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I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate One, we're discussing getting around a growing Bay Area

while also reducing carbon pollution. The economy is thriving. San Francisco streets are more jammed

than ever. New condo towers are sprouting all over the city, and roads are blocked for construction

of a new subway, the Transbay

Terminal, and a lot more. Is gridlocked a new normal, or will traffic start moving again when

the construction boom ends? Over the next hour, we will look at personal mobility and the many

new choices people have these days, including peer-to-peer car sharing services such as Get Around, and new app-based

services such as Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar.

We're going to have that conversation today in two parts.

In the second half of the hour, we will welcome four guests, including a taxi driver, a lift

driver, a reporter, and a car-sharing executive.

First, we'll hear from two transportation experts.

Jeff Hobson is the acting executive director at Transform,

a transit advocacy group based in Oakland.

And Tom Nolan is chair of the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Agency,

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