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Talking Headways Podcast: When Relatives Take Transit, You Ride Too

8:17 AM PDT on March 29, 2017

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.

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