Speaking Event Invitation for JP Sweeney of CATTCC to speak on September 23, 2025 at:
80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) in NYC
Letter from the Director:
As CATTCC Director, my writing has earned an invitation to this very prestigious event. This session’s topic is sustainability. The invitation is to speak at the UN Delegate Meeting Banquet Room. This is a premier, invitation only event. As one of the most exclusive political organizations on the planet, there is a cost to attend.
In looking at a way to cover the costs, since I live in Central California, it seemed the people to benefit most from my speech would be the Central California Counties effected by the loss of Federal Funds for California’s High Speed Rail project. I put a two-page letter together and presented it to six of the Valley’s Board of Supervisor’s Offices, addressing each of the District Supervisors. The following is the majority of content in that letter:
This letter is seeking sponsorships to cover costs for the trip. The Valley counties have the most profit to gain from my speaking at the UN.
The reason I was invited to speak at this event is the fact that I’m one of the leading experts on the future of transportation. As a brief background, my expertise in sustainable urban growth and new technology transit system technology led me to become a best-selling author and the director of CATTCC.org (Center of Advanced Transportation Technology and Climate Choice). This site has posted 200 of my articles about sustainable urban growth, advanced transit, and theoretical physics treatises pursuing transportation’s future technology.
Regarding this appeal seeking sponsorship, I’m a Fresno resident and raised in Clovis. Being an expert of urban growth and transportation patterns, my understanding for sustainable solutions allows a unique perspective to represent the pressing valley issues with the California’s High-Speed Rail project. My speech at the UN is a lobbying effort to attract a sustainable transit technology solution for CA’s HSR project. The opportunity to utilize the CA’s HSR ROWs and its completed segments of grade separate infrastructure, provides a launch point for immediate implementation using modern transit technology system solutions; beyond HSR. I’ve been closely following CA’s HSR project since 1993 when it began as a feasibility study. This project has turned from an innovative venture to a globally recognized failure. The 80th UN General Assembly’s focus on sustainability, is timed perfectly as a signal to encourage innovative sustainable transportation solutions.
Timing with the importance of a global stage, seeking UN support; is unprecedented and a monumental moment of global attention for the valley. The topic for this 80th United Nations General Assembly in NYC is sustainability, urban growth is a prime concern.
How does my speech impact the valley?
In simple terms, the Downtown areas of Bakersfield, Hanford, Fresno, Madera, and Merced were originally developed with a transit-oriented land-use design. They were the commerce centers and served by trains and streetcars. During the 1930s the automobile emerged as the predominant source of transportation and began eroding the strategic commerce hubs. When recognizing that all urban growth is based on an area’s primary source of transportation, the land-use design of the downtowns became dysfunctional.
Here’s a quick lesson about land-use: there are four fundamental types of land-use: nature, agriculture, transit oriented, and automobile centric land-use design. All urban growth is based on its primary source of transportation. Land-use zoning is irrelevant to its prime function.
The ONLY way to revitalize these vital downtown commerce areas is to immediately reintroduce transit to these essential and established transit-oriented land-use designed areas with advanced transit system technology. Transit-oriented land-use development is dysfunctional without the transit component: automobiles are incompatible with the transit-oriented design.
With California’s building of a massive transit infrastructure project through the valley, that is now being further disrupted by the elimination of needed capital funds, what will happen? By addressing a strong message to the UN’s push towards its 2030 sustainability objective, it presents a unique opportunity to introduce a modern transportation solution for global support.
With $15billion already invested in the valley, the CA HSR project can become giant piles of useless concrete waste, or alternatively, become a global showcase of modern transit system technology functionality.
The valley communities have this opportunity to lobby UN support.
The cost of attending the UN meeting is $10k per plate. The speaking fee is $25k for five minutes. Flight and hotel fees for 3 days, $4k, speaking fee $25k. consultant fee $4k, total expense $33k. The sponsorship request is $1,000 per district for the 6 Valley Counties.
This letter is a request of support in sponsoring the costs involved for the trip to NY. For those interested in supporting this message being addressed to the to the UN, please contact me, or go to the CATTCC.org/signup page and subscribe with any donation amount to the Award Member button.
Due to the lack of response over the past week, after traveling to each of the six county’s Board of Supervisor’s Offices and hand delivering the letters at the main desk, here is an update which will be delivered to the Supervisor’s Offices. Additionally, other letters will go to more of the local political representatives.
Sponsorship Update
Upon requesting a sponsorship from the County Supervisors, it has come to my attention that many of the Supervisors throughout the valley are unaware of recent events regarding California’s High Speed Rail project. On July 17th, federal funds were suspended by the Transportation Secretary’s Office. This was after their complete analysis of their four-month audit.
How will this effect each of the counties?
After the Federal Transportation Director’s meeting with State legislators in February, State Assembly member David Tangipa authored AB 377 which instructs the State to provide a business plan to include a cost analysis with a funding mechanism by May 1st, 2026. This bill was signed into law by the governor on July 31st.
Some people have great confidence in California’s governor. Perhaps he can attract the private sector to subsidize the State’s rail project, or at least rearrange the State’s budget to find a few $billion to complete the valley segment of the train. If that doesn’t work as the governor terms out; what happens to the massive structures throughout the valley.
The future of transportation in the valley is more important than HSR
Modern advanced transit technology systems are my expertise. My work brings viable solutions for the future of the valley’s transportation.
Beyond HSR are the important aspects of urban growth. All urban growth is based on its primary source of transportation. Are any of you aware that every California freeway built in California since the mid-80s includes a median that is allocated a light-rail rights-of-ways? Did you also know that Governor Pat Brown allocated the median of Hwy 5 a designated passenger rail ROW?
Viable transit is found with modern transit technology. This happens with private sector participation through active real estate development within existing transportation corridors.
Improvement through education
Global support is essential for advancing transportation technology. it’s accomplished by educating awareness, building solutions for the tremendous transportation demands. Although I feel the UN should pay me instead of charging me to speak, the cost opens the opportunity for the valley counties to be represented by sponsoring my costs.
Here’s a breakdown of the costs involved for me to present a short speech at the UN’s 80th Assembly about sustainability at the Banquet Hall. Let me clarify, the request to cover costs are reduced by sharing the sponsorship to $1,000 per district. Again, my purpose in being given the opportunity to speak at this UN 80th Assembly, is due to my transportation expertise that has been recognized by UN members in the sustainability field. The fees involved are due to the fact that the UN is very political with exorbitant political fees to attend, at every level. I could speak at a local Rotary club, eat for free and even be paid a gratuitous speaking amount.
My speech is geared to represent viable transportation answers for the valley. This incredible invitation can gain global support for the implementation of modern transportation technology system solutions in the Valley.
Anyone who has at least skimmed through my bestselling book about sustainable urban growth and transportation, or clicked through the www.CATTCC.org website; is aware of the many available alternative transportation technology system solutions and methodologies for the future of transportation. As one of the book themes says: trains are a 200-year-old transportation technology, cars are 125 years old, and airplanes are 100 years old. The new technologies are much more efficient, cost a tenth of the cost to implement and up to twenty times faster. Rather than implementing an antiquated transportation technology that’s advanced for 1925, California is now poised with 2025 transportation solutions.
Prepared in my speech is the laying of groundwork which directs attention to the monumental importance of sustainable urban growth as the central theme in the UN’s push towards sustainability; according to their own work. The main theme throughout CATTCC’s efforts is the recognition that all urban growth is founded upon an area’s primary source of transportation. Transportation has to be sustainable: environmentally, economically, and socially.
Please contribute so that we are able to attend this important event. Thank you!