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Transit App Launched for Charleston Busses

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The South is not known for being a haven for public transportation users.  But our next guest’s Lowcountry bus service is succeeding with their customers by staying on the cutting edge of transit technology.

Mike Switzer interviews Mike Seekings, chair of the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority known as CARTA.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.