In this episode, host Jonathan Maus shares clips from a recent meeting of the Metro Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT). He highlights an exchange between county commissioners that was spurred by the "reading the of the names" - an increasingly common practice at meetings where someone reads names of people killed in traffic crashes at the outset of a meeting in order to add urgency to road safety efforts.
Jonathan shares why he thinks this practice is so important — and how it can gain even more value when it spurs an exchange like the one between two commissioners and a Metro staff person in this episode.
Links:
- Nafisa Fai - Washington County Commission website
- Paul Savas - Clackamas County Commission website
- Juan Carlos Gonzalez - Metro Council website
- Metro JPACT home page
- Details on Metro's $2.4 million road safety planning grant (BikePortland)