Georgia Screws Transit Riders, Again
Georgia ranks near the bottom in transit spending among U.S. states. MARTA, which serves residents of the Atlanta region, is the largest transit system in the country to receive no state funding.
June 3, 2015
Today’s Headlines
Obama Signs Two-Month Highway Trust Fund Extension (The Hill) Related: CBO Spitballs Future Short-Term Patches (The Hill) CityLab Remembers That Time Reagan Raised the Gas Tax In the Wake of Amtrak and Oil Train Crashes, Obama Taps Sarah Feinberg for FRA Post (The Hill) U.S. Could Save Lives by Requiring Trucks to Have Side Guards (Next City) Meanwhile, Pols Worry That Hackers … Continued
June 1, 2015
Modernizing How People Pay to Park in Downtown DC
Washington, DC, is poised for big improvements to its performance parking program.
April 14, 2015
Halloween: A Lot Less Scary If Drivers and Roads Were Safer
Halloween is fun because we get to be afraid of things that we know aren't really scary. But for little trick or treaters in the United States, the danger posed by reckless drivers and unsafe roads is real.
October 31, 2014
Sources: Alta Buyout a Done Deal; New York Citi Bike Fleet to Double
The buyout of Alta Bicycle Share rumored since July is finally a done deal. Alta -- which operates New York's Citi Bike, Washington, DC's Capital Bikeshare, Chicago's Divvy, and several other cities' systems -- will be purchased by REQX Ventures, an affiliate of the Related Companies and its Equinox unit.
October 27, 2014
When Highways Are Barriers to Opportunity
Looking at a map of commute times, Patrick Kennedy at Walkable Dallas-Fort Worth finds that people who live in census tracts with some of that region's lowest household incomes spend the most time traveling to and from work. Many commutes are more than an hour each way.
September 17, 2014
How to Improve 3-Foot Passing Laws
After a couple of vetoes by Governor Jerry Brown, California finally has a 3-foot passing law.
September 16, 2014
With Permit Parking, John Cranley Could Help Cincinnati Despite Himself
Chalk this one up as a worthwhile proposal offered in bad faith.
September 15, 2014
Lagos Bus Rapid Transit Handles 25 Percent of All Commuters
Six years after Lagos, Nigeria, launched the first Bus Rapid Transit program in all of Africa, the system handles a whopping 25 percent of all commutes and plays a key role in the city's ongoing effort to reduce stifling vehicle congestion.
September 11, 2014
Two Visions for a Closed DC Freeway, But Only One Shows Any Vision
David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington reports that city traffic engineers and city planners have very different ideas on what to do with a closed freeway segment in southeast DC.
September 10, 2014