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...

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

So according to Joel Kotkin (only go to the link if you have to), the Density Lobby is made up of the following nefarious groups: Then ther...

This is a boondoggle. It's a craft project that we used to do in Boy Scouts so that we had something to put our keys on. via Etsy Crap ...

Recently Joel Kotkin wrote an article that accused everyone who likes rail transit's ability to shape communities of being part of the ...

I thought this comment by Engineer Scotty over at Portland Transport was quite adroit. Imagine if a transit agency acted like (and had the ...

I'm always a bit surprised (but shouldn't be) when I read an article like this about how extreme conservatives believe that folks i...

And so it begins. the Southwest Airlines CEO believes that the federal government shouldn't give it a competitive advantage. After his ...

Wow. Can you say jump the shark ? "The problem with Los Angeles is not that it's the epitome of sprawl," he says. "The p...

Those poor drivers and suburban apologists (or sprawlagists), they've been neglected for so long... "We cannot let the cynicism o...

You know the type, those who think that having a hybrid car alone will help their environmental credentials but don't do much else. The...

Over at Politics and Place they're talking about the effect of train goggles with an excellent discussion on this issue that I mostly a...

The Reconnecting America site will have updates from the CNU this week on its twitter aggregator for the CNU17 hashtag. If you use twitter...

Anyone remember these comments in February ? Hartgen said he thinks ridership will drop further because uptown layoffs are only starting, an...

This is a pretty old story from 2006 , but I'm glad we're past this type of rhetoric. Americans have not always embraced public tran...

When someone litigates a transit vote that won by 62%. That is insane. A clear majority, 69%, in both counties voted for the SMART train....

Perhaps it's a bit of self interest that energy traders will do everything and anything in their power to kill electric transit. Hoope...

So the losers of the Richmond fight in Houston are at it again. Now they've gotten a lawmaker from El Paso to insert language into a bi...

One wonders why people must always be forced to vote for light rail but not roads. But yet the Columbian is editorializing just that and be...

Really, how out of touch with America do you have to be to hate jeans and Portland simultaneously. Never mind the fact that roads don'...