As announced by LA Streetsblog, UCLA researchers recently launched a website of photos taken by transit riders around Los Angeles that I highly recommend checking out. The site, called “The Zen of Public Transit: Using Visual Ethnography to Understand the Transit Experience” is more than just The Source’s weekday “Art [continue reading]
Nearly every proposed transit project involves asking the public: what do you think? Most often, the public submits written comments or maybe makes an official statement at a public meeting. A group of stakeholders in Detroit decided to try something different when it came to commenting on the Woodward Avenue [continue reading]
During the many dozens (if not hundreds) of hours I have spent waiting for buses, the thought occurred to me many times that it would be so sweet if I could just look down at a computer or my smartphone and actually see the location of the next bus. Folks… [continue reading]
Thanks to Rebecca, Kathryn and the other good people at the Google Research | Structured Data Group, a map I created to show the distribution of Americans living in urban areas for a story about the need to fund urban mass transit is now fully functional. If I don’t say [continue reading]
Last month, more than 160 members of Congress said they would support getting rid of federal New Starts funding to save money. New Starts is a program that provides metro areas help to build large transit projects that otherwise would be difficult, if impossible, to pay for themselves. The program, [continue reading]
Good news, transit riders: The pre-tax transit subsidy will remain at $230 per month through the end of 2011. Originally, the subsidy was scheduled to fall back to $120 per month on December 31st. The retention of the increased pre-tax transit subsidy was a part of the tax bill signed [continue reading]
By way of the New York Times comes news that the temporary boost in the mass transit benefit may come to an end if Congress does not renew it before the end of 2010. Presently, mass transit commuters may deduct up to $230 of their monthly costs. (Note: commuters who [continue reading]
