SoCal Fourm

Southern California Transit Forum: Seeking Solutions for the Transit Funding Crisis

The upcoming Southern California Transit Summit will offer transit agency officials, labor leaders, policy makers, transit advocates and the public an unprecedented opportunity to share their perspectives on and discuss potential solutions to California’s current transit funding crisis.

Metro CEO Arthur Leahy and Richard Katz, Metro and California High Speed Rail Authority board member, will be featured speakers at the event.

Both will be joined by a number of transit professionals including:

• Curt Pringle, mayor of Anaheim and chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority
• Lucy Dunn, CEO of the Orange County Business Council and California Transportation Commissioner
• Hasan Ikhrata, CEO of the Southern California Association of Governments
• Josh Shaw, executive director of the California Transit Association.

The event will span a variety of critical topics including  

• An analysis of the current state transit funding crisis
• The impact of the crisis on the future of public transit in Southern California
• Legislative and legal options
• Upcoming transit-related ballot initiatives
• Federal funding opportunities
• Stakeholder perspectives
• The future of California high-speed rail

What:    Southern California Transit Forum          

When:   Friday, February 5, 2010

Where: The Paul and Daranne Folino Theatre
Chapman University
Orange, California 

For more information or to register, call 714.560.5939 or e-mail pwanddelear@octa.net