Friday, March 29, 2024

Can public transit and ride-share companies get along?

Who's in the driver's seat? Matthew Jude Brown, Alexander Torrenegra, CC BY-SAIn Centennial, Colorado and Altamonte Springs, Florida, residents and visitors can now get...

Why is the U.S. unwilling to pay for good public transportation?

Maintenance has been pushed off so much that the D.C. Metro needs to shut lines down for months for repairs. momentsnotice/flickr, CC BYOfficials in...

What public transit can learn from Uber and Lyft

Riders on San Francisco's Muni light rail system. David Lytle, CC BYFor all of their complaints about it, Americans care about public transit. Surveys...

Chris Christie and the GOP: Pound foolish

CHRIS CHRISTIE'S overwhelming re-election as governor of New Jersey this week immediately got him hailed as the great hope of Republican pragmatists in the 2016 presidential elections....

Babbage: August 14th 2013: Pipe dreams of fast pods

ELON MUSK, creator of PayPal, proposes the superfast transit system for Californian commuters, London recycling bins nab data from passers-by and why rabbits have...

Babbage: August 14th 2013: Pipe dreams of fast pods

ELON MUSK, creator of PayPal, proposes the superfast transit system for Californian commuters, London recycling bins nab data from passers-by and why rabbits have...

Bob Crow: Union man

SOME people would resent being treated as the pantomime villain of London politics. Not Bob Crow, who died early this morning. The leader of...

Sharing a lift: Carpooling uber alles

“MARK my word,” Henry Ford declared in 1940, “A combination of airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.” No...

Growing cities face challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across

Cities are growing vertically as well as horizontally, so infrastructure needs to ensure people can move up and down as well as across the...

Unused £321m trapped on dormant Oyster cards – and time may be running out...

Topping up. shutterstockIt is 15 years since Transport for London (TfL) launched the Oyster card on London’s buses and tube trains, but Oyster hasn’t...

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Rethinking the intersection to prioritize safety over speed

The rising rate of pedestrian fatalities is a consequence of deadly design decisions that prioritize driver speed and convenience over the safety of all...

Why This Is Our Year of the Bus

In recent years, many cities have begun to invest more in improving the quality of public transport, including both physical and operational innovations. However,...

Dakar, Senegal’s Electric BRT Leads the Way for African Cities

The city of Dakar recently launched the anticipated 18.3km fully electric BRT system, a first in the Africa region. The e-BRT system is expected...

Celebrating 20 years of Complete Streets

The term “Complete Streets” was coined two decades ago, and while a lot of progress has been made, the fight for safe streets is...