Oral history interview with Gary Poulson
Transportation agencies
Transportation
Parking facilities
Municipal services
Poulson, Gary
2020-01-23
Damon-Moore, Laura
Copyright 2020, Gary Poulson and Madison Public Library. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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metro-004
Wisconsin
Dane County, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Oral history interview with Paul and Jim Killerlain
Bus drivers
Bus driving
Transportation agencies
Buses
Paul Killerlain and Jim Killerlain talk about their respective careers working on teams at Madison Metro. Both narrators discuss their work as bus drivers, and what bus driving in Madison was like in the 1950s through the 1990s. Paul and Jim talk about the shift from the privately-owned Madison Bus Company to the establishment of the City's Metro department. Jim Killerlain discusses the training program for new drivers that he and others established and facilitated at Metro, which is still in existence today.
Killerlain, Paul
Killerlain, Jim
2019-12-12
Damon-Moore, Laura
Copyright 2019, Paul Killerlain, Jim Killerlain, and Madison Public Library. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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metro-001
Wisconsin
Dane County, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Oral history interview with Sharon Persich
Transportation
Transportation agencies
Buses
City planning
Sharon Persich is interviewed about her career at Madison Metro. Sharon shares several projects that she worked on as part of Metro's Scheduling and Planning team, including the shift to the transfer point system, the introduction of real-time bus location updates via ITS, and models she developed and used to project fare increases and the effect on ridership.
Persich, Sharon
2020-01-28
Damon-Moore, Laura
Copyright 2020, Sharon Persich and Madison Public Library. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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metro-005
Wisconsin
Dane County, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin