Although there have been times that I've pined for the comfortable isolation of a locked car, I've come to believe that experiencing an LA bus ride is like peeking into the guts of the city.
The public transportation money in last year's stimulus bill was spent faster and created twice as many jobs as the money spent on highway projects.
One of the key elements of the New York City metro area's dynamism is its mass transit system. Destroy that critical infrastructure and you begin to destroy the entire region's economy.
All in all, we had a mixture of good, disappointing, and great news for smart growth and sustainability in 2009. Taking a long view that considers where this issue was fifteen or even ten years ago, I remain very optimistic.
"Bicycle Christmas lights - drivetrain" (SF Bay Area), by Richard Masoner (creative commons)...
It felt a little like "Groundhog Day" in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, when lawmakers approved the "Jobs for Main Street" package, which ...
As tens of thousands gather in Copenhagen to hammer out innovative strategies for cooling the planet, here's a carbon-cutting idea consumers can rally behind: Car insurance based on the miles you drive.
Believe it or not, some good things happened for city subway and bus riders in 2009 -- along with the bad. So here's my list of the best and worst in transit during the year that's just ending.
Most of the discussion around the "greening" of the automotive industry over the last decade has focused primarily on making vehicles more fuel-effici...
I recently moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, and will be publishing occasional pieces here on Bolivian politics as well as my personal adventures. Here's ...
Last week I had the honor of being one of seven smart growth types recruited by the American Institute of Architects to work with the city of Ind...
What Halloween would be complete without the annual Straphangers Campaign trick o' treat of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority?
What do the editorial writers for the Denver Post want? More roads. Perhaps they should visit Los Angeles to see how well that worked.
Instead of buying a new car, I bought a Vespa. And you know what? It has turned out to be the perfect complement to my alternative transportation lifestyle.
Reducing consumption is hard enough, but doing No Impact Week in a country where the buses are dangerous and the air pollution is much higher than what is healthy -- that's a challenge.
Tomorrow, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority can and should pass the Long Range Transportation Plan, paving the way for $300 billion in investment over the next 30 years.
Representatives of the New York metropolitan region have a special responsibility to advocate for increased federal funding for mass transit.
The CTA doomsday budget, even if it doesn't come to pass, has done a great service by showing the city the inevitable future. Service has been trending downward for decades.
Several years ago, I undertook a year-long experiment to minimize my personal waste. At the time, "no impact" wasn't a common term. I just wanted to see how waste-wise efficient I could be.
This past week, our East Coast Greenway began to move from a solely grassroots initiative to a project also backed by the most important transportatio...
Frankly, I don't know what came first -- the image problem or the fact that the Reykjavík's (privately-run) public transport system is like something out of the dark ages.
