Aaron Short
Recent Posts
Scooters Quenching Thirst in Chicago’s Transit Deserts
|
An pilot program shows that the devices are popular in low-income neighborhoods where transit is scarce.
Transit Agency Cuts Service To Curb Homeless in Minneapolis
| | 4 Comments
Minneapolis's transit agency has started shutting down the city's only 24-hour rail line for two hours per night in a move designed to scatter the homeless, but one which has had an impact on working class riders who just want to get home.
Bond Voyage! Houston Faces $3.5B Transit Decision
|
Houston has a once in a generation opportunity to modernize its transit system this fall — and the city hopes to learn from Nashville's mistakes.
Milwaukee’s Transit Service in Crisis as Leaders Bicker
| | 6 Comments
The Wisconsin city may cut 16 bus routes serving vulnerable residents if it can't dig up $5.9 million.
Amtrak Hopes to Link Chicago and Detroit to Toronto
| | 10 Comments
Passenger service hasn't chugged between Detroit and Toronto since at least 1971; the last direct train to pass through the route did so in 1967, according to Amtrak.
Atlanta Bans E-Scooters at Night After Drivers Kill Four Riders
| | 12 Comments
Drivers, however, still may use city streets at all hours — even though motor-vehicle crashes killed 115 people in Fulton County, which encompasses most of Atlanta, in 2017.
Uber/Lyft Responsible For A Large Share of Traffic
| | 4 Comments
The cab companies account for traffic increases in major US cities, but most congestion still comes from personal cars and commercial vehicles, the companies' joint study shows.
Shared Motor-Scooters Coming to D.C.
| | 4 Comments
The District Department of Transportation is launching a four-month pilot program to invite shared motor-scooters to zip through the city, officials announced last week.
Des Moines Rezoning is Anti-Urban—And Maybe Racist
| | 6 Comments
The Iowa capital is proposing zoning changes that discourage density, will raise the cost of housing, and undermine transit.
Lessons of Los Angeles’s Transit Tax: Money Isn’t Everything
| | 4 Comments
Money isn’t everything. A new report is taking the measure of a half-cent sales-tax hike that three years ago sought to transform transit funding in Southern California — and finding that, while such a tax can be sold to the public, it is much harder to muster political support for long-term infrastructure spending. The tax […]
Washington Faces Car Tax Reckoning
| | 7 Comments
Washington State could risk losing $4 billion in transportation funds if voters pass a ballot measure to slash a vehicle fee this November, a new report shows.
Senate’s $287B Road Repair Offers Just .4% for Biking
| | 3 Comments
Two U.S. Senators are pushing a bill that would allocate $287 billion to fix the nation's crumbling roads and bridges — with less than one percent of it set aside to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe.