GETTING AROUND GREATER BOSTON can be a nightmare, and it’s holding back our economy and quality of life. With traffic apps showing a spidery network of solid red roadways from dawn until well into the evening, we’ve gone past the era of “rush hour” into a near-constant state of urban gridlock. That reality is obvious […]
Kathryn Carlson
Kathryn Carlson is Director of Transportation at A Better City, overseeing transportation research and policy agendas as well as oversees two Transportation Management Associations (TMAs). She is also on the board of the LivableStreets Alliance.
Prior to joining A Better City, Kathryn founded Buca Boot LLC, a bicycle product company and invented their flagship product, the Buca Boot, a patented bike-mounted storage system that won Inc. Magazine’s “Best In Class” Design Award in 2015. She has been a research analyst and economist at Fidelity Investments in Boston covering energy and commodity markets, and a senior-level appointee at the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions for Governor Jim Doyle.
She holds a Bachelors of Arts from Wellesley College, and a Masters of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics.
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Sound lessons from Seattle
MASSACHUSETTS IS ABUZZ with talk about whether Amazon might choose one of our communities for its second North American headquarters. Just days after Amazon announced a nation-wide search for “HQ2,” we visited the company’s longtime home, Seattle, with a delegation of more than a dozen Massachusetts leaders. This study tour – funded by the Barr […]