Three mayors of Southern, car-centric cities discussed their efforts to improve public transportation during an Oct. 5 panel at an American Public Transportation Association conference in Chicago.
The authority is now looking to reorient its services around post-pandemic travel patterns and population growth while adding services including light rail.
The common threads among these cities have been population growth and migration toward downtowns.
“I can build a whole lot of so-called affordable housing, but it's not really affordable unless I also fix the transportation system around that,” he said.
Holt said “a historic transportation initiative for 2027” is underway to prepare for population growth and the traffic congestion that could come with that.