Excited participants eager to move the discussion on transportation solutions came from around the Bay Area and around the country. Many OpenPlans staffers made it all the way in from New York, where East Coasters converged for TransportationCamp East earlier this month. Hayley Richardson made the trip down from Seattle, where she works in transportation demand management for the suburban city of Bellevue. “To be frank, I had been feeling rather lonely lately – I work in a city that’s very auto-focused,” she said. “I wanted a weekend to come and get re-energized and excited about what I do and the possibilities of technology in bringing down the barriers to public transportation use and getting people pumped about other choices besides driving alone.” One discussion, led by Google designer Adam Baker, sought ideas for an iPhone app that would facilitate street life. Participants began by listing the qualities of a street they saw as essential to vitality, forming categories such as “open stores,” “community pride,””serendipity,” “seating” and “human scale.”
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A great write up of TransportationCamp West in Streetsblog SF, Tech Solutions for Transit Emerge at TransportationCamp West.
