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The Maryland Transit Administration has a $2 billion shortfall due to the state underfunding its priorities.

Maryland Is In A Huge Transit Hole

By Aaron Short | Jul 23, 2019 | No Comments

Years of underfunding transit in the Old Line State has left the Maryland Transit Administration $2-billion short of the $5.7 billion needed to run its bus and rail system over the next decade.

You knew there were falls in Sioux Falls, right?

South Dakota City Turns to Harvard For Transit Help

By Aaron Short | Jul 22, 2019 | 5 Comments

Sioux Falls is in the middle of an eight-phase overhaul of its transit system that would shift is fixed route bus service to an on demand system, allowing vehicles to change their routes based on passenger needs rather than a fixed line or schedule.

This is a PTSA bus. Photo: City of St. Petersburg

Are Uber and Lyft the Future of Transit? Not So Fast

By Aaron Short | Jul 22, 2019 | 7 Comments

Cities that turn to technology companies to save their transit systems are bound to be disappointed by the outcome.

A post-crash photo of the self driving Uber car that killed a Tempe pedestrian. Photo: NTSB

Pittsburgh Reveals the Downside of Self-Driving Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 18, 2019 | 11 Comments

Wider inequality. More sprawl. Worse transit. Those are some of the outcomes we could see from self-driving cars in cities, according to a Pittsburgh-based transit advocacy group.

President Trump Has Starved Transit Agencies of $854M

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 17, 2019 | 8 Comments

Administration delay tactics have made applying for transit construction funding much more costly and difficult.

Oklahoma launched a new office to extend public transit to more rural areas in the state.

Oklahoma Gets Serious About Transit Sooner Than Later

By Aaron Short | Jul 9, 2019 | No Comments

Oklahoma — where the transit comes whipping down the plains.

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