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Hi everybody welcome to Shifts a podcast about mobility I'm Pete Bigelow your host and reporter at the automotive news.

Hey it's Leslie Allen editor at Shift magazine.

Hi there it's Alexis St. John, covering Tech and suppliers.

On the podcast today, we're pleased to have joining us Anthony Fox, former Secretary of

the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama.

Today he's with us discussing President Biden's infrastructure proposal,

the appeal of removing certain highways and ways

to ensure that all communities benefit from transportation's future.

Alexa off the bat here obviously we've already talked to Anthony.

I'm curious if you have any key takeaways from our conversation before we go to our interview.

Yeah, I mean I really enjoyed our conversation with Anthony. I was so glad he was able to join us.

One of the things that really stands out to me that I think you know we're

covering more and more and trying to look at more and more is this idea of transportation

equity. We know that you know some issues with inequities stem back a long time to the

highways which you know we'll get into quite a bit during the episode but I

really think that this is getting a lot more attention throughout the industry.

Things like making the autonomous shuttles of the future more accessible, making sure that the innovations and technologies that companies are working on now benefit all communities and don't do hurt to communities.

Things like urban air mobility is one thing that comes to mind where noise could be more harmful than helpful in some areas.

So I really appreciated his comments addressing a lot of those topics and I think it's something that

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