I went out for a bike ride on Sunday.  Here's some fun stuff that I saw.  I streetcar turnaround up Market street and the value of a bik...

(Note from Pantograph: This is another guest post from my friend Ed. If you missed his first two posts, check back down the page for more o...

Hey everyone, I realize that the posts on here have slowed to a crawl. I don't meant to neglect them but sometimes life gets in the way...

Notes for folks: China is seeking their own manifest destiny with trains. (Reuters) ~~~ China's Urban property is going up in price . (...

Unfortunately it was raining pretty hard today, which means I can't get NBC and apparently AT&T service is somewhat haywire. But th...

Wow so I have been so busy I didn't even realize that I haven't posted in a long time. Consider this an open thread. I have a lot ...

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...

As Becks notes , I think its important to start thinking 20 years ago about transbay capacity. Unfortunately we haven't had a real conv...

One of the claims of BRT is that its faster to implement. As we know from work here in the Bay Area and other parts of California is that ...

Perhaps the streetcars of San Francisco were getting a bit upset with the lack of funding coming their way and the silly cash for clunkers p...

I've discussed the operator side of suicides on the track before. The Mercury News goes into greater detail with Caltrain engineers .

An article on NBC 11 ponders what would have happened if the Bay Area never would have constructed BART. It's an interesting thought, e...

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...

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...

The mean green of UNT have done another study looking at the economic effects of constructing light rail in the Dallas region. The study s...

Supervisor Alioto Pier who represents Northern San Francisco asked in the July 14th Finance Committee meeting for TA staff to start thinkin...

BART pays RENT at the airport? Doesn't this sound like the SFPD taking liberties with Muni funding? SFO built the BART station at a co...

Today I had a cinco. I was on three different transit systems and on five different transport modes. This morning I woke up realizing that...

As much as people complain about the old cars and the noise in the tunnel and the sometimes surly folk that ride BART, I feel that being on ...

You know the type, those who think that having a hybrid car alone will help their environmental credentials but don't do much else. The...