Welcome to Citiwire.net! After years of avoiding a column on population issues, I’m making the dive this week… it’s an increasingly compelling issue we can’t just keep ignoring. Would welcome any thoughts you may have in response. The guest Citiwire column, on the success predicament of public transit, is by a man who knows it well — Tom Downs, Citistates Group Associate, career public servant and veteran CEO of agencies ranging from New Jersey Transit to Amtrak.
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