These articles are from a few days ago but I wanted to clear my tabs and get some opinions. Ogden is going to spend some money on buses tha...

And is it right to be developing once vital industrial land? It's a question that often comes up that I don't quite know the answer...

Steve Patterson discusses the passing of an influential figure in city planning's past who often advocated for widening streets and euc...

There's an article in the New York Times that discusses the lack of major infrastructure projects around the country funded by the Fede...

Every place in the country wants to spend more money on infrastructure but none of them have it. Los Angeles and Denver want to pay for the...

I mentioned in a previous post that I don't believe freeways are places for stations. I stand by that remark and worry that here in the...

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...

Here's a few links from the wide world of transit: In Denver, the Daily Camera posed a question about the possible Fastrax expansion ta...

In a recent report, my day job with the National Housing Trust looked at the number of expiring section 8 and 202 units near fixed guideway...

Given many cities don't have grids anymore, I find it interesting that gridlock is still in the lexicon, specifically because if we did ...

In and around San Francisco, there are places where LRVs stop and you'll see lots of sand. For a while I wondered where it came from un...

On the blue line in Charlotte . Development in the Charlotte region has slowed for sure, but real estate analysts say persistent developers ...

United we stand, divided we fall . Worried about how to pay for all the corridors, Mayors in Denver are worried that their city will get cu...

Thanks for all the input. It seems like we have a few projects that are pretty bad. Again I'm not going to let you choose more than on...

Two articles in two separate Denver papers paint somewhat different pictures of what is going on with the Fastracks program. One discusses ...

Siemens will hire 200 workers in Sacramento to build light rail cars. ~~~~~~~ Strip malls offer an opportunity to change our development p...

Time to figure out which route is best for the Southwest Corridor in Minneapolis. ~~~ Pelosi for HSR . Major firepower will make sure tha...

While housing values around the country are falling, there has been anecdotal evidence of value near rapid transit staying high or even goin...

Peter at SF Bike Blog points out the shameful state of bike lanes compared to other green cities. ~~~ To me, when McCain's economist sa...

I like the Fastracks program. What it has done is lead the way for other regions to start thinking about how transit is being built in this...