Ep. 51 The Changing World of Urban Transit

Transportation accounts for about a 28% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US alone. Much of our transportation system also exacerbates related problems like air pollution and flooding. But increasingly there are calls to build our urban areas in ways that reduce these problems – chiefly, by reducing auto-dependency. On today's program we talk through questions of car-centric design with two local advocates, Alex Spike and Alondra Torres, and my co-host Dr. Casey Williams (Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Rice University). Later in the hour our researchers bring in a related story and the first in a new series called "Critter Corner."