Please save the date of Saturday, May 13 for the Community Forum: Leading the Way to Carbon Zero. This event, led by 350 Sacramento, will take place at McGeorge School of Law, 9:00am to 3:00pm. The keynote will be by Alex Steffen, author of Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet.

The 350 Sacramento Town Hall in November 2015 breakout session on transportation led to the creation of Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR). This Community Forum will see the next step along the way to a better transportation future with a breakout devoted to the formation of a transportation advocacy coalition, whose interim name is Sacramento Transportation Choices. A team of advocates is defining principles for transportation in the four areas of environment & health, accountability & transparency, equity & accessibility, and ridership. These principles will be shared as soon as they are in strong draft stage, and the people who convene around transportation at the Forum will work to refine these so that all advocates for strong investment in walking, bicycling and transit can sign on. The coalition will use the principles to either improve the next Measure B tax measure, or to oppose it if the regressive car-centric investments cannot be reversed.

Members of the STAR Action Team are prominent participants in developing the transportation principles, but a number of other organizations and individuals are contributing. Now that we have a strengthening voice for transit in STAR, joining the existing walking (WALKSacramento) and bicycling (Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates SABA), it is time to bring together a strong voice for transportation investments that lead to stronger communities and economic vibrancy, rather than climate and air pollution, congestion, and carnage that characterize our past investments and were the heart of the failed Measure B.

A Forum planning committee is developing details and these will be shared here as well as on the 350 Sacramento website. The Sacramento Transportation Choices principles will also be shared here. Put the date on your calendar and stay tuned!

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