Challenging What You Know About America's Highways
Jay Blazek Crossley joins the Book Club lineup!
Have you signed up for ACT's Book Club meeting on September 2? City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways will be a discussion about America's highways, their history, and their far-reaching impacts on our work in transportation.
This book explores how urban highways contribute to traffic, displacement, and disinvestment, and speaker Jay Blazek Crossley of Farm & City will be joining the conversation. Jay will share what you should know about highway project development and advocacy issues that matter.
Tune in to this discussion to learn more about these systems and what it would take to shape a more just future for all!
Keep reading below to learn about speaker Jay Blazek Crossley.
Qualifies for 2 TDM-CP credits.
Jay Blazek Crossley was born in Whitney, grew up in Montrose, came to Austin for ten years to get two degrees from the University of Texas, moved back to Houston for ten years to work for Houston Tomorrow, and moved back to Austin in 2016. He holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the LBJ School at UT-Austin and the LINE Certificate from the Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives at Rice University, and lives in Austin with his wife and son.
Crossley serves on the Austin Transit Partnership Community Advisory Committee, the Capital Area Regional Transit Coordination Committee, the Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan Stakeholder Committee and several emphasis area teams, and as the Chair of the Board of Safe Streets Austin. He formerly served as a member of the Board of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, Chair of the Austin Pedestrian Advisory Council, Chair of the Houston-Galveston Area Council Pedestrian-Bicyclist Subcommittee, and many other public service roles.
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
By Megan Kimble
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