Sarah Kaufman on the Past, Present, and Future of Transportation

The Associate Director of NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation talks the Pink Tax for transportation, designing roads for speed (not mode), and juggling a toddler, an infant, and a Metrocard.

I’m very slow at transcribing interviews. It’s the Achilles’ heel of this newsletter and the Monkey’s Paw: with greater reach and ambition, I can ask for more elusive and experienced interviews (still waiting on you Sec. Pete) but it takes longer for me to transcribe and post them. As it were, I’m just now getting to this excellent chat I had with Professor Sarah Kaufman, who’s an Associate Director at NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation, teacher, and transportation/tech optimist.

The following conversation is almost a year old, and like many other conversations I’ve conducted, evergreen. There have been some advances to OMNY, some rideshare options have entered and exited the market, and we’re still…many decades away from autonomous vehicles having…