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    Right By My Old Trolleys

    June 6, 2018

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Shirley DeLibero

    Former CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) and New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit)

    Interview location: her condo in Milton, Massachusetts and Ashmont Grill in Dorchester, Massachusetts

    In one word, she describes herself as “Tenacious.”

    Shirley DeLibero, in front of her old trolleys in Milton, Massachusetts, in September 2017. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.)

    In public transportation circles, Shirley DeLibero is known as the Queen of Transit. Over the course of...

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    Roll Up Your Sleeves

    February 12, 2018

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Rhonda Briggins, MARTA

    Senior Director of External Affairs

    Interview location: MARTA Headquarters in Atlanta, GA and SIP The Experience

    In one word, she describes herself as “blessed.”

    Rhonda Briggins at the MARTA headquarters in Atlanta, GA. (Photo credit Allison Colburn).

    Before Rhonda Briggins goes home to Birmingham, Alabama for Christmas, she has to call her parents and see how many children will be at their house. In the last four decades, Rhonda’s mother and father have been foster parents to hundreds of childre...

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    Win APTA Transit System of the Year

    January 16, 2018

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Andy Byford, TTC

    Chief Executive Officer at the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)*

    Interview location: TTC Headquarters in Toronto, Ontario and on the subway.

    In two words, he describes himself as “British Patriot.”

    Andy Byford, in his office at the TTC headquarters in Toronto, with a framed Plymouth Argyle, his beloved football team’s, jersey. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach, August 2017.) 

    Andy Byford is standing at his computer when he lets me into his office, four minutes after our scheduled meeting. “I’m sorry...

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    Why is an Architect Working for a Bus Company?

    May 9, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Christine Viña, AIA

    Project Manager for Urban Design, VIA Metropolitan Transit

    Interview location: Ácenar Restaurant in San Antonio (and several other stops)

    How we got there: On foot and by bus

    In one word, she describes herself as “unpredictable”

    Christine Viña wearing her pins and medals, by the famous San Antonio Riverwalk in 2016. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.)

    San Antonio is in the middle of Fiesta, a two-week party, and the colorful city has mariachi music spilling out of every corner. Tomorrow is the Bat...

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    Social Worker for Transit

    April 26, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Jeremy Johnson-Miller

    Mobility Coordinator at the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT)

    Interview location: At the Iowa DOT and a café in downtown Ames, Iowa

    How we got there: by CyRide Bus

    He describes himself with the word, “Passionate.”

    Jeremy Johnson-Miller in 2017. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.)

    Though Jeremy Johnson-Miller was born in the 1980s, he doesn’t like the title millennial. “I feel like millennials get a bad rap,” he says, noting that they’re often accused of being “entitled, or not hard working....

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    On the Side of Angels

    April 11, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Joel Volinski

    Director at the National Center for Transportation Research

    Interview location: Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida in Tampa

    How we got there: On foot from the parking lot where I parked my rental car

    In one word, he describes himself as “Fair.” 

    Joel Volinski in 2017. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.)

    When Joel Volinski accepted a job as the interim director of Florida’s Broward County Transit Agency in 1983, he had never ridden on a public transit bus. “Here I was, th...

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    What’s Up with the Uber-Lyft Study?

    March 28, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Susan Shaheen

    Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center; Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; Director, Innovative Mobility Research

    Interview location: TSRC office in Berkeley, California and the Royal Exchange Restaurant in San Francisco, California.

    In one word, she describes herself as “innovative.”

    Susan Shaheen on the UC-Berkeley campus in 2017. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.)

    Susan Shaheen climbs into the backseat of a white P...

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    Transit Trivia

    March 14, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    In late-January, the New York Transit Museum hosted its Fifth Annual Transit Trivia Competition in downtown Brooklyn.  People Who Move People writer Laura Lee Huttenbach was there with a microphone to document the evening. 

    In this eleven-minute podcast, she speaks to participants and organizers alike, earning a new respect for all the people who love and work in public transit. 

    People Who Move People is a web series profiling individuals who have made an impact in public transit. The series has been initiated and funde...

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    Movement on Wheels

    February 21, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on John Lewis

    U.S. Representative for Georgia’s Fifth District,

    “Big Six” Leader of Civil Rights

    Interview location: Congressman Lewis’s office in Atlanta, Georgia, and aboard the Streetcar

    He describes himself with the word “Patience.”

    Congressman John Lewis in his office. Atlanta, GA - 2016 (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.)

    As the Greyhound pulled into the Rock Hill, South Carolina, bus station, the Ku Klux Klan readied their fists and pipes. It was May 9, 1961. The bus was carrying the “Freedom Riders,” a group of...

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    To Change the Mobility Game

    January 24, 2017

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach

    Profile on Nuria Fernandez

    General Manager/CEO for Valley Transit Authority (VTA) in San Jose, CA) 

    Interview location: VTA Headquarters in San Jose, CA

    In one word, she describes herself as “fearless.”

    When Nuria Fernandez was growing up in Panama, water was a big part of her world. In addition to living by the water, she spent a couple summers interning at one of the canal locks of the Panama Canal, a feat of engineering that her great-grandfather had helped to construct. “But for some reason I’ve always been in surface [tra...

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    Laura Lee Huttenbach, an Atlanta native and a graduate of the University of Virginia, is a curious traveler with a terrible sense of direction, which she considered to be a handicap until an old man named Tony Gulliver pointed out: “It’s probably your best quality, because you’re always finding new places.” Laura Lee’s first book is “The Boy is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General” (Ohio University Press, 2015), the life story of a Kenyan independence leader whom she met while backpacking in Africa. You can learn more about her projects at www.LLHuttenbach.com.

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