Transit

A Bay Area transit agency is only the latest to be sued over inaccessible stations. What will it take to get every American stop ADA compliant?

Despite our region’s long-standing support for public transit, it’s frustrating that Bay Area transit doesn't work well for more people. Ridership was stagnant prior to the pandemic, and is now at about 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels—one of the weakest recoveries in the nation—creating a financial crisis for Bay Area transit agencies that threaten a future ‘downward spiral’ of cuts.

Are more cops the answer to violence against transit workers, or is it only driving societal tensions that make attacks more frequent?

Caltrans districts and local cities have bike and pedestrian safety plans, but too often Caltrans uses excuses - including cost and delay - to avoid following them. This bill would stop that practice.

The post CalBike Summit Preview: Complete Streets Bill Would Require Caltrans to Implement Its Own Policies appeared first on Streetsblog California.

The Transportation Equity Index maps out crash rates and creates a new way to map out multimodal access

The post California Launches New Transportation Equity Tool appeared first on Streetsblog California.

Riders are beginning to see real progress on many of the long-discussed initiatives to integrate the region's transit systems, from fare integration to wayfinding to transit priority and more. It’s important to recognize how far we’ve come - seamless transit is finally taking shape in the Bay Area thanks to riders speaking up, elected officials championing integration, and greater than ever attention from Transit General Managers (Transit GMs) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). We summarize the impact and timeline of some important collaborative efforts in this post. 

Here's a paradox: agencies need money to make transit better. But to get the votes, transit has to get better without the money.

A classic book on transit gets an update for a radically transformed world. And, yes, Elon Musk gets a little shade.

Generations of pundits have argued that operating subsidies enfeeble transit agencies and allow them to run inefficient routes with tons of empty seats. A new study says the opposite is true.