Light Rail
Eyes on the Street: Metro’s LAX Mega-Station Is Open
The 11-acre $900-million LAX Metro Transit Center is open to the public — and it's spectacular!
June 9, 2025
L.A. Metro Touts Full Year of Transit Ridership Growth
Metro ridership numbers grew steadily throughout 2023, and appear very likely return to more than a million weekday daily riders by early 2024.
December 21, 2023
Opinion: How to Decide Between Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit
What style of transit makes the most sense in a COVID-era world?
September 19, 2023
Baltimore Activists Want the Red Line — But the ‘Right’ Red Line
“When you find structural racism you've got to make structural change,” said one activist.
June 30, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: A Tour of Canadian Transit
Learn about the light rail in Ottawa, where they know when they need to expand!
June 30, 2022
America’s Best Bus Stops Round 1: Bus Stop Behemoths
As we continue our quest to find America's best bus stop, we thought we'd bend the rules just a bit and take a look at bus stations — some of which serve a few other types of transit, too.
March 18, 2022
Ghost Train Podcast Explores Denver’s Troubled Rail Expansion, with Lessons for Other Locales
Ghost Train is "the story of how one polluted, traffic-choked city went all in on trains, and what happened when that plan jumped the track.
March 11, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Coordinating Pandemic Transit
This week we’re joined by Robert del Rosario, director of service development for AC Transit in Oakland to talk about the pandemic, what’s needed to get riders coming back, and what sustainable revenue might look like going forward.
July 1, 2021
Too Little, Too Late? A Decade of Transit Investment in the U.S.
It’s been a busy decade for many cities throughout the U.S. From coast to coast, they’ve been building up their transit networks, offering riders something more than run-of-the-mill bus routes.
January 8, 2020
Rail-y Big Deal: Ohio Man Maps The Future
"People said, 'This would change my life,'" said the visionary behind a Buckeye State rail system.
December 23, 2019
