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Talking Headways Podcast: Avoiding Carbon Emissions by Taking Transit

4:32 PM EDT on July 6, 2017

This week we’re coming to you from the UITP Global Transport Summit in Montreal with guest Projjal Dutta, director of sustainability at the New York MTA. We chat about the idea of "transit-avoided carbon," how you measure emissions, and the impact of Superstorm Sandy on sustainability thinking in the New York region.

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