The world is changing and so must Winnipeg. With the imminent gas crisis and the need for improved transit and city accessibility, it’s time to discuss the opportunities at our doorstep.

Join us as we bring you Portland Oregon’s Vice President of Parson Brinckerhoff Place Making, G.B. Arrington, to spark awareness about Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Find out how our we can improve the convenience and aesthetic of Winnipeg and its infrastructure.

TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT is the exciting new fast growing trend in creating vibrant, liveable communities. Also known as Transit Oriented Design, or TOD, it is the creation of compact, walkable communities centered around high quality train and bus systems. This makes it possible to live a higher quality life without complete dependence on a car for mobility and survival.

Thursday November 20
Noon to 2 PM
Keynote Speaker with Panel Speakers
At Globe Cinema, 3rd Floor, Portage Place
Organized by the Downtown BIZ and Institute of Urban Studies

G.B. Arrington:
G.B. Arrington is Parson Brinckerhoff's most senior practitioner in the field of linking transit and land use. For the last 20+ years G.B. has played a key role in the Portland region's innovative experiment to reinvent the American dream of a liveable community by marrying transportation and land use. He was asked by the White House to organize and moderate Vice President Gore's first Livable Communities roundtable and has served as an advisor to the Federal Transit Administration and communities from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Perth, Western Australia interested in growing smart.

He is one of the founders of the RailVolution Conference and frequently writes and speaks on smart growth and transportation and has been interviewed on PBS television, National Public Radio and quoted extensively in books and articles on light rail, transit-oriented development and regional planning. G.B. has managed numerous complex interdisciplinary planning projects. The strategic planning work he directed charted an award-winning new direction for Portland's transit agency. His innovative transit planning and community involvement strategies changed the face of transit in Portland's suburbs and received a Way to Go Award! from ReNew America and the US Environmental Protection Agency.