Special Briefing: The Future of Mass Transportation under Trump and the GOP

This Special Briefing will focus on the future of mass transportation under the new Administration and Congress.

Our expert panel will discuss the upsurge in construction funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as well as solutions to hundreds of billions of dollars in budgetary shortfalls facing transit networks from coast to coast. Speakers to be confirmed.

Moderated by William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance Public Finance Adviser and Penn IUR Fellow, and Genie Birch, Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Planning Professor at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design) at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, this briefing is the fifty-eighth in a series of sixty-minute online conversations featuring experts from the national research networks of the Volcker Alliance and Penn IUR, along with other leading academics, economists, and federal, state, and local leaders. 

Special Briefings are made possible by funding from The Travelers Institute, the Volcker Alliance, and members of the Penn IUR Advisory Board. Recordings of the entire Special Briefings series are available on the Volcker Alliance or Penn IUR websites. 

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