and connect Downtown's sustainable transportation to further future growth.