1 million rides and counting: on-demand services bring public transport to the suburbs
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The technology-driven revolution in urban transport is largely centred on the inner city. It has completely missed the suburbs, which lack the...
Is Vienna Really All That Livable? Depends on Where You Look.
Last year, Vienna took first place in The Economist’s Global Liveability Index. This was familiar turf for the Austrian capital, which has been trading...
New York gets serious about traffic with the first citywide US congestion pricing plan
Traffic flows into Manhattan from Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
After years of debate, New York state has adopted congestion pricing...
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Capital Metro is a great option for college students to get to class and make their way around...
Ride-Hailing Isn’t Really Green
Uber and Lyft have consumed a vast amount of attention since they arrived a decade ago. But in many ways, we’re just beginning to...
Changing Tides Engulf the South Street Seaport
New York was born a maritime city. In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville described the pull of the sea on his fellow New Yorkers: “osted like...
A NYC Councilmember’s Plan to Save Public Transit
The New York City subway has been a convenient target for pandemic blame, demonized as a vector of disease that spread the coronavirus poison...
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...
Make housing affordable and cut road congestion all at once? Here’s a way
This transit-oriented development in Oakland, California, combines residential housing with easy access to local transport options and amenities. Eric Fredericks/flickr, CC BY-SATwo of...
How to Win the Fight for Fair and Equitable Transit
Start by dismantling the systemic barriers that disproportionately penalize low-income bus riders.