2010 Transit Alliance Citizens' Academy

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:22pm

2010 Transit Alliance Citizens' Academy

Apply Now for the 2010 Transit Alliance Citizen's Academy

Metro Denver is emerging as THE learning laboratory for revitalizing our communities through the development of a multi-modal transportation infrastructure. NO ONE else in the nation is doing what we are here in Denver. Thanks to voter support of FasTracks in 2004, we will have more than 90 transit stations in the metro region in just 10 short years.

The program includes 7 weeks to discuss the complexities of combining transportation and community development to support the regional success of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Metro Denver area.

The cornerstone of this unique program is that participants will take their new knowledge and put it in action. Each session will be designed to be very interactive and participants will be asked to follow-up each session with a homework assignment. In addition, participants will spend a portion of each class designing their personal action plan that they will implement upon completing the academy.

Academy Graduates will:

• Actively educate other citizens about transit and its important linkage to sustainability in the Denver region.

• Actively educate others about transportation infrastructure investment.

• Develop and use active listening skills to bring shared meaning to vocabulary associated with sustainable transportation and community development.

• Actively gather, analyze and summarize relevant data.

• Develop new transportation expertise to enable them to take on expanded leadership roles in the region.