On this week's talking headways podcast, the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute's Mary Newsom talks about Charlotte's history, urban ...

A fight is breaking out between former Charlotte Mayor/current NC Governor Pat McCrory and current Mayor Anthony Foxx over funding relate...

It's been open season on long term capital improvements for fixed guideway transit.  First there's Minnesota Republicans looking to ...

A lot of times I'll see an article or a piece that I want to comment on but hold off to see if more of a complete picture comes through...

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...

Ok so two posts on this is a bit much but I wanted to compare the Charlotte and Utah vehicles side by side. These are for you Gordon. It l...

We discussed these bad boys when the order was put in back in 2008 . The thing I find interesting about this version of the S70 is that th...

While it would be nice to believe that Light Rail changed the world in Charlotte, Mayor McCrory is doing a bit of oversell if this article ...

Will there ever be a day when we don't see this sentence in a newspaper article ? Huntersville Mayor Jill Swain said the N.C. Department...

Long Beach is looking at streetcars ~~~ Quatar has a $22B deal with Deutsche Bahn to build freight, passenger, and Metro rail lines using S...

The city of Charlotte is contemplating buying a dead mall . The same dead mall is at the end of the proposed streetcar route. It would be ...

When I see headlines like this , It makes me a bit upset. "Woman Raped Along Uptown Light Rail Line" Not just because someone was ...

Chris Leinberger tells us that "value capture" is the term of the next year. Though I wish he would dig a bit deeper. ~~~ Izmir ...

Vancouver puts its hopes along the Canada Line into TOD ~~~ Is City Living the way to a wealthier nation ? I'm not sure if it's ju...

After overriding the Mayor's veto, URS is going to look at how to bring the streetcar to the city. One of the issues, how to power the...

EPA is basically worthless in light of this : City transportation planners changed data that essentially took one in three cars off the road...

Building a supercenter will not anchor TOD. Sorry to say. Soon, the boarded up store fronts and run down parking lots that make up the most...

Looks like Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory vetoed the Charlotte streetcar study . But no matter, it initially passed with a 7 to 4 vote, wherin...

Mayor McCrory of Charlotte has been complaining about the stimulus for a while. Most of his argument revolves around the fact that its ridi...

72% of riders on Charlotte's light rail system hadn't used transit before. That is a HUGE number and somewhat surprising to me giv...