In this episode we talk to Maria Hyatt. Maria is the Chair of Friends of Transit, the Vice Chair of the Arizona Transit Association, and a self described Transit Activist. While she currently works for Gannett Fleming as a Transportation Planner, she recently left the City of Phoenix where she served for many years at the Director of the Public Transit Department. The Metro Phoenix area has seen a lot of changes over the past twenty years and even more are on the horizon. Get the inside perspective from a transportation influencer who, many times, has been the voice of transit.