Talking Headways Podcast: When Relatives Take Transit, You Ride Too
This week's guest is Darnell Grisby, director of policy development and research at the American Public Transportation Association. We discuss the national drop in transit ridership, who rides transit in the United States, and federal policy going forward.
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Jeff Wood
2:00 PM EDT on March 28, 2017
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This week’s guest is Darnell Grisby, director of policy development and research at the American Public Transportation Association. We discuss the national drop in transit ridership, who rides transit in the United States, and federal policy going forward. Darnell also talks about new technologies that might be coming to transit agencies, including autonomous buses, better payment systems, and more.
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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