David Zipper on the Past, Present, and Future of Transportation

The Harvard scholar, city advocate, and multi-platformed author and investor talks about access, sidewalks, and "decongestion" pricing.

I’m always fortunate to get very busy people to slow down for a half-hour to talk with me about the basics. It’s the very foundation of this newsletter—what are we doing? Why are we doing it? And what can we do better? David Zipper is a multi-hyphenate investor and intellectual who’s helping his audience (and now my audience) think through some of his questions about why things are the way they are in our cities, and what we can do, individually and collectively, to improve our quality of life.

He’s taken a totally different path to transportation than I did; different than so much of my network has, but he’s better for it. His perspective helps to give information and a voice to lots of people across the internet, which is where our opinions can change minds and influence our leaders.

The conversation below was recorded in February 2021 and has been edited for clarity, relevanc…