Metro is staring down ever-more-serious long and short-term funding challenges. Tonight at 6 pm, regional officials and experts will tackle these challenges, including the prospect of dedicated funding, at a livestreamed forum we’re cosponsoring.

Once the event starts, the player above will livestream it. After it’s over, we’ll swap out the livestream player for a recording when it’s available.

The two-hour discussion will kick off with remarks from WMATA Board Chair (and DC Councilmember) Jack Evans and a response from Rob Puentes, the President of the Eno Center for Transportation and fellow at the Brookings Institution. Then, Maryland state delegate Marc Korman (D-16), Kate Mattice of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (the Virginia signatory to the WMATA compact), Emeka Moneme of Federal City Council, and Stewart Schwartz of the Coalition for Smarter Growth will join them for a panel discussion and one hour of audience Q&A.

The forum is happening at Georgetown University’s Urban and Regional Planning program, hosted by the Coalition for Smarter Growth and several partner groups including GGWash. Uwe Brandes, Executive Director of Georgetown’s planning program will moderate.

If you have questions during or before the event, you can tweet them to using the hashtag #WMATAchat. During the Q&A portion of the program, we’ll pose as many of them as possible.