This week on the podcast we're joined by Jay Crossley of Houston Tomorrow who discusses Houston's new general plan.  It was the larg...

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...

I was in Houston for a work meeting last spring and went on a tour with our good friend Christof Spieler who has taken a hiatus from bloggin...

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...

Houston has been studying constructing a commuter line down the 249 corridor but if it plays out as usual, it's going to skip a number ...

Some notes for the weekend... If road projects like this one had to go through new starts they would never get built. This road like all o...

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...

While it's great that the Chronicle and others are calling on Houston Metro to have a regional vision with goals, it means nothing with...

It's been a bit rough lately. With the economy in the tank and people not wanting to spend any money, I've had great hope that some...

In an attempt to go a little deeper into the previous post I went looking for more pictures of Rotterdam and Houston and found even better c...

There have been a lot of issues recently over cost estimates that are starting to rub me the wrong way. I had never mentioned it before but...

It looks like an amendment was put into the federal transportation budget that would allow Detroit to use a LRT line that it builds with it...

Design of train stations is important . My favorite airport in the US is Austin, because when you get off the plane, the high ceilings mak...

China is having the same issue with urban growth that we have with VMT. It seems as if they are growing so fast that it negates their sust...

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

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...

Check out this really cool/not cool video of the swaying Manhattan Bridge. Kind of freaky when you think about how many full bends it took...

Jarrett has an interesting post on how LA is more like Paris with their polycentric form than a more monocentric place like New York City. ...

Getting Sleeeeepy... Jarrett continues with the streetcar mobility argument alone . Starting to look like a manifesto on why cheap buses ar...

Reader Jon points us to this LA Times article discussing new tollways. They don't mention that those HOV lanes were once dedicated bus...