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Inside City Hall

Real change. Real leaders. No script.

Inside City Hall brings municipal leadership together for candid, peer-to-peer conversations about how transformational change actually gets done in local government — starting with the decisions behind high-performing public transit.

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Inside City Hall

By local leaders, for local leaders.

Real leadership, real decisions, 1x per month for 20 minutes.

Episode 04

Replacing fixed route for microtransit

Cutting fixed routes is the kind of decision that gets a city leader in the headlines. Tune in to hear why one made the call to go all-in on microtransit, and how it's paying off.

Episode 05

Preparing for an AV future

Autonomous buses may sound like the future, but the groundwork starts now. A city leader walks through their public transit rollout and the real path to AV bussing.
Episode 06

Unseating a two-decade transit operator in 60 days

Replacing a transit provider after 20+ years is the kind of move most cities never risk. Tune in to hear how one city did it in 60 days, and what the first days under new management look like.
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Episode 03
From Auto-Pilot to Accountability: How Mobile, AL regained control of transit

What happens when a city realizes its transit system has been running on auto-pilot for decades?

Jacob Laurence, Deputy Director of Administrative Services for the City of Mobile, Alabama, sits down with Via's Matt Dias to discuss how restructuring the city's transit managed service contract turned a $1M deficit and double-digit ridership decline into a high-performing partnership rooted in transparency and performance.

 

Episode 02
Bringing First/Last Mile to the Community with Seth Hoffman

What happens when a city decides not to wait for the perfect solution – and becomes a national model instead?

Seth Hoffman, City Manager of Lone Tree, Colorado, sits down with Via's Matt Dias to discuss how a small city built one of the most efficient first/last mile microtransit programs in the country, and why the decision to not wait for perfection turned out to be the right call.

 

Episode 01
Governing beyond city lines with Tom Fisher

What happens when a 40 year transit partnership between county and city lines decides to split?

Tom Fisher, former County Manager of Summit County, Utah sits down with Via’s Matt Dias (former City Manager of Park City, Utah) to discuss how they and their teams amicably dismantled a 40 year partnership to rebuild one of the highest performing regional transit systems in America in just 6 months.

 

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Matt Dias, VP of City Partnerships at Via

Matt Dias spent 20 years inside local government — as Deputy Chief of Staff in Somerville and City Manager of Park City, Utah, where he managed a $250M budget, secured $100M in federal infrastructure grants, and served under five mayors.

Matt knows what it takes to make hard decisions stick. Now leading city partnerships at Via, he created Inside City Hall to give peers the candid, practical conversations he wished he'd had.

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