Former NYC Transportation Commissioner Says Fear Of COVID-19 On Public Transit Is Unjustified

the C train during the COVID-19 pandemic

As COVID-19 cases in New York City continue declining and the wheels start turning on the city's reopening process, a lot of people are wondering when -- or if -- it will be safe to take public transit again. But in a recent essay in The Atlantic, Janette Sadik-Khan says there's no real evidence that subways and buses spread the coronavirus, and there's growing research that in fact suggests otherwise.

Listen to Sadik-Khan's conversation with WNYC's Kerry Nolan, above.