Each time I go to a Rail~Volution conference I feel a bit revitalized.  For some reason just seeing people doing all the great work that the...

Update: Some of this is just folks trying to kill transit projects by forcing them to restudy. But it would be nice if for the Red Line thi...

This is a great way to show the expansion of a system over time. Check out David Alpert's time lapse of Metro expansion . What is inte...

Dave thinks there might be a correlation between the number of trains into a station and its development pattern. I think there is a bit ...

If you wanted to see the tram , wouldn't you go try and ride it, instead of watching it from your car? So many people turned out in thei...

Looks like we have new Metro segments in Dubai and Sofia . Trinidad could put theirs on hold . But funny regions are building Metro lines...

Pinning good transit to a metro population level seems like a good idea to me. In India, regions of 1M or more population will now be elig...

I think Tom Radulovich hits the nail on the head with the basic tenants of this post . Infill stations are a no brainer, especially where s...

Is it worth it to single track a major section of transit investment that isn't towards the end of the line? This seems really insane ...

Carol Coletta who has her own NPR show called Smart City muses on buses and their image issue: As I travel U.S. cities, it is unusual for p...

Seems as if Steny Hoyer is going to take up the mantle of getting WMATA some money. It's really sad that it continually has to be deat...

72% of people who use the Orange Line in the R-B corridor walk to the stations.

Ben Ross of the Action Committee for Transit testified before a House panel to discuss cuts to the Metro system. His testimony was good, b...

I bet you didn't know that stray dogs in Russia had gotten so smart that they have become accustomed to riding the subway to and from ...

Our friends over at spagblog have an update on the completion of the last part of the circle line in Brussels. Passengers travelled for fre...

Line 4 phase II gets the go .

Virgin rail is urging people to move along after they are dropped off at the train station. This has prompted a no kissing zone. I can und...

The place where Transit Oriented Development has thrived since the decision to build in a subway instead of down the center of a freeway is ...

You know you want to say it like Dr. Evil. WMATA rocked it's all time high with an exclamation point . This was forcast by many before ...

It was a nice day today and I took a bit of a walk around my neighborhood looking for odd things, I'll get to that in the next post, but...