{"id":9127,"date":"2025-09-14T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:20:46","slug":"join-our-transportation-forum-titled-what-is-the-future-for-public-transportation-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/join-our-transportation-forum-titled-what-is-the-future-for-public-transportation-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Join our Transportation Forum titled \u201cWhat is the Future for Public Transportation in Washington?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9128\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-1-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-1-1024x567.png 1024w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-1-300x166.png 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-1-768x425.png 768w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-1-97x54.png 97w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-1.png 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Come join PacTrans and the Washington Policy Center as we collaborate for a FREE panel discussion on the future of public transportation in Washington. Featured speakers will address key topics including transit performance trends, current plans and new opportunities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_header author__title\"><strong>Event Info:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"author__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-info\">10\/27\/2025<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-info\">6:30 &#8211; 8:00 PM<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-info\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Location:<\/span> Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall, Room 225, 4069 Spokane Ln NE, Seattle, WA, 98105<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Moderator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don MacKenzie (UW PI)<\/strong> &#8211; Professor of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Whisner<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Retired senior planner for King County Metro and currently a member of the City of Seattle\u2019s Transportation Levy Oversight Committee<br \/>\n<strong>Doug MacDonald<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Former WSDOT Transportation Secretary, previously served as head of the Massachusetts Bay Water Quality Authority<br \/>\n<strong>Charles Prestrud<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Director of the Coles Transportation Center at the Washington Policy Center, previously served in planning manager positions for WSDOT and Community Transit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come join PacTrans and the Washington Policy Center as we collaborate for a FREE panel discussion on the future of public transportation in Washington. Featured speakers will address key topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,20,37],"tags":[131,132],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-workforce-development","category-events","category-student-activities","tag-policy","tag-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}