University to host public-transportation forum Nov. 18

The University of South Carolina’s College of Engineering and Computing will present a forum on public transportation for Columbia at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Amoco Hall at the Swearingen Engineering Center on South Main Street.

The forum, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

Among the topics to be addressed: economic and environmental implications of public transportation; government funding for a public-transportation system; and how the lack of public transportation will affect people who don’t drive.

Panelists will include Columbia Mayor Bob Coble; Susan Richards, a transportation consultant and the transportation director for the League of Women Voters of South Carolina; Deepal Eliatamby, president of Alliance Engineering; Tripp Gregory, vice president for human resources at Palmetto Health; and Sven Larson of the S.C. Policy Council. Charles Bierbauer, dean of the university’s College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, will be the moderator.

For more information, contact Dr. Chris Toumey at 803-777-2221 or Toumey@sc.edu.