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The three-year Central Harbor corridor study is hanging on by a thread after OCTA's transit committee recommended Thursday to end it and move forward with incremental bus service improvements. Image: OCTA

OCTA Transit Committee Revokes BRT/Streetcar Study for Central Harbor Boulevard

By Kristopher Fortin | Jun 19, 2018

Santa Ana and Garden Grove want to extend the OC Streetcar and improve transit, but Anaheim and Fullerton oppose a streetcar option--and any project that would take away a general-use lane for transit.

A transportation project as superficial as the Kendall Highway deserves the mockery dished out by Transit Alliance Miami on its sexy highway site.

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Miami’s Mindless Highway Addiction Gets the Mockery It Deserves

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 19, 2018

A 15-mile highway extension would bring sprawl to the edge of the Everglades and drain resources that could be used for transit.

The Twin Peaks Tunnel. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Guest Commentary: Tips for a Tunnel Shutdown

By Rachel Hyden | Jun 19, 2018

The needs of transit riders must come first during the Twin Peaks tunnel summer shutdown

Traffic signals that maximize crossing time for pedestrians remain the exception, not the rule, in American cities. Photo: District DOT

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Making Traffic Signals Fair for Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 19, 2018

Traffic engineering conventions deprive people on foot of sufficient time to cross the street. We should change that.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Jun 19, 2018

Koch brothers are pouring money into fighting transit projects (New York Times) CA congressional rep introduces federal bill to protect bus drivers from attack (SGVT) To build a better bus system, ask bus drivers (CityLab) Bay Area transit costs are among the highest in the nation, but they don’t have to be (Curbed) My other […]