There has been a lot of chatter recently on the issue of fast vs slow transit.  This week is the perfect time for this discussion as two maj...

In 2000 a man many people called the Hammer decided that Houston Metro wasn't going to get any funding for a light rail project that sco...

Well sort of. Today the 2005 dear colleague letter that then FTA Administrator Jennifer Dorn released on the world requiring that all New ...

Yay FTA Models. You totally rule at figuring out ridership in new light rail cities. You did a bang up job in Minneapolis ( 24K in 2020 ,...

A lot of people are depending on Obama's FTA to change the rules to let them build streetcars and other projects. I'm hoping that ...

John McCain hates transit. We would be living in an extended Bush nightmare if he were President today. It shows because it seems as if he ...

It looks like Shanghai has long term plans for it's metro system. ~~~ Developers are looking at TOD around HSR stops in California. “I...

It looks like Senator Murry pulled a Pelosi in setting the terms of her own matching funds which again shows how the New Starts system is b...

The transportation bill is stuck and as its written might increase transit's share of funding by a whopping 2% and the road people are a...

A direct result of poor ridership estimation or purposeful underestimation for new lines is not enough capacity to supply service to the peo...

Here's a little something to keep you going: Edmonton planners hope a TOD plan in the suburbs will reduce the need for driving every tr...

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...

Even in the transit world... But supporters of the Portland expansion as well as transit advocates nationally said that making the announcem...

Why must they cost so much !!!??!!! Surely this is just the result of the engineers throwing in the cost of reconstructing Tryon, the sensi...

Part of the problem with costing complaints for light rail is that everyone wants to throw everything into the project. From repaving the st...

I got into a debate on Streetsblog about passenger miles and capacity and saw a calculation I had never seen used as a reason that light ra...

It's a little early to claim victory here because of all the special events that have been going on since this line opened as well as th...

Even in the downturn the Charlotte light rail line beat its projections. Currently ridership is down from its highs, but it makes me think...

I have to take issue with reports like these . The reason being is that it seems like these folks are operating in this vacuum and aren'...

The Euclid Corridor BRT opens this weekend in Cleveland making it the third true BRT line to launch in recent years (Orange Line and Eugene...