Needed: A Federal Program to Boost Transit Service
Instead of cutting people off from opportunity, condemning households to struggle with high transportation costs, and overheating the planet, our transportation systems can advance economic fairness, racial equity, and climate action. To achieve that transformation we’ll need to run more transit service.
April 23, 2021
Op-Ed: Learning from Nashville’s Failed Transit Measure
As Austin, Cincinnati, and San Antonio tee up similar measures, here are some pitfalls to avoid.
January 28, 2020
Uber and Lyft Are Overwhelming Urban Streets, and Cities Need to Act Fast
Contrary to the story Uber, Lyft, and their peers like to tell, ride-hailing services are not reducing traffic in American cities. Nor will they, even if they meet their goals for converting solo passenger trips to shared rides, according to new research from transportation analyst Bruce Schaller.
July 26, 2018
New York City Councilman Challenges Safety of ‘Mixing Zones’ and Painted Solutions
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants DOT to provide better protection for pedestrians and cyclists in its redesign of 10th Avenue.
July 19, 2018
What Happens When a Company That Sells Car Trips Gets Into the Bike Trip Business?
Lyft has acquired the nation's largest bike-share company, setting up a situation where its bike trip sales will cannibalize its car trip sales.
July 9, 2018
Let’s Get Serious About Capping Car Speeds in Crowded Cities
Sound outlandish? The barriers are not as intimidating as they might seem.
November 2, 2017
Q&A With Oakland DOT Head Ryan Russo on Protected Bike Lanes in NYC
Few people have been so closely involved in the transformation of the city's streets over such a long period of time as Ryan Russo. So between his last day at NYC DOT and his move to the West Coast, I caught up with him to get an insider's perspective on more than a dozen years of change to NYC streets.
May 9, 2017
Bike-Share as a Speculative Venture
New York, you may have heard, is about to get invaded by a swarm of bike-share companies.
April 26, 2017
Welcome to the New and Improved Streetsblog
For the first time in nearly nine years, we're debuting a sitewide redesign of Streetsblog.
December 14, 2016
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi Are Falling for Infrastructure Propaganda
We're going to see a lot of stories about Donald Trump and infrastructure in the next few months, and this reporting will be heavily influenced by a message that has been honed and perfected by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It will be important to see through these arguments and view the Trump infrastructure plan with clear eyes.
November 17, 2016
