It’s Time to Choose: A Conversation on Transit with Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Janette Sadik-Khan

It’s Time to Choose: A Conversation on Transit with Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Janette Sadik-Khan

Join ThinkTennessee for a lively and informative discussion on the proposed transportation improvement program (TIP), Choose How You Move, with Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and world-renowned transportation expert and author Janette Sadik-Khan at the Tennessee State Museum. This free, in-person event will delve into the details of the Choose How You Move plan, lessons from around the world, and the future of transportation in our city. Don't miss out on this exciting conversation!

Speakers:

• Mayor Freddie O'Connell, Mayor of Nashville
• Janette Sadik-Khan, Principal, Bloomberg Associates
• Erin Hafkenschiel, President, ThinkTennessee
  

Spots are limited, so RSVP as soon as possible to save your seat! Please direct all questions to [email protected].

Presenting sponsors: HNTB and Kimley-Horn

About Mayor Freddie O'Connell:

Freddie O'Connell is the tenth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

He served on the Metro Council from 2015 to 2023 representing District 19, which includes the downtown core, Germantown, and parts of North Nashville.

In his time on the Metro Council, he worked to limit the impact of poverty, to strengthen neighborhoods, and to make sure everyone participates as our economy grows. He oversaw an overhaul of the Metro Homelessness Commission as well as an increase in the number of Nashvillians who benefit from property tax freezes and rebates, and passed green energy bills that reduce costs for Metro, ensure cleaner air and water, and increase climate resiliency.

Mayor O'Connell has served as a member of the Charter Revision Committee, the Planning, Zoning, and Historical Committee, Public Works Committee (Chair), and the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Committee (Chair). He has also served as a member on various special committees that serve Nashville residents including the Nashville Downtown Partnership Board of Directors (Ex Officio), the Central Business Improvement District Board of Directors (Ex Officio), the Gulch Business Improvement District Board of Directors (Ex Officio), the District Energy System Advisory Board, and the South Central Neighborhood Development Corporation Board of Directors.

About Janette Sadik-Khan:

One of the leading voices on urban transportation policy, Janette Sadik-Khan is internationally respected for her transformative redesigns of New York City streets and rapid-implementation strategies that are being replicated today in cities around the world. ​

She was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2007–2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, leading one of the most sweeping revitalizations of the city’s streets in a half-century.

During her tenure, New York City added nearly 400 miles of bike lanes and the first parking-protected bike paths in North America. The department she led set in motion more than 60 plazas across the city, including the historic plazas that shut Broadway through Times Square, sparking economic recovery throughout the area. She worked with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to launch the city’s first six rapid bus lines and oversaw hundreds of intersection and street redesigns that contributed to the city’s record-low traffic fatalities. Mrs. Sadik-Khan oversaw the 2013 launch of Citi Bike, the nation’s largest bike share system, which to date has been used more than 22 million times and is doubling in size to 12,000 bikes.

She currently advises mayors of cities around the world as a principal at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy established by Michael Bloomberg to help cities around the world improve the quality of life of their citizens. She assists mayors and their teams in developing street redesigns in cities from Los Angeles to Mexico City to Rio and Athens.

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