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📢 Registration is OPEN for Mpact Transit + Community! 📢 Join us for the next Mpact Transit + Community Conference coming to Philadelphia, October 20-23, 2024. Network and learn with cross-sector stakeholders. Join with others dedicated to taking a community-first approach to transit, mobility and development projects. Get all the details and register at https://lnkd.in/gsmsjPXY

Experience Philadelphia's rich history as a transit-oriented region at Mpact Transit + Community. Explore a number of transit-oriented developments and learn about the unique collaborations and solutions that made them happen. Hear from practitioners, local leaders, developers, funders and community members on these Mobile Workshops: 📌 MW07 – William H. Gray 30th Street Station and Schuylkill Yards 📌 MW09 – Suburban Riverfront TODs 📌 MW18 – Transit-Oriented Communities Urban and Suburban 📌 MW24 – Infill TOD and Redevelopment in Fishtown Browse these Mobile Workshops and more on the Conference Schedule: mpactmobility.org/schedule #MpactPhilly #transitorienteddevelopment

Explore Philadelphia on bike at the Mpact Transit + Community conference this October! 🚴♀️ Learn about the city’s cycling network, riverfront trails and multimodal facilities firsthand on these Mobile Workshops: 🚲 MW05 – Complete Streets for Bike and Bus 🚲 MW10 – Tacony: An Evolving Industrial Waterfront Neighborhood 🚲 MW19 – Transforming Philadelphia’s Central Delaware Waterfront 🚲 MW23 – Philadelphia Center City Bikeways Register soon to get your top choices of Mobile Workshops and Pre-conference events. Learn more about the Mpact Transit + Community conference at https://lnkd.in/gEhnMstm.

So much great thinking around transit-oriented communities at Mpact Transit + Community. 🧠 What are you most excited to learn? Learn more about the conference: https://lnkd.in/gEhnMstm #MpactPhilly

This October, the network of people dedicated to building great places to live around transit is heading to Philadelphia for Mpact Transit + Community 2024. Leaders, practitioners and decision-makers from across the US and Canada will be there. Showcase your company or organization – sign up to sponsor by August 16 to ensure full benefits: https://lnkd.in/gGDyCdz6

We're hiring! Mpact seeks a Director of Administration to manage administrative functions and provide executive support. This is a critical role, with a diverse set of responsibilities as well as opportunities to take on challenging projects and improve the organization. The position reports to the Chief Executive Officer and works with closely with the Chief Executive Officer and other staff to achieve the organization’s goals. Find out more at this link: https://lnkd.in/eJkritVb. Deadline for first consideration: August 6, 2024. Open until filled.

So many modes to explore Philadelphia! When you register for Mpact Transit + Community, add on a Mobile Workshop to make the most of your conference experience. See the Mobile Workshop line up and other conference information at https://lnkd.in/gEhnMstm. What are you most excited about for #MpactPhilly?

Meet Breen Masciotra, AICP, EcoDistricts AP, a planner in many senses and member of our National Steering Committee! Based in Pittsburgh, Breen works at Mpact Partner, evolveEA. 😁 Tell us a little bit about yourself & what you do I'm a planner. An urban planner, an event planner, and a trip planner. By day, I help communities pave the way for a safer, more equitable, more sustainable transportation future; by nights and weekends, I'm socializing, camping, or walking my dogs, whether in the woods or up and down Pittsburgh's many city steps (800 sets!). 👥 What one word captures why you’re involved with Mpact? Community. The people that I get to spend time with and learn from in Mpact forums are the best ones around. I've learned so much about how to be a better planner from my colleagues in the Mpact community over the last twelve years and I look forward to all that I'll learn in the next dozen. ⬆️ What's the most underrated mode of transportation and why? Anything vertical! 🚡🚡🚡 In Pittsburgh, we have HILLS. Our inclines (a.k.a. funiculars) are critical to people getting around. We used to have 17 but now we only have two. As we look to reconnect communities, aerial trams could be the answer. Our hills provide ample greenspace and dramatic views but they also have to be overcome to achieve equitable access. 🌎 What are we not talking about enough? Climate change mitigation and the role of walkable, mixed-use communities in it. After we pick the low-hanging fruit, we must find ways to reach higher and continue to have an impact. Key to the equity and sustainability of our mitigation strategies is pursuing transit and transit-oriented communities as their backbone. Forgoing these long-term solutions to focus solely on the quickest fixes is to shortchange ourselves, particularly those of us with the fewest resources and choices. 1) Bike week at evolveEA. 2) Mpact NSC crew at Sedona, AZ. 3) Beehive at Buffalo NY’s Silo City. 4) Breen and Moira Egler, AICP (also on Mpact’s NSC!) on a flight. 5) Breen's dog, Theia, and city steps. 6) Cleveland’s Detroit Superior Bridge. 7) Breen's dogs, Zoso and Theia, cuddled up.

New Mpact Podcast episode is live! 🎙️🛴https://lnkd.in/emB7vn86 Tune in to hear an update six years into the e-scooter era from the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), a leader in piloting the relationship between cities and micromobility providers. Thanks to Jacob Sherman, MBA and Dylan Rivera for joining us!

🚨 Last week to apply! 🚨 Interested in transit, mobility, land use, and development? Want to gain insights from diverse sectors? Apply for a scholarship to attend the 2024 Mpact Transit + Community conference! Advocacy and community-based organization members are eligible. Scholarships close THIS FRIDAY, July 19! Find all the details and apply at https://lnkd.in/ginXBawg.