Jeff Meilbeck, General Manager of the
Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority (NAIPTA) in Flagstaff, Ariz., joins the CTPodcast to discuss NAIPTA and its tremendous growth — from 100,000 rides 13 years ago, to 1.8 million today. NAIPTA, like many other small-urban transit systems, is thriving, but needs sufficient federal bus and bus facility investment to maintain its services and meet burgeoning local demand. Given Flagstaff's current bus and bus facility formula allocation, it will take 48 years, according to Meilbeck, for the agency to have enough investment to build the facility the system and community needs. In this conversation, Jeff also explains the importance of the Small Transit Intensive City program and urges its expansion.
Meilbeck is a leader with CTAA's Small Urban Network (SUN). For more information on the SUN click
here. He presented at the SUN Legislative Staff Briefing, those materials are available
here.
For the latest information on MAP-21 reauthorization, click
here.
LISTEN HERE: (13:04)
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