Close to 200 people attended the first-ever Transportation Summit on Sept. 17 at the San Juan County Fairgrounds.
Attendees were exposed to present and future transportation needs and challenges. They generated actionable ideas for improved transportation in the islands and began the collaboration to implement those transportation solutions. If community results are to come from the Summit, it is the people who attended who will need to step up and organize around their particular issue. Some of the actions are individual (be a role model, each one teach two, etc.) and some of the actions will require legislative action or entrepreneurial creativity. Organizers invite everyone who attended to continue the conversation and work together to find economically and environmentally sustainable multimodal transportation solutions for San Juan County.
An Executive Summary, presenter slides, session notes and session handouts (if any) from each session are available at www.islandway.org/transummit under the “Outcomes” button. Hard copies of all materials as well as videos of sessions and photos from the graphic recording will be available at local libraries by the end of October. At the bottom of the “Outcomes” page, you’ll find a link to our “Green Report Card” evaluating the results of our objective of producing “Zero Waste”.
Any questions, please send an e-mail to transummit@islandway.org or call Bill Watson, San Juan County Economic Development Council, at 378-2906.