Interview with Sam Sargent, Director of Strategy for Austin Transit Partnership

In this week's episode Sam Sargent from beautiful Austin, Texas joins us to talk about Project Connect and the Austin Transit Partnership. Project Connect is a $7 billion transit program for the greater Austin area. This transformational program will connect communities, spur transit oriented development, and provide one of the country's largest equity investments to ensure access to affordable housing along its high capacity corridors. Austin Transit Partnership has followed the successes and challenges of implementing light rail transit for the metropolitan Phoenix area and is applying lessons learned from our system. They've been joined recently by local transit rock stars including Alvin Livingstone and Jennifer Pyne and Brian Buchanan has been leading HDR's efforts as their program manager. Sam shares a wealth of information about how they achieved success at the ballot, what they've been doing since the initiative passed, and what's ahead for this exciting new program!