You’re Invited!
You are invited to join the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transit Roundtable as it hosts the Mobility Matters: Creating Community Transportation Solutions workshop on October 7, 2008. This lively, interactive, and free workshop will help the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transit Roundtable to develop solutions to transportation challenges facing our region and enhance the mobility of central
Iowa
’s residents.
Workshop Purpose
High fuel prices and changing demographics are creating an increasing demand on public and community transportation. Service providers throughout the metro and surrounding counties increasingly struggle to help their clients deal with transportation challenges. This workshop will educate participants about transportation coordination efforts underway in central
Iowa
and about promising practices from across the nation. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to work with transportation providers to develop solutions to the area’s unmet transportation needs.
Agenda
Click here to downtown the workshop agenda.
Who should attend?
The workshop is intended for organizations in Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story, and Warren counties that provide transportation as well as those organizations that serve persons with transportation challenges. Examples of persons with transportation challengers include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Elderly persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Low-income persons
- Children
- Second and third shift workers
- Non-native English speakers, immigrants, and refugees
Directions and Parking
Mercy Medical Center medical center is located just north of I-235 in downtown Des Moines. Mercy Medical Center asks that workshop attendees park in the Top Value lot located at 7th Street and University Avenue. Click here to download printable directions to Mercy Medical Center, parking instructions, and a map of Mercy Medical Center's facilities.
Contact
Contact Dylan Mullenix at 515-334-0075 or at dmullenix@dmampo.org if you have any questions or would like any additional information.
Registration
This is a free event with a continental breakfast and lunch provided; however, we ask that you please register by September 22nd so that we have an accurate count for the meal orders.
Please email Dylan Mullenix at dmullenix@dmampo.org to register.
Help by Also Registering with Iowa 211
The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is working with the United Way of Central Iowa and Iowa 211 to get information about transportation providers entered into Iowa 211's database. This effort will help provide a central source for central Iowa residents to go for transportation information.
Click here to submit your organization's information to Iowa 211.
