This week we're chatting with Jake Mecklenborg about his book Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway. It's a good one so check it out. ...

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...

Every year I feel like I harp on this because I think that outside of these people with fancy gowns, there are a lot of folks including pre...

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...

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's just not like when we grew up . I remember riding my bike to school. "The biggest problem presented in the report is the fact...

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...

Check out this really cool/not cool video of the swaying Manhattan Bridge. Kind of freaky when you think about how many full bends it took...

Jarrett has an interesting post on how LA is more like Paris with their polycentric form than a more monocentric place like New York City. ...

Streetsblog is at it again with BRT. When do we get a streetfilm on Berlin or London's or Tokyo's or Hong Kong's or Moscow...

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...

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

Overhead Wire correspondent @nspicer (who doesn't know he has been conscripted until now) is in Beijing and took a few shots of the sub...

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. ...

I like it. Heck, give Lennar a density bonus if they help fund it. The line looks awfully familiar. Like something out of a fantasy map ....

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...

Here's a little something to keep you going: Edmonton planners hope a TOD plan in the suburbs will reduce the need for driving every tr...

Plan transit lines that cross CIA and other secret government black underground cables. This part happens all the time: A construction crew...

A number of San Francisco websites including SFist and Curbed have posted on the Draft alternatives screening report , which I suppose is ...