A recipe for transportation funding? Forum shares ingredients from Seattle, Bay Area and Los Angeles [Video]

Build a broad coalition, with strong leadership. Have a clear vision. Think big – and be bold.

Over and over again, a group of community leaders from all over greater Portland heard those messages Friday, at the second of five “regional leadership forums” setting an agenda for a major update of the region’s long-range transportation vision.

The forum at the Oregon Convention Center was part of an effort to raise awareness about greater Portland’s transportation challenges and how they might be addressed. Attendees included the Metro Council, elected leaders on the Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation and Metropolitan Policy Advisory Committee, and dozens of community representatives, labor and business leaders and local agency staff.

The 2018 Regional Transportation Plan update

Transportation shapes our communities and our everyday lives. Metro, the elected regional government for the Portland metropoltian area, is working with the public and local, regional and state partners to update a shared transportation vision …