With cities facing budget cuts across the country, public transit service is being slashed and fares are going up. In New York, if a new fare hike is approved, a monthly metro card will cost $103. In LA, there have been two fare increases in the last four years. Obama's stimulus bill provides $17 billion for public transit, but how will it be spent?

Can public transit be improved--even expanded--during the worst recession in decades? Lindsey Lusher Shute, Director of Transportation Alternative’s Environmental Campaigns, David Goldberg, Communications Director of Transportation for America, Gene Russianoff, Staff Attorney of NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign, and Francisca Porchas, Clean Air Campaign Lead Organizer with the Labor Community Strategy Center in LA on the future of public transportation in the United States.