At Rail~Volution we recorded a podcast in front of a live audience.  We talked with Catherine Cuellar of Dallas about the arts district and ...

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...

We discussed these bad boys when the order was put in back in 2008 . The thing I find interesting about this version of the S70 is that th...

Is a new business model emerging for merchants and park n ride lots? ~~~ A drive thru in Portland apologizes after an employee refuses ser...

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

Check out this time lapse transit line video. Atlanta was way ahead ... via @ttpolitic

New Orleans is looking to build three new lines while Portland has approved a reference plan for a streetcar network. The catch, New Orle...

Links and ink: I really like the idea of setting a baseline for ridership and road usage so you can use it for performance measures later. ...

There's been a lot of talk over this study today. It comes at a perfect time for journalists to skim the abstract and form their own c...

I often wonder what proponents of BRT mean when they say BRT. Apparently so will people in Minneapolis . ~~~ I haven't quite gotten my...

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...

Fred Hanson to Adelaide ? Are they going for a huge light rail expansion? What's up with transit agency heads leaving lately? Simonet...

Portland Transport has the skinny with photos and a video . With the recent passage of the Eastside Extension, it looks as if there will b...

Following Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, Sam Adams has said that he will ditch the car for a month and go on bike and transit. We mentioned t...

Even in the transit world... But supporters of the Portland expansion as well as transit advocates nationally said that making the announcem...

The people commit suicide via train are selfish and a**holes. They do it to Caltrain operators here in the bay area all the time. If you ...

I hope that means that the New Starts Report lists are coming out soon. Can't wait for that data mine. Makes me wonder what other lin...

This was the same story I heard with the first Portland Streetcars. They were overworked but luckily the Skoda models were hardy and didn...

The new Siemens SD70s in Portland are popular . And they haven't carried a revenue passenger yet.

Looks like planning for the streetcar and future fixed guideway transit is in the works for Portland. You can find more info here at Metr...