This episode is brought to you by Eaton. We make the Electric Revolution work. You're going to be. Hi everybody.

welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm your host Pete Bigelow.

Hi Pete, hi everybody, this is Leslie Allen.

Welcome to the show.

Joining us on today's show is Andy Coons, the president and CEO of the U.S. High-Speed

Rail Association.

Leslie, I'm very excited to talk to Andy here

in a few minutes because Rail is a subject

we have not yet explored here on the Shift Podcast

in more than 130 episodes.

So it's about time that we venture into new territory.

And but before we do that, and speaking of venturing into new territory, do you want to share what I think is the biggest news of the week?

Obviously there's a lot going on in the mobility world, but nothing bigger than some news that you want to share with our

listeners today. Well it's sort of a little bit of inside baseball here but

this will be my final episode of the podcast as your co-host.

I am moving on from Automotive News after 16 years and I have an exciting new venture that I can talk about at some

later time but it's been wonderful. I have had the time of my life. This is a lot of fun, and I really

wish the best for this podcast. I'm going to continue to listen to the podcast. It's great. Mobility is a fun topic. It's an important topic. This is right on the cutting edge of what's happening in our industry. And there is no journalists on the planet in my opinion who is on top of this topic more than Pete Bigelow so I I I wish you the best and thank everybody for listening for all these episodes. I guess I've been a part of most of those 130 plus episodes.

Yes. It's been fun.

It's been fun.

We have some great guests and wow, what a way to end,

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