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Enghouse Transportation Offers a Primer on Automated Fare Collection
"Open-loop" contactless fare payment systems offer tremendous benefits for riders and transit agencies alike.
March 27, 2023
To Recover from COVID, Transit Needs a Rider-Centered Future. Here’s How
Together, the key players in transit — riders, elected officials and decision-makers, staff and consultants, and advocates and media — have the power to rebuild a stronger transit system, one that is financially sustainable and positioned to carry the masses into the future. But only if we each do our part and we trust each other to do the same.
March 20, 2023
Better Buses Needed in Bayview-Hunters Point
It must be a priority to give the people of the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods proper access to the rest of the city
March 8, 2023
Transit Connection FAIL
It illustrates a theme throughout Bay Area transit: here's a first person account of what it was like trying to use the Larkspur ferry-train connection
February 28, 2023
Q&A: High Speed Rail Update
"We're designing a rail line from scratch to reach high speeds for the first time ever in the U.S."
February 27, 2023
What Happens When You Ask Public Officials to Give Up Driving for a Week
You get a flurry of local news coverage ... but not a lot of participation. No wonder pols all have the "windshield perspective."
February 22, 2023
Why Transit to Community Colleges Matters
A staggering number of U.S. community college campuses are located miles from the nearest transit stop, a new report finds, and it's keeping critical educational opportunities firmly out of reach for students who can't or don't drive.
February 21, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: The Overlap of Public Transit and Homelessness
Here's a very good conversation about the need for more federal agency coordination among transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face.
February 16, 2023
What’s Next for the K Ingleside?
Transfers could become the new normal for K Ingleside passengers heading downtown
February 16, 2023
SPUR Talk: Lessons from Denmark
Bay Area goals are aligned with Copenhagen's. But the ability to deliver, that's a different story, says a SPUR panel after a visit to Denmark
February 7, 2023