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Yonah Freemark

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Data: Other Countries Are Building Transit While the U.S. Falls Behind

By Yonah Freemark | Jan 24, 2023 | No Comments
"While the world is building out ever more accessible transit systems, the US appears to be falling behind."
Photo: Chuttersnap via Unsplash, CC

What the Inflation Reduction Act Will — And Won’t — Do For Sustainable Transportation

By Yonah Freemark | Sep 23, 2022 | No Comments
The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by channeling funding through tax credits, loans, and grants — but it's not a silver bullet.
Photo: Martin Pettitt, CC

What the US Can Learn from the European Approach to Controlling Vehicle Emissions

By Yonah Freemark and Wesley Jenkins | Jul 8, 2022 | No Comments
The US transportation sector isn’t adapting quickly enough to the climate crisis by reducing emissions. A better adaptation strategy will require not only shifting how people move by getting them out of cars and onto bikes and public transportation, but also replacing the vehicle fleet with more efficient automobiles that are less reliant on fossil fuels.
Photo: PxHere, CC

The First Step to Ending Pedestrian Deaths? Tax Heavy Cars In Cities

By Yonah Freemark and Wesley Jenkins | Jul 7, 2022 | No Comments
Washington is the first city in the nation to propose a targeted charge by vehicle weight, but even that ambitious policy falls short of similar weight charges in other countries.
Hint: They made roads like this a lot more pedestrian friendly. Photo: Pxhere, CC

Why French and US Road Deaths Went In Dramatically Different Directions

By Yonah Freemark and Wesley Jenkins | Jul 6, 2022 | No Comments
Here's how American states and cities can look to the French example for approaches to improve road safety. 
Image:  Eyeke Bittner, CC

Why US Cities Are Investing in Safer, More-Connected Cycling Infrastructure

By Olivia Fiol, Yonah Freemark and Yipeng Su | Feb 11, 2022 | No Comments
Many US cities have committed to the Vision Zero goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries. One key approach for many cities is improving bike lanes and other facilities. But are cities actually changing the way they invest in cycling infrastructure?
Terrible bus stops like this one make it hard to convince people to use transit.

Analysis: Fed Support for Transit Would Increase Equity

By Yonah Freemark | Aug 27, 2021 | No Comments
Under funding public transportation causes low-quality service and low ridership. It also forces people with low incomes to buy cars and encourages increased carbon emissions. Additional federal transit operations support could improve mobility access for communities nationwide.
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Too Little, Too Late? A Decade of Transit Investment in the U.S.

By Yonah Freemark | Jan 8, 2020 | No Comments
The Transportation Research Board’s 99th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. from Jan. 12-16, 2020. Click here for more information. The following article originally appeared on The Transport Politic. It is reposted here with permission.  It’s been a busy decade for many cities throughout the U.S. From coast to coast, they’ve been building up […]
Too many LA Metro stations, like this one in North Hollywood, remain surrounded by parking. Image via Google Maps

As Transit Expands in Los Angeles, Will Walkability Follow?

By Yonah Freemark | Sep 15, 2017 | 11 Comments
Even as the region's rail network grows, too many stations remain engulfed by single-family housing and park-and-ride lots.
The loss of bus ridership as service has been cut and speeds have slowed swamps recent gains in rail ridership. Photo via David Guo/Flickr

Los Angeles Bus Service Declined as Rail Expanded

By Yonah Freemark | Aug 23, 2017 | 45 Comments
Given the tens of billions of dollars that L.A. will spend on transit over the next few decades, it's all the more important to invest it in ways that will be useful and attract riders. But since 2014, ridership has been dropping.
The Red Line will be a trunk route in Indianapolis's new frequent bus network. Image: IndyGo

The Bus Network Redesign in Indianapolis Will Be Like Launching a Brand New Transit System

By Yonah Freemark | Jul 11, 2017 | 14 Comments
What Indianapolis is doing deserves attention, especially from other spread-out American cities looking to spend their transit dollars as efficiently as possible. The big change is a complete reshaping of bus service, which will be like setting up a brand new transit network.
Employment districts in the Indianapolis suburbs (left, shown next to the central city for comparison) are built out at a scale that makes them unwalkable and difficult to serve with transit.

As Jobs Sprawl Outside Indianapolis, Transit Tries to Keep Pace

By Yonah Freemark | Jun 30, 2017 | 2 Comments
The suburbanization of jobs in Indianapolis has put more and more entry-level positions far from the urban transit network - out of reach, in other words, for many people without advanced degrees who need those jobs. But to their credit, suburban employers and local governments have been working together to make the best of this situation.
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