There's been a lot of bashing of Silicon Valley lately.  It's the butt of transit jokes because of its light rail line which is one...

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...

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

Quotes like these kill me. "If you're late for work, and you might get fired if you're late one more time, it might be worth t...

Looks like BART to San Jose has hit another snag because of the economy. The ~20 mile extension from the Fremont station all the way to th...

My feed reader is getting bombarded with high speed rail articles. It's crazy how much attention something gets when leadership in this...

Thanks for all the input. It seems like we have a few projects that are pretty bad. Again I'm not going to let you choose more than on...

There was a post up on Daily Kos today heralding the passing of BART to San Jose. Lot's of folks have different opinions about it but I...

Caltrain is going to raise fares in order to cover diesel fuel cost spikes. Imagine if it were already electrified. Less cost and cleaner...

Sound Transit 2.1 is on the ballot in Seattle. Where is the support badge? :) Check out STB for some liveblogging goodness. It looks...

So as a continuation of this post on transit density, we're going to look at San Francisco and San Jose. This is not transit density i...

One of the things that bothers me these days is the need for the FTA to judge things based on cost and not long term benefit. An article in...

What happens when we orient buildings to transit? It saves space. It creates more value from the land. It creates more opportunities for ...

Fred at MetroRiderLA went to a lecture by Australian researcher Jeff Kenworthy. Here are a few things from Fred's overview that caught...

I mentioned AC's post on Density earlier. In his most recent post, he calculates the weighted densities for 34 regions. I'm wonde...

I know that BART to San Jose is in the pipeline and as usual it wasn't planned to serve people but to be cost effective. This means th...

Recently Microsoft has started its own bus service to its campus in Redmond. Google and other companies have these bus services and I'v...