Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Buses

The Last Mile: How Bike-Ped Improvements Can Connect People to Transit

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Oct 18, 2011 | 5 Comments

Whether it’s just a short walk down the street or a five-mile bike ride, the journey between home and station is a major factor in people’s decision to take public transit. For the transit officials and livability advocates gathered at the Rail~Volution conference this week, that key piece of the journey is known as the […]

Eco-Libertarian Alliance Pushes Replacement of Rural Air Service With Buses

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 20, 2011 | 5 Comments

Buried in the FAA extension passed last week was a line item for air service to connect rural communities to major airports. These are usually tiny flights, leaving from remote airports. All together, they use annual subsidies of over $163 million. In July, when Republicans forced a temporary shutdown of the FAA, this “essential air […]

Taking Greyhound? Papers, Please.

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 16, 2011 | 20 Comments

Transportation options for undocumented immigrants are becoming narrower and narrower in the U.S. Whatever you may think of immigration policy, there are about 11 million people living in the shadows in this country who have ever fewer ways to get around. Immigration agents have been boarding Greyhound buses to nab undocumented immigrants, according to a […]

Seven Transportation Improvements Everyone Can Agree On

By Tanya Snyder | May 16, 2011 | 7 Comments

The Reason Foundation, a free-market think tank, is not always a transportation reformer’s best friend. Its scholars gave Florida Gov. Rick Scott inaccurate advice he then used to justify killing high-speed rail in his state. They want to prevent the gas tax from funding “peripheral” programs like transit and active transportation. But Reason Foundation experts have teamed up with […]

Buses vs. Rail: Conservatives Do Battle Over Which Mode is Better

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 11, 2011 | 22 Comments

Bill Lind is a big man. The director of the Center for Public Transportation at American Conservative stands well over six feet tall, and when he really gets going, he seems to loom even larger. Maybe that’s why he hates buses so much. “Those seats are designed for garden gnomes,” he said. A roundtable discussion yesterday […]

Mica Is Against “Paving Over America,” For “Cars in Shoulder Lanes”

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

I know I said I wasn’t going to post during my vacation, but I thought you’d be interested in this new report from the FHWA, and, perhaps more notably, the Republican reaction to it. The agency just submitted a report to Congress on the use of highway shoulder lanes as traffic lanes. (It’s not online, […]

Show More Stories