Racine is Wisconsin’s electric bus trendsetter. Here’s why it is investing early in public transport’s future

electric busFrom The Journal Times, March 9, 2021.

RACINE — Most people don’t think public transportation is cool. Michael Maierle does. He’s been Racine’s transit and parking manager since June 2016, and he thinks Racine is finally getting a seat at “the cool kids” table of public transport.

Michael Maierle
Maierle

“It’s a privilege to be part of the cool kids,” Maierle said during a recent Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group webinar.

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