BART Unions Give Notice: Strike on Monday
Mike Rosenberg, Matt O'Brien and Brittny Mejia write that the 72-hour notice "does not guarantee a shutdown but essentially starts a clock that will expire at 11:59 p.m. Sunday for management and...
View ArticleGovernor Keeps BART Trains Rolling
John Coté and John Wildermuth write that the governor intervened at the request (PDF) of the Bay Area Rapid Transit district management.Publication Date: Mon, 08/05/2013
View ArticleCan Biking Build a Bridge to Transit in Birmingham?
"The endless calls for increased mass transit funding have blinded the city to other means of increasing connectivity.Publication Date: Mon, 08/05/2013
View ArticleTop Ten Epic Fails in Mass Transit
The Hindenburg tragedy put an end to the flourishing era of transatlantic passenger flights by airships. History is littered with mass transit ideas both great and small that failed because they were...
View ArticleThe Recipe for a Happy Commute
"How to create the perfect commute?" asks Sue Shellenbarger. "People can enjoy commutes as long as 45 minutes, studies show—and men are less frustrated by long commutes than women. But a happy commute...
View ArticleDo Psychological Barriers Doom L.A.'s Transit Transition?
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View Article'Jobs Sprawl' Plagues Cleveland Commutes
Despite all we hear about a return to density, research from Brookings shows rising distances between people and their jobs.Publication Date: Tue, 04/07/2015
View ArticleLos Angeles May Upgrade Orange Line BRT to Rail
Since its opening in 2005, L.A. Metro's Orange Line bus rapid transit "has since become the busiest bus route in the Valley, carrying about 30,000 riders a day between Chatsworth, Warner Center and...
View ArticlePoor Suburbs Struggle with Job Sprawl
A report recently issued by the Brookings Institution finds that "in more than 60 percent of neighborhoods with poverty rates above 20 percent and 55 percent of majority-minPublication Date: Wed,...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Follows Good Transit
Echoing the calls of many a frustrated urbanist, Ben Adler makes the case for affordability via public transportation. "Demand follows transit.Publication Date: Wed, 06/10/2015
View ArticleOp-Ed: Airport Express Train Unnecessary in Chicago
In a piece for Streetsblog Chicago, Steven Vance makes the case that "the current push to create 'world-class' train service to O'Hare is a distraction from actually fixing what's wrong with Chicago's...
View ArticleStrategies for Maximizing Transit Ridership
In an article on his blog, Jarrett Walker writes, "Maximizing ridership is like maximizing the number of customers for any business. You have to think like a business, and the first thing businesses...
View ArticleNext Steps for the City of Freeways
Christopher Hawthorne reminds us that in the recent past, Los Angeles' freeways heralded a bright future. "This praise had a way of edging toward the religious. [Writer David] Brodsly called the...
View ArticleWhat If Seattle Had a Century-Old Subway?
Seattle grew by leaps and bounds from the 1870s through the early 20th century. Expecting future expansion, engineer Virgil Bogue developed a comprehensive plan to accommodate over a million...
View ArticleUber Looking More and More Like Transit: Is that Good or Bad for Transit?
Josh Constine reports on the new Smart Routes feature from Uber, described as "a way to let you pay less money for a little less convenience and a little less time saved."Publication Date: Mon, 08/24/2015
View ArticleBus Rapid Transit Hits Global Milestone
"Last week, bus rapid transit (BRT) reached a global milestone, as the number of mapped BRT corridors and systems in BRTData.org’s database broke 400," reports Ryan WInstead.Publication Date: Mon,...
View ArticleNew Tracking System Tackles Bus Bunching
Washington D.C.'s Circulator bus line has trouble with bus bunching. "It's when buses – due to traffic, delays in loading and unloading passengers, or variations in driver speed – cause other buses...
View ArticleGreater Montreal Seeks a United Front to Transit Growth and Sustainability
Flavie Halas reports in Citiscope on the ongoing effort in the Montreal metropolitan area to bring the region's 82 municipalities together on shared interests, including better transit, environmental...
View ArticleDallas' CityMAP Project Looks to Reimagine Downtown Connectivity
Brandon Formby reports in The Dallas Morning News on a new program lead by the Texas Department of Transportation in partnership with local planners and civic leaders.Publication Date: Mon, 10/05/2015
View ArticleLos Angeles' Metro Launches New Phase in Effort to Curb Sexual Harassment
The Los Angeles Metro system is touting the drop in incidents of sexual harassment on its bus and rail system while asking riders to remain vigilant.Publication Date: Thu, 10/15/2015
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