Getting on the bus

Most of my posts on LinkedIn have to do with things on wheels in cities, but my path to mobility flows through the political world. 

After serving for 5 years in the Obama-Biden White House and OMB, and a couple more on its advance staff, I started in transport because I saw it as a very different but equally important form of public service - and that's very much proven to be the case. That's because transportation justice IS core to actual justice - the places and things people can access safely, reliably, and affordably directly correlate to opportunities in life.

In just 130 days, we in the US transport world have an opportunity to help put a president in the White House committed to rebuilding the soul of America (and its transport infrastructure) - Joe Biden. As President Obama reminded over 170k supporters on a grassroots call earlier this week, it's on all of us who support VP Biden to do anything we can to support his candidacy - and then do more.

LinkedIn isn't a political platform, but it does have the benefit of more genuine dialogue and much less toxicity and abuse than Facebook and Twitter. So, I plan to use it as part of what I'm doing to advance VP Biden's candidacy, which in our current moment, means inviting you to many of the great virtual events the campaign is hosting literally (to use a Bidenism) every day. And, raising money, which you can help do at any time by clicking here.

Interested in doing more? There are a number of affinity groups you can be a part of like Clean Energy for Biden, and all kinds of regional bodies that are taking shape as we speak. If you want to plug in but don't know how, please give me a shout and I'll do anything I can to connect you to the right folks.

I appreciate if you'd rather avoid politics on here - I think most of us are ready for a future with fewer awful push alerts from Washington. But, we know the opposing campaign will be (and already is) doing anything and everything to influence this election, things much less benign than being political on LinkedIn.

So, let's see if for the next 4 months we can turn this into a forum for national political change - and then get back to our passions:  🚌 🚋 🚲 🛴 🚶‍♀️

Thank you for reading. - Louis