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While summer hasn't officially started yet, in NYC it's very much starting to feel like it! We've had a full schedule over the past weeks with scavenger hunts, a talk with the head of North America's largest transit system, and even a hike! Here's a dispatch from one of our members about the experience he [...]
YPT-Nashville and Walk Bike Nashville teamed up to co-host a movie screening on March 22 at the Carmike Bellevue movie theater. Almost 100 attendees showed up to see Bikes vs. Cars, which premiered at the SXSW film festival. The movie explores how issues facing cyclists stem from the inability of city infrastructures to provide for both bikes and [...]
YPT is thrilled to announce that we are partnering with GreaterPlaces on a transportation-themed expansion deck to the card game Cards Against Urbanity!! This is an exciting opportunity and we need your help coming up with card ideas!! If you are not familiar, it is a hilarious and educational urban planning-themed version of the hit card [...]
Announcing the 2nd Annual YPT Award Winners! First, we want to congratulate Jaime McKay and her team for winning the Young Professionals Transportation Project of the Year Award. Ms. McKay submitted the Central Maryland Regional Transit’s Transportation Resource Information Point (TRIP) Team's project. It is a long-overdue solution and development for public transit in rural and suburban Maryland. The [...]
The NYC chapter of Young Professionals in Transportation celebrated the year earlier this month at The Half Pint. The YPT-NYC chapter had much to be merry about this year, including an ever-growing membership, an incredibly successful summer tour series with trips to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub and the decommissioned City Hall subway station, [...]