Episode 3: Innovation, Infrastructure, and Equity in Transportation with MTA Board Member Midori Valdivia

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On this episode of Curb Enthusiasm, Emily Weidenhof and Diniece Mendes chat with Midori Valdivia, a board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and a veteran of major transportation agencies in New York City, including the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. The conversation focuses on the importance of buses, how transportation needs evolve at different stages of life, how street safety can be fun and make neighborhoods more livable, how cities can work together on transportation, equity and opportunity in the transportation field, and much more.

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1. Episode 3: Innovation, Infrastructure, and Equity in Transportation with MTA Board Member Midori Valdivia (00:00:00)

2. What's working well in the Metropolitan Transit Authority (00:00:55)

3. Innovations of the MTA (00:02:40)

4. A look back at Midori's career journey (00:05:52)

5. Empathy in transportation policy and how our needs change throughout life (00:09:19)

6. Sustainable transportation and how the NYC DOT works with the MTA (00:13:53)

7. The 14th Street Bus Way (00:16:37)

8. What the transportation profession needs to grow in diversity (00:21:11)

9. Midori's story about getting a seat at the table (00:23:39)

10. Building a community in the transportation field (00:26:37)

11. The biggest breach of subway etiquette (00:28:45)

12. What Midori is most enthusiastic about for the future of transportation (00:30:00)

13. A message from NYC DOT Commissioner Rodriguez (00:30:54)