145 - Public Transportation is for Everyone

Karen King started her career as a bus driver and grew that into a long career in public transit, most recently serving for the past fourteen years as the CEO of the Golden Empire Transit District in Bakersfield, California. She started her career at Utah Transit Authority before moving to California. She worked at Long Beach Transit and then expanded her career to include rail service development and operations as Executive Director of North County Transit District in San Diego. Karen holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah and a Master of Science degree in Transportation Management from the University of Denver. She presently serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the California Transit Association and is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee at the American Public Transportation Association. Attorney Kyle Jones and Dave Plivelich from The Marcom Group sit down with Karen King the CEO of Golden Empire Transit and Janet Sanders the Marketing Director of Golden Empire Transit. Karen explains how taking the bus is not only beneficial to the rider but to the entire community as well, since it reduces emissions and the number of vehicles on the road. In addition to buses, GET is now offering micro-transits in limited areas, which is similar to popular rideshare services such as Uber and Lyft, at a significantly reduced cost from 7am to 7pm with the goal of being available to the entire metropolitan Bakersfield area. Karen also shares GET's goal of becoming 100% emission free. Stay tuned to hear the different services GET has to offer and how it might just apply to you and find out what Karen did before entering the transportation industry. LEARN MORE ABOUT GET BUS: Website: www.getbus.org/ Email: [email protected] Phone: 661-869-2438 Instagram: @GETbus Facebook: Golden_Empire_Transit Twitter: @GetBus