Transit
Basics
Uber and Lyft Don’t Reduce Cars. Transit Does.
Seattle is the only major city that really grew the number of car-free and car-light households in the last five years. It's also the only one that's really grown transit ridership.
January 8, 2019
Richmond Shows How to Boost Small-City Transit
Richmond built a bus rapid transit line and reorganized its bus routes. Ridership rose 21 percent in a year.
January 7, 2019
DC Metro Opens Door to Bikes During Rush Hour
Bikes will be allowed on the DC Metro, even at rush hour — a long-sought win for local advocates.
January 2, 2019
Why Are We Still Waiting for Electric Buses?
In China, fleets of super-efficient electric buses roam cities. In the U.S. we're just getting started.
December 7, 2018
Free Public Transit! (Sorry, It’s in Luxembourg)
The movement for free transit is gaining ground in Europe — and, maybe, here.
December 6, 2018
Tampa Voters Supported Transit Measure — But Sore Losers Want to Overturn it
Yet again, there's a Koch brothers connection.
December 5, 2018
Trump Finally Releasing Transit Cash
Trump's Federal Transit Administration is finally releasing long-ago-approved funding for major projects.
November 29, 2018
Trump’s Infrastructure Games Threaten NY
Donald Trump has been threatening to derail the nation's largest metro economy as leverage to get his border wall.
November 29, 2018
Toronto Cleared Cars Off a Major Transit Corridor — And it Worked!
Once the street was closed to cars, about 20,000 additional streetcar riders materialized practically overnight.
November 13, 2018
Election 2018: The Koch Brothers Lost Big in Tampa Last Night
A grassroots-led push for trails, sidewalks and transit funding in Hillsborough County was successful despite opposition backed by the Koch brothers.
November 7, 2018
