I Just Got Here

Episode 12: Kevin Zolkiewicz

Talking transit, from hot-button CTA politics to charming Kenosha streetcars.

Look, you’re already here at my podcast, right?  So you’re probably kind of a dork, right?  And your ears perked up when I said “public transit”, didn’t they?  I thought so.

Transit is especially a thing here in Chicago at the moment because of the recent CTA cuts, which came into effect in February.  I called up my friend Kevin Zolkiewicz, a dedicated transit wonk who runs ChicagoBus.org, and we met up for coffee and wonkery.

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ETA: Kevin just wrote in to correct himself re: the streetcars we talked about near the end of the episode:

I should note one correction regarding PCC streetcars. They actually weren’t a government thing, but rather were designed by a committee of street car operators. I got confused with the “State of the Art” rail car design commissioned by the FTA in the 1970s.