I have to admit, right away, that I didn’t own a copy of Inclusive Transportation until I attended Transportation Camp 2024. It’s not because the great folks at Island Press didn’t send along a copy and an invite to talk to its esteemed author. It’s because I had to give it to my mom to read, and she’s now (hopefully) passed it along to someone in her network, and so on. I did buy a copy, too—but that’s been sent on to a friend in Austin—which is within traffic’s distance to Veronica’s current stomping grounds in Houston, where she currently serves as the city’ “Director of Transportation & Drainage Operations” inside Houston’s Public Works Department. It’s a big job and I can’t think of anyone better to lead the future of one of our biggest city’s mobility and accessibility options than Veronica.
The book's full title is Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. The idea here is not contentious: we’ve, as a country, broken the connections that bind comm…
