Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Public Transportation

Opinion: A Planner’s Take on California’s EV News

By Tara Goddard | Aug 29, 2022 | No Comments

Even if you could wave a technological magic wand and solve every problem with EVs, a bigger concern is whether this focus on personal electric vehicles will monopolize public resources that would be much better spent in other ways.

Should Public Transit Be Free? Freakanomics Asks the Experts

By Melanie Curry | Aug 26, 2022 | No Comments

Public transit is good for the environment, for economic opportunity, for social mobility, for traffic congestion.

Talking Headways Podcast: Bus Stop Transformations

By Jeff Wood | Aug 25, 2022 | No Comments

This week, Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis by involving the community, engaging transit operators, and bringing life to grey spaces.

Legislating at the Intersection of Transportation and Housing Policy

By Melanie Curry | May 31, 2022 | No Comments

A.B. 2097 and A.B. 1778 illustrate that a powerful approach to addressing the overlapping problems of affordable housing and sustainable transportation can be to solve both at once.

Today's autonomous buses are mostly pretty small — but as they grow in size, so will the complexity of the conversation about how to regulate them and protect their human drivers. Photo: North Dakota DOT

Will ‘Autonomous’ Buses Force Drivers Out of a Job — Or Make Them More Important Than Ever?

By Kea Wilson | May 31, 2022 | No Comments

Automated vehicle technology could improve labor conditions for bus drivers while improving safety and service for transit passengers and city-dwellers alike — but only if regulators act now, a new analysis argues.

Why You Should Never Sit Next to a Breakaway Post

By Michel Durand-Wood | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on Strong Towns and the Dear Winnipeg blog and is republished with permission. It is focused on Winnipeg, Canada, but the policies and infrastructure it discusses are relevant to the United States as well. It seems like every time there’s a news piece about a traffic collision […]

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