like it can have such big repercussions and it's so exciting this like new generation of political leaders it feels like they're actually taking that stuff seriously

i hope so yeah and i hope yeah i hope we have you know she has the city has the coalition of advocates have enough juice to really make a a change this this upcoming year because you know one of the reasons we can't have nice things is that uh you know they they cost too much and they're too slow because of some of this so totally yeah i can also share too some brt news from seattle this being a a transit uh podcast but uh we sort of less positive news um the neighborhood i live in is a one of the more low-income neighborhoods in seattle definitely historically redlined has a lot of some of the highest density of low car no car transit dependent households immigrant households and we have a bus line the seven that's one of the highest ridership routes in this city it's you know it's it's a local bus it's not the fastest but it runs really frequently and provides a real lifeline for our community and The city has been, with federal funding, trying to upgrade certain lines to BRT.

And so this line was sort of in the queue to get upgraded before the pandemic.

It didn't happen.

And part of the reason it didn't happen is there was a lot of pushback from the community being like, well, we would love BRT, but we don't want to lose our local bus service.

We need these local stops.

There's a lot of elders, people with groceries, people with kids need this local service.

And then, you know, having a