Jason N. Meggs, MCP, MPH.

Meggs has contributed to the advancement of placemaking for walking and bicycling for over fifteen years. He was instrumental in the development of the Bicycle Boulevards network in Berkeley, trainings for new bicyclists, the creation of the Bike Station there, and in organizing numerous community building events including an eight-year annual film festival and a six-year radio show on livable streets issues. Meggs produced a number of documentaries and played the transportation superhero, Transit Man.

Meggs lead the successful campaign for equal access to the new Bay Bridge, and other bridge access campaigns. Meggs co-founded a network of activists and attorneys working to protect the rights of those who do not drive, serving since 1993 as a protector of civil rights demonstrations in numerous cities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meggs has worked on legislative issues at the local, regional, state and national levels, seeing successful legislation through from start to finish.

Meggs currently serves on the Steering Committee of the World Carfree Network, which produces the Towards Carfree Cities conference (set for York, England in 2010, beginning June 28).

Meggs holds a dual master's in City Planning and Public Health from UC Berkeley, focusing on sustainable transportation and land use from an environmental health perspective; along with a year of law; and a degree in Computer Science and Entomology, also from Berkeley.

Drastic reductions in carbon emissions; air, water and noise pollution; inequity; and the frailty of the modern built environment through Petroleum-Free Planning. Petroleum-free transportation, food production, and infrastructure provision as a public health intervention. Rapid conversion of the transport system to electric grid-connected vehicles (including rubber-tired trolleybuses and trolleytrucks) for both people and goods movement, and the phasing out of the mass use of the automobile as inherently destructive and unsustainable. "Petroleum is too harmful, and too precious, to waste on transportation."