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Episode 10: What Happens When We Defund Transit + Rethinking Access
In this episode of Look Both Ways, David & Wes examine the growing efforts to defund transit through mechanisms like the Highway Trust Fund. What happens when transit funding is threatened and slowly hollowed out? Rather than treating these moves as abstract budget debates, they focus on the real-world consequences for reliability, coverage, and who gets left behind.
Today, we also talk about:
🔹 How we learn about transportation in a new city & what those first impressions reveal
🔹 What we mean when we say access & why the word often obscures more than it explains
🔹 Transportation trends in Europe that are not going the way we’d hope
Then, some listener questions and rail drinks... stay tuned for bi-weekly conversations about all things transportation!
Some additional resources:
Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners (2017)
by David Levinson, Wes Marshall, & Kay Axhausen
Politico Article: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
Politico Article: Graves pans DOT proposal axing mass transit account
Music by Charlie Van Stee
(courtesy of bensound)
Email us at [email protected]
or find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org
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In this episode of Look Both Ways, David & Wes examine the growing efforts to defund transit through mechanisms like the Highway Trust Fund. What happens when transit funding is threatened and slowly hollowed out? Rather than treating these moves as abstract budget debates, they focus on the real-world consequences for reliability, coverage, and who gets left behind.
Today, we also talk about:
🔹 How we learn about transportation in a new city & what those first impressions reveal
🔹 What we mean when we say access & why the word often obscures more than it explains
🔹 Transportation trends in Europe that are not going the way we’d hope
Then, some listener questions and rail drinks... stay tuned for bi-weekly conversations about all things transportation!
Some additional resources:
Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners (2017)
by David Levinson, Wes Marshall, & Kay Axhausen
Politico Article: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
Politico Article: Graves pans DOT proposal axing mass transit account
Music by Charlie Van Stee
(courtesy of bensound)
Email us at [email protected]
or find us at www.davidzipper.com and www.wesmarshall.org
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