This week I’m chatting with Akshay Mani , a sustainable transportation planner who has worked for Cambridge Systematics in the United Stat...

Yesterday's most read article was about a piece of legislation ( bill text ) that would allow 82 foot buses on the Orange Line BRT in L...

This week we continue our conversation with Christof Spieler on Houston, this time focusing on transportation including discussions about BR...

So it seems as if the Port Authority in Pittsburgh is giving up on a rail trip between the two largest employment centers in the region. P...

Rob has a good evaluation post up about the slow going Health Line BRT in Cleveland. Ultimately the planners weren't thinking of Rapid...

One of the claims of BRT is that its faster to implement. As we know from work here in the Bay Area and other parts of California is that ...

I'm a bit disappointed that the Center for American Progress would be pushing natural gas BRT as a strategy instead of electrification ...

One of the complains about new transit is that it will destroy homes and businesses. However with the appropriate strategies the affects ar...

Chicago is looking to extend their Red, Orange, and Yellow El lines at their ends. I'm not going to say that I know Chicago as well as...

This is likely what the United States looked like in parts of the 1950s and 1960s. These days complete neighborhood deconstruction wouldn...

Jarrett has an interesting post on how LA is more like Paris with their polycentric form than a more monocentric place like New York City. ...

Streetsblog is at it again with BRT. When do we get a streetfilm on Berlin or London's or Tokyo's or Hong Kong's or Moscow...

Carol Coletta who has her own NPR show called Smart City muses on buses and their image issue: As I travel U.S. cities, it is unusual for p...

Notice they don't say that it's not what they want or need, they just say that they can't figure out how to pay for it since th...

"Officials laud transit center, buses as ‘close’ to light rail" Why don't you try and sell it a little harder... The bus l...

Reader Jon points us to this LA Times article discussing new tollways. They don't mention that those HOV lanes were once dedicated bus...

I've been waiting for that day. The day when the Busway in Miami is handed over to the cars. We knew it was gonna happen...somewhere....

Once a year Santa Transit comes and brings us the New Starts report (Warning 12mb) which lets us know which cities have been naughty or nic...

I was reading some comments on Curbed LA about the Orange line extension and came across this comment: Thankfully, Metro had the foresight ...

I'm kind of a night owl and its sometimes nice because the next days news comes out right before I go to bed. It's also bad because...