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The Real Reason Buses Were Losing Riders Even Before COVID-19

Hint: It's not because riders simply don't like mass surface transit.

Kea Wilson

August 26, 2020

The Real Reason Buses Were Losing Riders Even Before COVID-19

electric buses

Op-Ed: Do Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses Make Sense for Cities?

Battery-powered electric vehicles make up the lion's share of U.S. fleets. Could hydrogen-powered vehicles play a role?

Kea Wilson

August 25, 2020

Streetsblog San Francisco |Promoted

Transit Safety Protocols in the Time of COVID

Study looks at how to make trains, buses, and ferries safe... but is it forceful enough to do any good?

Roger Rudick

August 19, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Transit

If the T Decriminalizes Fare Evasion, What’s Next for Its Transit Police?

While the Massachusetts State House ponders significant reforms to fare enforcement on the MBTA, and – in separate legislation – to policing in general, the MBTA’s in-house police force faces a reckoning. The Transit Police attracted intense criticism earlier this summer for their closures of downtown subway stations during Black Lives Matter protests and for […]

Christian MilNeil

August 10, 2020

Streetsblog San Francisco |Bicycle Infrastructure

Building a Better “Faster Bay Area” w/ Angie Schmitt

A chat with Angie Schmitt, a past editor with Streetsblog USA and author of the upcoming book, "Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America”

Damien Newton

August 3, 2020

Coronavirus

COVID May Take 14 Million Cars Off the Road Forever

But if we don't act fast, they'll come back.

Kea Wilson

August 3, 2020

Coronavirus

GOP Relief Bill Gives Zero Dollars to Sustainable Transportation

Nope, not even a penny.

Kea Wilson

July 28, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Equity

How Massachusetts is Reforming Fare Enforcement

In addition authorizing debt spending for hundreds of infrastructure projects across the Commonwealth, the multi-billion dollar bond package that the Massachusetts Senate passed earlier this month would also make significant reforms to how the MBTA enforces fare payments on its trains, buses, and ferries. The Commonwealth’s current fare evasion law sets large penalties for people […]