This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Select Bus Service gets a ‘B’ from East Side Manhattan riders New York’s relatively new BRT transit service has proven quite popular with [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. The odd link between commute direction and marital satisfaction (The Atlantic Cities) A new study [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. New York aims to install interactive touch-screen tablets in subway stations New York’s MTA is working to add ‘On the Go!’ interactive tablets [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Portland, Ore. struggles to remain a leader in public transit Ryan Holeywell of Governing Magazine takes an in-depth look at the state of [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Steelers, casino to foot bill for free transit rides on new Pittsburgh line Here’s an interesting tidbit coming in over the wire: The [continue reading]
New historic streetcar line & bike sharing pilot planned for SF in time for America’s Cup What does the America’s Cup yacht race have to do with transit? No, schooners aren’t pulling double-duty as ferries. Rather, San Francisco is ramping up public transit and bike-sharing investments in advance of the [continue reading]
photo by clarkmaxwell, via Flickr creative commons Nice miniaturized photo of the ‘El’ in downtown Chicago. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of the photos we’ve featured [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. USDOT awards $186 million to Illinois to expand high-speed rail in the Midwest Thanks to another grant from the federal government, higher-speed rail [continue reading]
photo by David B. Gleason, via Flickr’s creative commons The photo is from 2007, but it’s a good one, showing an ultra-wide bike lane on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, where current Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed building 25 miles of protected bike lanes each year. Those are lanes in which [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. UTA to debut local public art in Utah County The regional transit authority for Salt Lake has not one, but three blogs: Trains [continue reading]
