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...

There's an op-ed on Planetizen discussing the MTA in Los Angeles as a stealth development agency. I don't know if I would go that ...

The time frame for all transit projects are too slow in this country. Why would the Subway to the Sea be any different?

For years the auto industry hid behind Jon Dingell as they constantly lobbied against requirements to raise fuel efficiency. No more hiding...

It doesn't look very good down there . Given California needs 66% of the vote on these types of measures (dumbest rules ever) everyone ...

Slowly. But at least they are paring it down . It goes from this: to this: Of course its going to take a large chunk of green to make this...

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

LAist covers the 1925 LA Subway and plans for a subway network that were scuttled and given pushback. Something that is still happening to...

What would happen if we stopped pitting projects against each other? An article in the Los Angeles Times discusses this and recommends tha...

We've been following the Transit Space Race for over a year now and more cities keep jumping into the race. Yesterday Los Angeles vaul...

In an earlier post I discussed blog support badges and listed some I'd like to see. I created one for the Subway to the Sea for kicks. ...

Update: I wrote this post last week and this morning right after posting, there is an article in the Washington Post about Mary Peters Ideo...

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...

JMD at Transit in Utah points out a few projects in Los Angeles that will have to go through the AA process to get federal funding and fini...

The LA Times has an article about planning for the Subway to the Sea . They've decided to not only study a route on Wilshire but on San...

Some of you might have thought 'awesome!' when you saw the title but I'm sorry to be a downer because no its not LA or San Franc...

After the lift of the consent decree, the LACMTA has been busy planning the next wave of rail lines. Currently under construction are two l...

Los Angeles Now here's an idea, lets pay for transit lines like we used to, tie them to real estate. Obviously this isn't a way to...

Some folks in LA want the 720 Rapid bus line in LA to be dedicated to democrat Henry Waxman. In fact, the City Beat Sniper wants to call t...

An article in the LA Times discusses the subway boom that is going on in China. Realizing that they can't fit their population into ca...