Aaron Gordon on the Past, Present, and Future of Transportation

The prolific and insightful transportation reporter for Motherboard talks MTA's debt, reckoning with a 50 year old environmental law, and localizing transportation decision-making.

Aaron Gordon might be the most talented transportation reporter the United States has got right now—and it wasn’t even planned that way. Before writing and uncovering a wide range of transportation scoops and analyses, Aaron was a sports writer. The world that was build upon winners and losers gave him a real knack for the parallel behavior that’s run rampant in the very exciting world of transportation policy.

Except instead of the Red Sox vs. the Yankees, Aaron’s new job was to observe and report on the struggle between highways and mass transit in the United States. It’s probably not even fair to compare this to the Boston/New York matchup; what we’re seeing in this country is a fight between the Yankees and your kid’s little league team. It’s been Aaron’s job for over four years to tell us why it’s still worth a bet on Bobby from down the street. And don’t even get him started on the internal strife of the US Postal Service, which like any dysfunctional club, has been plagued by mi…