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Mobility in Rural America: How India’s Popular Transportation Can Be A Model For US Transit Deserts

Lower ridership after Covid, combined with ongoing transit budget cuts, has caused a significant decrease in frequent and reliable public transit service for small and rural communities. Here's one way to fill the gap.

November 11, 2025

Interview: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson On His City’s Big Transit Win

"This funding will allow us to invest in cleaner, safer trains, and for expansion of services, and faster buses ... That's why I'm grateful that we were able to successfully help move different agenda along and get exactly what the people Chicago need and deserve."

We Haven’t Saved Transit Yet: What Comes After Chicago’s Fiscal Cliff

On its own, more funding averts short-term disaster, but does nothing to solve our longer term transit issues. And while the governance reforms could lead to better service, there’s no guarantee of that.

This week's headlines

Tuesday’s Headlines Are Burning Up

On climate change, the gap is growing between what governments are promising and doing, and neither is enough.

Monday’s Headlines Did Their Civic Duty

Around 80 percent of local transportation referendums passed muster with voters last week.

Friday’s Headlines Got Lucky

Crash data doesn't nearly capture the near misses cyclists have to endure.

Thursday’s Headlines Won Big

It was a good day for transit on Election Day Tuesday.

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Friday Video: The Utopia of London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods

Streetsfilms follows an urban planner around the “low-traffic neighborhood” of St. Peter’s in the London borough of Islington.

San Diego Is Latest California City to Welcome Waymo

The Alphabet-owned company announced plans to begin mapping city streets and launching limited operations sometime next year — but whether that move will help advance San Diego’s safety and climate goals remains to be seen.

Talking Headways Podcast: Why Are We Going Backwards?

A very special discussion about why America keeps building highways, how President Trump is targeting transit and how we can all get a better federal transportation bill if we want it.

Transit Wins Big Again In Local Elections Across America

Several candidates who ran on ambitious transportation reform platforms won at the ballot box on Tuesday — but even more communities said yes to supporting transit directly.

Book Excerpt Special: The Incomplete Freeway Revolt

A new book looks the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars. Here's an excerpt.

How One Artist Is Helping Neighbors Decide How Their City Should Sound

An Italian researcher is challenging tactical urbanists to think about sound — and helping neighborhoods imagine something better for their auditory environments.

PART III: Policy Solutions to the E-Moto Problem

What happens when existing state laws don’t quite seem to fit newer types of electric motor vehicles that are being sold and used? How should we address this problem? Here's Part III of our series.

Wednesday’s Headlines Breathe in the Air

Congratulations, you have a slightly less chance of developing dementia due to half-hearted efforts to curb climate change.

Study: Why Can’t San Francisco Plant More Street Trees?

Advocates fight for greenery in their neighborhoods and ask the question: why is the city ripping out more trees than it's putting in?

Is a ‘Life After Cars’ Really Possible?

"This book is an invitation to imagine a better world in which people are put before cars," says co-author Sarah Goodyear.

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