Having dispensed with the question of whether an African-American or woman will ever make it to the White House, conservative Culture Warriors have moved on to defining and dividing Americans over their chosen mode of transportation. These two images have been floating around the right wing blogosphere under the shrieky, all-caps headline, "THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW." Somehow or another this strikes me as a promising development.
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"Our eventual goal is to make inter-city bus travel every American's first consideration when they think about how to get from one city to the next."
While other developed nations are building more transit lines as their populations increase, the U.S. is not.
Unfortunately, many city streets and subway stations are still not ADA compliant.
American cities used to have some of the longest per-capita rail networks in the world. Not anymore.
The city has recorded a 250 percent increase in bike traffic since 2004.
Speed cameras can’t ticket vehicles with ghost plates — which means we don't know how often their drivers break the law.
