Rural Needs, Statewide Answers: Profile, Jim Baker
Throughout 2024 as part of our Rural Needs, Statewide Answers campaign, CTS is producing a series of profiles of individuals, organizations, and projects to highlight issues in rural transportation — as well as research that seeks to better understand and address them.
As a long-time transportation professional, Jim Baker spent a career overcoming the challenges of moving goods between small communities across Greater Minnesota and the Midwest. Now retired and living in one of those communities, Baker works every day to overcome a more personal transportation challenge.
“You cannot tell by looking at me that I can't see you. My eyes don't reflect it. I don't squint, my eyes don't wander while I look at things,” he says. “When I open my eyes, I sit up in bed and I have to acclimate to the landscape that I'm provided… and that affects my vision every single day.”
Read more about Jim and the Rural Needs series at https://www.cts.umn.edu/research/feat...