Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Buses

How Bus Transit Can Help the Auto Industry

By Elana Schor | Oct 26, 2009 | 3 Comments

A map of the companies involved in the supply chain for U.S. transit buses. (Image: EDF) When Vice President Joe Biden visited Minnesota’s New Flyer bus company to tout the economic stimulus law’s $8.4 billion investment in transit, hopes were high for a boom in cleaner-burning vehicle production — which made for some bad press […]

Feds Could Soon End Pro-Transit Privatization Rule — in One State Only

By Elana Schor | Sep 21, 2009 | 5 Comments

The transportation spending bill passed by the Senate on Thursday includes a provision that rolls back a Bush-era pro-privatization rule which blocks local transit agencies from providing bus service to special events — think state fairs and NFL football games. But there’s a catch: the rule is only reversed in the home state of the […]

D-Day Approaches for Detroit Transit Riders

By Elana Schor | Sep 8, 2009 | No Comments

As the recession squeezes the pocketbooks of the nation’s cities, Detroit has become an unfortunate symbol of urban decline — so much so that Time Warner recently bought a house there for reporters to use while covering the locals’ struggle for financial survival. Detroit buses like this one carried an estimated 38 million riders last […]

Feds Still Forcing Transit Agencies to Bow to Private Charter Buses

By Elana Schor | Sep 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog Capitol Hill reported yesterday that the U.S. DOT would end a Bush-era mandate to reward new transit projects for using private contractors — but a similar pro-privatization rule for bus service remains in effect, preventing local transit agencies from competing with private charter companies. Fairgoers in Minnesota depart a private charter bus that benefited […]

Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2009 | 4 Comments

While President Barack Obama promoted wind power and cap-and-trade legislation, VP Joe Biden spent Earth Day talking up transit. Public radio’s "The Takeaway" reports that Biden held a presser at a bus maintenance facility in Landover, Maryland, to tout a $300 million investment in hybrid buses and other municipal vehicles as part of the federal […]

San Francisco Mayor to NYC: “Eat Your Heart Out.”

By Matthew Roth | Dec 11, 2008 | 25 Comments

A rendering of the Transbay Transit Center with a 5.4 acre park on its roof. At a groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom asserted the project will be "so much more extraordinary than Grand Central Station." Pointing to the renderings on a projection screen behind him, […]

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