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Your Host
Welcome to Transportopia! Our blog and podcast (coming soon!) is hosted by Rick L'Amie. Rick is passionate about public transport and is dedicated to bringing you insightful stories and interviews with transit experts, riders, community leaders, aficionados, historians and futurists, Our goal: engaging and sometimes humorous conversations that will take you on a journey through the historical developments of public transit, what's happening now, and a look into the future, providing a deep dive into the world of transportation. Together, let's pursue that perfect and wonderfully harmonious state of transit and utopia. Transportopia.
Rick L'Amie
Rick L'Amie s a public transportation enthusiast with a keen interest in the social impact of transportation. Following a career telling stories as a television news reporter and newsroom executive, Rick worked in corporate public relations and later as a marketing director for CapMetro in Austin, VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio, and currently works for the North Central Regional Transit District Blue Bus in Northern New Mexico. He hopes his unique perspective and storytelling abilities will bring a fresh angle to the blog and podcast, inspiring our followers to see public transport in a new light.