PHOTOS: 30 Minutes On Mass Transit Around The World
Mass transit is a funny thing. Sometimes it's efficient. Sometimes it's comically bad. Stefan Wehrmeyer took the good and the bad and created Mapn...
Mass transit is a funny thing. Sometimes it's efficient. Sometimes it's comically bad. Stefan Wehrmeyer took the good and the bad and created Mapn...
Joel Epstein | Posted 04.30.2012
How was the Bruce Springsteen show? Probably the best I have ever seen. While that's no understatement, the real show in L.A. opened this morning at 5 am when the Expo Line started running between downtown and La Cienega Blvd.
Yul Kwon | Posted 04.17.2012
As the host of the PBS series America Revealed, which focuses next Wednesday night on our nation's travel infrastructure and how it works, I've had the opportunity to get an up-close look at our roads, rails, buses, air travel systems -- even ferries.
Miller Hudson | Posted 04.12.2012
Five studies each reached the same conclusion -- that the preferred solution would require the construction of an Advanced Guideway System that provides rapid transit service around the I-70. Yet, much of Colorado remains unconvinced.
Megan Owens | Posted 04.06.2012
If Detroit wants to stabilize and grow its economy, buses, rapid buses, and light rail must all be included in Detroit's regional transportation system. If Detroit only supports a basic bus system, we will remain a third-class city.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.19.2012
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Federal and state leaders pleaded Monday with House Speaker John Boehner to take up the Senate's transportation bill, which passed la...
Tom Allon | Posted 05.19.2012
Voters will and should hold a mayor's feet to the fire on mass transit. Our commerce, in fact our entire citizenry, benefits from mass transit.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.12.2012
Gas prices are up. More people are relying on mass transit instead of driving their own cars. But the transportation bill the Senate will consider on ...
Posted 03.12.2012
From Melissa Hincha-Ownby and Mother Nature Network: High gas prices are bad news for consumers but good news for mass transit companies. The lates...
Reuters | Posted 05.12.2012
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - Americans took 10.4 billion trips on public transportation in 2011, the second-highest total since 1957, as gasolin...
Edward Wytkind | Posted 04.15.2012
Does the nation need Congress to quickly finish a surface transportation investment bill that funds the operations and infrastructure of our mass transit systems, highways, bridges, railroads and ports? You bet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 02.08.2012
Faced with the clashing imperatives of protecting public health and preserving the fiscal well-being of public transportation, Boston transit official...
Phineas Baxandall | Posted 04.04.2012
The agenda for transportation advanced by the House this week flies directly in the face of clear trends in how Americans are choosing to travel.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.03.2012
Two House committees voted on Thursday and Friday to eliminate federal funding for a program that creates bicycle and pedestrian paths for children go...
MarÃa Elena Durazo | Posted 04.02.2012
While Washington, D.C. has been stuck in what amounts to a partisan traffic jam, unresponsive and unwilling to rebuild our national economy and infrastructure, we took matters into our own hands in Los Angeles.
Tony Dutzik | Posted 03.28.2012
When President Obama took office in 2009, he brought with him the greatest hope in decades for reinvestment in the nation's passenger rail system. T...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.24.2012
The last couple of years have been pretty stormy for public transportation agencies: Amid deteriorating state and local budgets, some 80 percent of th...
Ned Staebler | Posted 03.21.2012
The direct financial costs of the Iraq war were estimated to be about $800 billion, with a 'B.' That struck me as a lot of money. I started thinking: "What else could we have done with $800 billion over eight years?"
Lawrence J. Hanley | Posted 03.06.2012
Mass transit is in crisis across the nation. Over the past two years, 84 percent of transit systems have raised fares, cut service, or are considering either of these measures in the near future.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.28.2011
NEW YORK -- Tax breaks used by 2.7 million subway, light rail and bus riders across the country will be slashed next year, dealing struggling mass tra...
Neil Greenberg | Posted 02.14.2012
I am fully confident that we will have rail in Detroit. That said, the cancellation of this specific light rail project does not surprise me -- nor does it particularly disappoint me.
Carol Kellermann | Posted 02.07.2012
If a temporary personal income tax hike is the price we pay for long-term reforms that enhance infrastructure, encourage job growth, and make the tax system more equitable, then it is a price worth paying.
Anthony Garcia | Posted 01.29.2012
Without considering sweeping changes to transportation planning and funding, charter reform will not mean much in the daily lives of residents of Miami-Dade County.
Geoff Young | Posted 01.16.2012
For a decade or more, the Detroit region has talked about building a regional transit system. As it stands today, nothing has been built. So what is the remedy to Detroit's struggles to move forward on regional transit?
Lawrence J. Hanley | Posted 01.09.2012
Intercity bus companies typically pay their drivers abysmally low wages and force them to work more than 100 hours a week. Why do bus operators get away with that?
Posted 05.18.2012