Join Alaska Common Ground as they host a series of panels of local experts and citizens exploring transportation issues and solutions. In this panel discussion titled: How does transportation planning work and how do I engage? they’ll take on issues that affect us locally and what it takes to make changes, both through policy and government collaboration.
SPEAKERS:
- Lois Epstein – Engineer, Former Director of the AK Transportation Priorities Project
- Jennifer Witt – Former planner, AK DOT&PF Alaska Common Ground Witt
- Anne Brooks – Brooks and Associates
- Jessica Smith – Planner, Mat-Su Borough 2017 LRTP RoadShow
MODERATOR:
- John Parsi – ACG Board Member
HOST: Alaska Common Ground
LINKS:
- From Here to the Future: Transforming Anchorage/Mat-Su Transportation
- A link to the full audio from this discussion posted to Soundcloud
- http://msblrtp2035.com/
- Matanuska-Susitna Long Range Transportation Plan
RECORDED: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 49th State Brewing Company.
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Eric Bork, or you can just call him “Bork” because everybody else does, is the FM Operations Manager for KSKA-FM. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the FM broadcast. He produces and edits episodes of Outdoor Explorer, the Alaska-focused outdoors program. He also maintains the web posts for that show. You may have heard him filling in for Morning Edition or hosting All Things Considered and can still find him operating the soundboard for any of the live broadcast programs.
After escaping the Detroit area when he was 18, Bork made it up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Communications/Radio Broadcasting from Northern Michigan University. He spent time managing the college radio station, working for the local NPR affiliate, and then in top 40 radio in Michigan before coming to Alaska to work his first few summers. After then moving to Chicago, it only took five years to convince him to move back to Alaska in 2010. When not involved in great radio programming he’s probably riding a bicycle, thinking about riding bicycles, dreaming about bikes, reading a book, or planning the next place he’ll travel to. Only two continents left to conquer!
