Closing The Gap On Transportation: Solving ‘Transit Deserts’

Unrecognizable people on bus stop in city
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Unrecognizable people on bus stop in city
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Closing The Gap On Transportation: Solving ‘Transit Deserts’

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Millions of people, especially people of color, are cut off from quality food, jobs, healthcare and education, because they lack access to suitable transportation.

Reset asks the scholar and researcher who coined the term “Transit Deserts” for suggestions on solutions.

GUEST: Junfeng Jiao, associate professor in the Community and Regional Planning program and founding director of Urban Information Lab at the University of Texas - School of architecture.