Brian D. Taylor, professor of urban planning and public policy and a research fellow at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA Luskin, spoke to Marketplace about what transit agencies are doing as federal aid provided during the pandemic is running out. Federal aid helped agencies — including those that lost ridership — during the last few years, but now those agencies are having to consider cuts on some routes. A good transit system that attracts ridership requires reliable and frequent service, Taylor said. “You need to have a network of service that reasonably covers an entire urban area,” he said, explaining that some parts of the system will make money while others with less ridership won’t. “But those who are there need to get to destinations, to get to work on time, to get to the doctor, to get to things that they need to get to,” Taylor said.