COVID-19 Impact on Cape Cod Public Transit
Bridge the Gap: A Cape Cod Bridges Podcast
Release Date: 02/26/2021
Beyond the Summer Season – How the Bridges Shape Cape Cod’s Service Economy
Bridge the Gap: A Cape Cod Bridges Podcast
Episode 3: Beyond the Summer Season – How the Bridges Shape Cape Cod’s Service Economy Welcome to episode three of Bridge the Gap, your go-to source for factual, locally driven discussion on one of the largest infrastructure projects facing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In this episode, co-hosts Matt Pitta (Director of Communications at The Davenport Companies) and Paul Niedzwiecki (CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce) explore how the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges shape the hospitality and food service economy on Cape Cod. This episode features special guests Parth Patel, owner...
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Critical Access: The Bridges, Public Safety, and Emergency Management
Bridge the Gap: A Cape Cod Bridges Podcast
Episode 2: Critical Access: The Bridges, Public Safety, and Emergency Management In episode two of Bridge the Gap, co-hosts Matt Pitta (Director of Communications at The Davenport Companies), and Paul Niedzwiecki (CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce), talk about how the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges impact public safety on Cape Cod. This episode features special guests Peter Burke, Chief of the Hyannis Fire Department and Heath Eldredge, Chief of the Brewster Police Department. Both Chiefs serve on the Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee - a coalition of law...
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Welcome to Episode 1 of the podcast “Bridge the Gap”
Bridge the Gap: A Cape Cod Bridges Podcast
In the inaugural episode of Bridge the Gap, co-hosts Matt Pitta, Director of Communications at The Davenport Companies, and Paul Niedzwiecki, CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, sit down with Luisa Paiewonsky, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Megaprojects Delivery Office. Luisa oversees some of the Commonwealth’s largest infrastructure projects—including the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges replacement program, each with price tags of $500 million or more. Together, they discuss why replacing these critical bridges is essential for the Cape and Islands’ economy, the risks of...
info_outlineWhen COVID-19 hit nearly one year ago, the public transportation sector took a major blow, with people avoiding trains, buses and other modes that involved putting large groups of people together. The result was devastating to the financial well-being of public and private transit agencies on which so many rely. On this edition of the Policy Pod, Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority Administrator Tom Cahir joins us to talk about federal money that is arriving to help the struggling transit sector.