Improving Birmingham’s Mass Transit

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Mass transit is a point of frustration for many Birmingham boosters, who see the bus system as woefully under developed and underfunded. But with the World Games coming to Birmingham in 2021 and the city going after other tourism events, the public transit system gains new importance. We talk about it in this week’s Magic City Marketplace. Birmingham Business Journal editor Cindy Fisher Crawford spoke with WBHM’s Andrew Yeager about the struggles transit in Birmingham has faced through the years.  They also talk about the effect of Birmingham’s food truck ordinance after two years and the state of Birmingham’s housing market.

 

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