US public transit systems desperately need an upgrade
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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One of the biggest legislative victories of the Biden administration is the trillion dollar infrastructure bill that he signed into law in November 2021. About half is expected to pour into America’s broadband, utilities and transportation systems over the coming months and years. In communities across the country, people are grappling with how they’ll use that money. Today's guest, Jonathan English, is a fellow in the Transportation and Land Use program of the NYU Marron Institute. He shares his knowledge about what may be possible for transit in America in the years to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Five Things, I'm James Brown, Go Bills. |
| 0:09.8 | Every week we take an idea or concept and go deep, and this week is about mass transit. |
| 0:16.8 | One of the biggest legislative victories of the Biden administration is the trillion-dollar |
| 0:20.4 | infrastructure bill that he signed into law in November 2021. |
| 0:25.4 | But half of that bill is expected to pour into America's broadband utilities and transportation |
| 0:31.0 | systems over the coming months in years. |
| 0:34.8 | It communities across the country, leaders and citizens alike are grappling with how they'll |
| 0:39.7 | use this money to fix their transit systems. |
| 0:43.2 | Today's guest has a few ideas. |
| 0:45.6 | Jonathan English is a fellow in the Transportation and Land Use program of NYU's Marin Institute. |
| 0:52.4 | You can find him on Twitter at English Rail. |
| 0:55.6 | As his handle hints at, his specialty is rail travel. |
| 0:59.5 | And of course, transit. |
| 1:08.4 | Jonathan English, welcome to Five Things. |
| 1:10.4 | Well hello and thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, thanks for being here. |
| 1:14.4 | My pleasure. |
| 1:15.4 | You've made a career in part by analyzing American transit. |
| 1:20.2 | In particular, New York system. |
| 1:22.8 | What's the appeal? |
| 1:23.8 | Well, you know, it's interesting, right? |
| 1:25.2 | It's been around for a lot longer than most places. |
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