Mobility for Everyone - Closing Plenary from

Transportation is how you get places, right? For the thirty percent of people who don’t drive, public transportation is often the way to go. Watch the video of the closing plenary at the 2025 Mpact Transit + Community conference for several views of access and mobility for all.

00:00 Welcome Kammy Horne, Chief Executive Officer, Mpact
00:46 Earl Blumenauer, Former US Congressman and founder of Rail~Volution, now known as Mpact
02:53 David De Rosa, AECOM - Plenary sponsor
07:18 G.B. Arrington, Principal – Retired, GB Placemaking LLC, Portland, OR,
10:09 Creating accessible places - a conversation between G.B. Arrington and Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon), Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX
29:05 Keynote with Anna Zivarts, author of "When Driving is Not an Option"
58:50 Discussion with Anna Zivarts and Gala Korniyenko, PhD, Lecturer, City and Regional Planning Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, moderated by Jan Campbell, Board Member, Disability Rights Oregon / Chair, Committee on Accessible Transportation, TriMet, Portland, OR
01:32:31 Invitation to Mpact Transit + Community 2026 - Toronto, Ontario, with Jose Santoyo, Destination Toronto and video remarks from Michael Lindsay, President & CEO, Metrolinx, and Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation, Ontario, Canada

For more about the conference, visit: https://www.mpactmobility.org/confere...