Yesterday’s Blueprint Denver Committee included a presentation by Aylene Quale, transportation and special projects manager for the Downtown Denver Partnership. Quale heads up the Downtown Denver Transportation Management Association, one of three transportation management associations (or TMAs) in the city of Denver.
TMAs run a variety of programs to promote the use of public transit. They help developers design good, convenient public-transit connections into their site plans; they work with employers to educate their workers about public commute options; they work with elected officials to get public-transit amenities (everything from light-rail systems to bike lanes) approved and funded. More on the concept of TMAs at this link.
Between the buildout of FasTracks and the redesign of Denver Union Station, the Downtown Denver TMA has a lot going on. “We’ve got some great initiatives underway,” says Quale. “There’s FasTracks, of course, but it’s a lot more than that. The Downtown Area Plan has a lot of recommendations in it to improve transit options downtown. We’re going to need people to help us keep pushing for those recommendations to be acted on, and for those projects to be built out.”
If you’d like to be on Quale’s notification / distribution list, send her an e-mail at ayleneq@downtowndenver.com. To see her presentation at the Blueprint Denver Committee, here’s a direct link to the video — drop down the “Jump to Topics of Interest” menu below the video screen and click the “Transportation Management” line.
