In the middle of all the wrangling over the Cincinnati streetcar Peter Rogoff, who is the FTA administrator, said something really interesti...

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

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...

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 ...

Houston gets into the final design phase for two of its five light rail lines and gets development codes changed to promote pedestrian acc...

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

Detroit is stuck in federal funding hell. They want to spend public and private funds to build a new light rail line down Woodward. Now t...

Peter Rogoff, the possible new FTA administrator, was on Capitol Hill getting grilled by Senators. However I have a slight problem with wh...

According to the Washington Post , Obama has tapped Peter Rogoff for FTA Administrator. Already beats a trucker . Peter M. Rogoff , a leadi...

Ughh I've never had allergies before, but perhaps something crazy in the air has got me going. Anyways, short links list...but I had to...

I was reading Jim's post on public utilities providing a push to build more solar. What a great idea: incentivize ( I hate the 'wor...

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

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...

Looks like the FTA had a busy end of the year giving out funding grants to cities around the country including Money for: The West Corridor ...

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...

Christof paints a picture of how things can go wrong in getting projects off the ground fast. It's mostly because of the federal fundi...

Perhaps its release season for the FTA. Getting close to Christmas so lets approve some stuff. Yesterday it was the Central Subway environ...