“We need public transportation to come back because we need our cities to come back, and we need our economy to come back.”

As COVID-19 affects public transit dramatically, we’re proud to present a special edition of Transit Unplugged led by transit evangelist and Trapeze VP Paul Comfort. In today's episode, we discuss how COVID-19 may lead to the death of the farebox. We then hear from David Zipper, a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, about how he believes COVID-19 will influence Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). Plus, Christian Kent reads his chapter from the bestselling new book, “The Future of Public Transportation.”

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