Greg Youell is the executive director of MAPA and our guest at the upcoming coffee chat, September, 16. We wanted to discover a little more about Greg, so we asked him Five Questions . . .
1. What is your preferred mode of transportation?
Walking in the beautiful outdoors.
2 What, in your opinion, is the greatest challenge to multi-modal transportation in Omaha?
Getting “over the hump” to get a robust mass transit system started.
3 What, in your opinion, the the greatest multi-modal success in Omaha?
4 How did you come to have an interest in transportation?
Began working at the Kansas City MPO, the Mid America Regional Council (MARC).
5. If you could magically change one thing about the transportation systems in Omaha, without limit to budget or feasibility, what would it be?
Heartland 2050’s Close the Gap Plan!