Late Night Workers Could Save Big With 24-Hour Transit
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Limited options force the most vulnerable employees to rely on cars, pushing up their transportation costs, a study finds.
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Driver Shortages Causing Transit Delays Nationwide
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Many agencies struggle to attract bus drivers, who are often paid too little to afford housing in the areas they serve. It's a vicious cycle.
Bond Voyage! Houston Faces $3.5B Transit Decision
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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
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The Wisconsin city may cut 16 bus routes serving vulnerable residents if it can't dig up $5.9 million.
Lessons of Los Angeles’s Transit Tax: Money Isn’t Everything
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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 […]
Nashville Plans New Transit Hub
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Music City could use a transit tune-up — and a new transit center could be a key step forward. Nashville’s civic leaders had hoped to lure more Tennesseans out of their cars and get them zipping across downtown, by building 26 miles of light rail lines and eight new bus lanes with a $5.4 billion […]