Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bus Rapid Transit

Talking Headways Podcast: California Über Alles

By Tanya Snyder | May 1, 2014 | 2 Comments

Welcome to our all-California, all-the-time episode of the Talking Headways podcast. We start with a statewide debate over whether $60,000+ Teslas should qualify for tax breaks — or whether any electric vehicles should get tax breaks. Then on to the conversation about how California’s cap-and-trade dollars should be spent. One proposal, from the State Senate leader, […]

You Can Now Bring Street Transformations to Life With Google Street View

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 25, 2014 | 6 Comments

If you ever want to show someone that it’s possible to change streets and cities for the better, Google Street View can now help you do it. Google recently made it possible to view archived Street View images. This means it’s easier than ever to show what streets looked like before and after a redesign. […]

State Interference in Nashville BRT Could Have National Implications

By Annie Weinstock | Apr 23, 2014 | 9 Comments

Annie Weinstock is the regional director for the U.S. and Africa at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Last week saw the quiet death of the misguided, Koch brothers-funded Tennessee Senate Bill 2243, which would have effectively banned real bus rapid transit in Tennessee. The Senate’s outrageous overreach, attempting to prohibit transit from using dedicated […]

11 Simple Ways to Speed Up Your City’s Buses

By Payton Chung | Apr 18, 2014 | 28 Comments

All across America, city buses are waiting. Waiting at stoplights, waiting behind long lines of cars, waiting to pull back into traffic, waiting at stops for growing crowds of passengers. And no, it’s not just your imagination: Buses are doing more waiting, and less moving, than they used to. A recent survey of 11 urban transit systems […]

Long Arm of the Koch Brothers Extends to Nashville to Slap Down Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 3, 2014 | 9 Comments

On Tuesday, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean announced that he might do away with dedicated transit lanes on two stretches of the Amp, the proposed seven-mile bus rapid transit line that could set an important precedent for the car-centric city. Dean is the main political backer of the project, so the fact that he’s buckling says […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Play the Gray Away

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 2, 2014 | 1 Comment

Jeff and I had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit, and high and mighty about cities that devote too much space to surface parking at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a […]

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