Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Buses

More Transit Agencies Adding WiFi on Buses

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 5, 2015 | No Comments

Escambia County, Florida announced WiFi on its buses last week. So did Charleston, South Carolina. Kansas City had it months before. And Atlanta‘s working on it too. It’s a trend that’s gaining speed quickly among transit agencies intent on luring young people to their service, according to Chad Chitwood, a spokesperson for the American Public Transit Association. For several years, the […]

Fewer People Are Riding the Bus Because There Are Fewer Buses to Ride

By Angie Schmitt | May 29, 2015 | 18 Comments

Remember when the Great Recession decimated transit agency budgets, but the White House and Congress refused to step in and fund bus service while spending billions of dollars to subsidize car purchases? Well, the hangover continues to this day, leaving bus riders in the lurch. Last year, bus ridership in America shrank 1 percent. While rail ridership grew 4 percent, […]

It’s Time to Vote for the Sorriest Bus Stop in America

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 6, 2015 | 48 Comments

We asked you to point us to the nation’s worst bus stops and you answered. After receiving dozens of nominees from our readers, Streetsblog editors narrowed the pool down to eight very sorry bus stops. These bus stops are ugly. Ugly! In a transportation system where public agencies never seem to lack the money for […]

Turning a Suburban Retail Bus Stop Into a Place People Want to Go

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 11, 2014 | 9 Comments

This post is part of a series featuring stories and research that will be presented at the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference September 8-11 in Pittsburgh. Last week, Pittsburgh got its first suburban bus stop makeover. And the results were beautiful. The new IKEA “super-stop” lies in a shopping center along an interstate highway, surrounded by surface parking, between a TGI Fridays […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Houston, Transit Paradise?

By Tanya Snyder | May 22, 2014 | No Comments

Welcome to a super-long extra-bonus episode of Talking Headways! We only took on two topics this week, but we got so enthralled by both of them we just couldn’t shut up. First, we talked to Christof Spieler, a member of Houston Metro, about the “blank-sheet” bus overhaul he helped design. Instead of trying to tweak the […]

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 […]

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