A Post-Pandemic Reality Check for Transit Boosters
In 1918, streetcars were the top urban transportation mode in the United States. And they were packed: Americans made about 140 trips per capita,...
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Last year, the fiscal management control board of MBTA, Boston’s regional transit agency, faced a critical decision. With area commuters enduring the worst car...
Paris Has a Plan to Keep Cars Out After Lockdown
Returning to a Paris dominated by cars after lockdown ends is “out of the question,” according to the city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo. Speaking Tuesday...
In New York City, Density Saves Lives, Too
This is part of an ongoing CityLab series on the debate over urban density during the coronavirus crisis. For more, go here.
New York’s...
How U.S. Public Transit Can Survive Coronavirus
Public transportation has been in a state of crisis since the coronavirus pandemic began. Ridership in major cities in the U.S., Europe and China...
The New York Subway Got Caught in the Coronavirus Culture War
On April 13, Jeffrey Harris, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a non-peer-reviewed study with a provocative title: “The Subways Seeded...
Oakland’s ‘Slow Streets’ Is an Emergency Measure Long in the Making
Last week, Oakland, California, announced a bold answer to shelter-in-place coronavirus claustrophobia: To create more outdoor space and safer corridors for essential travel by...
Anyone Feel Like Saving Electric Scooters?
Vultures are circling around shared micromobility.
E-scooter operators like Bird, Lime, Jump, and Spin were confronting financial headwinds even before Covid-19 drastically reduced urban trips...
Coronavirus lockdowns are pushing mass transit systems to the brink – and low-income riders...
Mass transit ridership in Los Angeles and elsewhere has plummeted during the crisis.
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Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns
The life of a transit worker was never easy in the United States. Then along came coronavirus. To enable the livelihoods of other essential...
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