Recent Streetsblog USA posts about TransitCenter

Detroit’s Big Transit Success Story Isn’t Its New Streetcar — It’s the Buses

By Stephen Miller | May 12, 2017 | 11 Comments

Today is the grand opening for the QLine, Detroit's 3.3-mile, mixed-traffic streetcar on Woodward Avenue. It's getting tons of local press attention, but TransitCenter reports that the Motor City's true transit renaissance is not due to the streetcar, but the city's successful, under-the-radar turnaround of its bus system.

Cars consume a lot more space to move the same amount of people as a bus.

Uber Can’t Replace Transit — Here Are 3 Reasons Why

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 19, 2016 | 50 Comments

The latest line from anti-transit types is that ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft are going to make fixed-route bus or rail service obsolete. If you find yourself arguing with someone about why transit is essential, a new fact sheet from TransitCenter can help.

Q&A: How Advocates, Pols, and Agencies Should Team Up to Change Cities

By Michael Andersen | Oct 23, 2015 | 2 Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. When deep economic forces rumble through a country, all its cities change a little. But some of its cities change a lot. What makes a city capable of changing a lot? That’s […]

The Key Human Factors That Can Lead Any City to Transform Its Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 4, 2015 | No Comments

How did Portland get to be a national model for sustainable transportation and walkable development? Yes, Mayor Neil Goldschmidt stopped the Mount Hood Freeway from being built in 1974 and began negotiations that eventually led to the implementation of the urban growth boundary. But Goldschmidt didn’t do it alone. Grassroots activists from a group called […]

Got Transit Troubles? The Problem Could Be the Chain of Command

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 13, 2014 | 12 Comments

If you still have to juggle multiple farecards for the various transit systems in your area — or if urgent maintenance issues in the city core are going unattended while the suburbs get a shiny new station — the problem might run deeper than the incompetence everyone is grumbling about. The root of it all […]