According to the US Census Bureau, 90% of the population growth in the United States will take place in suburban areas this decade. The federal government was not being helpful at all with funding for interstates that were funded in 1956. So what's on the table to break the doom loop? That is the big question. There are some identified opportunities like congestion pricing in New York City.
Transit agencies nationwide are facing an existential crisis. Washington, DC’s city council has a paradoxical solution: make subways and buses free.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Additional help from Miles Bryan and Jolie Myers.
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