Transportation, Economic Development and the Metropolitan Planning Organization

We're Out to Lunch with Todd Ashby from the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization or MPO. In this first bite we'll introduce you to what it is the MPO does, who they do it for and what the focus is when it comes to transportation. In the coming minutes you'll hear about planes, trains and automobiles along with bicycles, mass transit and how water will play a roll in future economic development. We're Out to Lunch with the Business News Hour and our host is the Original Jesse's Embers here on Ingersoll. Let's go!

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