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Cat Carter is with San Francisco Transit Riders, a group that backs an affordable and growing public transit system. She discusses what she would like to see in public transit, such as more user-friendly transit options, less congestion on the roads and a 30-by-30 program, to be put in place by 2030, whereby riders can use rapid-network routes in San Francisco that take 30 minutes from start to finish.

Something like 60 percent of the increasing congestion since 2010 is due to ride shares … And the streets are clogged. And the only way to fix that is to get public transit to where people can really use it.” —  Cat Carter, San Francisco Transit Riders

I host and report for “Civic,” a San Francisco public affairs radio show and podcast from the Public Press. I've been a multimedia reporter and producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've reported on housing, health, immigration and homelessness for local news site Mission Local and produced conversations about local, regional and national current affairs for “Your Call,” a live call-in program on KALW-FM public radio.