Jam-Packed Subways

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 29, 2014

September saw the most riders on the subway since the 1940s - a time before widespread car ownership and suburban expansion. Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock" Sam at the Daily News, former NYC traffic commissioner and president and CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering (a traffic planning and engineering firm), talks about why ridership is so high and what it means for transit planning.

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