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Still recovering from COVID-19, US public transit tries to get back on track

  • Written by Kari Edison Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
Still recovering from COVID-19, US public transit tries to get back on trackRidership on public transit had been declining even before the spread of the virus.Leo Patrizi/E+ via Getty Images

U.S. commuters take approximately 10 billion trips on public transit every year. SciLine asked Kari Watkins, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis, what cities can do to...

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