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House GOP Transportation Bill Would Raise Taxes on Transit and Bikes
The bill would amount to a tax increase of more than $200 million annually on American transit agencies.
July 31, 2018
Transit Riders Win Half-Hour Extension on Muni Tickets
Riders will have a full two hours to complete their journeys
July 20, 2018
Slowly and Stealthily, Trump’s DOT Starves Transit Expansion Projects of Federal Funds
The Trump administration has slowed the release of federal transit grants to such a crawl that expansion projects in the works for years are now in jeopardy.
July 18, 2018
Six Principles for a Transit System That Makes Your City More Fair and Just
Transit should be a great social equalizer. In many cities, however, transit's potential to advance economic fairness is held in check because resources are distributed inequitably.
July 18, 2018
Yosemite Enforces Its Bus-Only Lanes, But How Can the Park Better Manage Car Traffic?
Should Yosemite visitors expect hour+ delays? Or are there better ways to manage the park's notorious traffic congestion?
July 17, 2018
Editorial: Keep the Combo J Church/K Ingleside Train
Why do the J and the K turn around at Balboa and head back downtown the way they came, rather than continuing on each other's alignments? Wouldn't the service be more useful if, even if they had to pause for a few minutes at Balboa to maintain schedules, the two lines were combined?
July 13, 2018
The Unintentional Comedy of “Stop the Purple Threat” Is Actually Kind of Sad
Anonymous residents of Beverly Hills have organized under the banner of "Friends of Beverly Hills High School" to launch a new web campaign against the Metro Purple Line Extension under the banner of "Stop the Purple Threat."
July 10, 2018
These Are the American Cities Where Transit Access to Jobs Is Getting Better
Investments in better transit are paying off for Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Columbus.
July 10, 2018
How Can Metro and Cities Make Bus-Only Lanes Effective?
Phil Washington called for more enforcement to get scofflaw drivers out of bus-only lanes, but sometimes enforcement erroneously targets bicyclists. What works?
July 2, 2018
The Story of “Micro Transit” Is Consistent, Dismal Failure
Real world experience has proven that diverting resources to "micro transit" is not a recipe to improve transit or increase ridership.
June 27, 2018
