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  • Honey, Friday’s Headlines Shrunk the SUV

    Sep 27, 2024, 12:03 am By Blake Aued
    New Biden administration regulations forcing automakers to consider pedestrians’ safety in crashes could finally put the brakes on “car bloat,” the ever-increasing size of trucks and SUVs. (Fast Company) One possible explanation for transit’s doom…
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  • Friday Video: Experience 40 Blissful Hours In An Amtrak Sleeper Car in Just 29 Minutes

    Sep 27, 2024, 12:02 am By Streetsblog
    Summer vacation season may be over, but you still have time to take a virtual trip with award-winning travel journalist, remote social worker, and proudly self-described “train travel queen” Sojourner White. Check out her latest video, where she documents…
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  • Modified ‘Jaywalking’ Repeal Passes NYC Council

    Sep 26, 2024, 3:25 pm By Kevin Duggan
    The Council on Thursday passed a bill to legalize walking into the street outside of crosswalks, sometimes known as “jaywalking,” two weeks after holding off on the legislation due to advocates raising concerns that it put too much blame on pedestrians.…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: How MPOs Can Help Design Safe Streets

    Sep 26, 2024, 10:00 am By Jeff Wood
    This week we’re joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission to talk about how the federally designated “Metropolitan Planning Organizations” can help localities build complete streets and create safe…
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  • Thursday’s High-Tech Headlines

    Sep 26, 2024, 12:08 am By Blake Aued
    V2X technology allowing vehicles to communicate with each other is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s “moonshot” toward Vision Zero. (Bloomberg) Cities are using new technology to change the way they use curbs; for example, installing sensors to…
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  • US DOT Takes Critical Step to Stop Assaults on Transit Workers

    Sep 26, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    Transit agencies across America have 90 days to answer three urgent questions facing their systems today: how likely their workers are to be assaulted on the job, what they’re doing to stop it, and whether those efforts are making a difference or creating…
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  • National Park Service Weighs Cutting Car Traffic to Yosemite

    Sep 25, 2024, 8:10 pm By Melanie Curry
    The National Park Service is winding up a two-year planning process and will accept public comment on its proposed Visitor Access Management Plan until September 30. Yosemite National Park is an extremely popular California treasure. In 2016, five million…
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  • After Short-Lived Ban, Kei Trucks Get the OK In Massachusetts

    Sep 25, 2024, 4:07 pm By Dan Albert
    Nathan Fontes-Fried of Swampscott had been living with a sense of dread all summer as he waited for the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) to revoke the title and registration on his company truck. Liveried in a sky blue with a white right whale…
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  • Report Shows — Again — Why Cities Must Build Safe Bike Lanes

    Sep 25, 2024, 12:00 pm By George Kevin Jordan
    It may sound obvious, but if cities build more — and safe — bike lanes, cyclists will use them more … and be safer. That’s the basic finding of a new study released today by the League of American Bicyclists and mobility giant Lime, which studied…
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  • Bicycle Transit Systems Beefs Up To Compete With Lyft After Acquiring BCycle

    Sep 25, 2024, 12:03 am By David Meyer
    It’s a big deal. Bike-share operations provider Bicycle Transit Systems is acquiring BCycle from Trek in a bid to compete with Lyft. Bicycle Transit’s relationship with BCycle goes back nearly a decade — the firm uses BCycle bikes for the three…
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  • Carpocalypse Now: MTA Releases Granular Bus Speed Data Showing Need for Congestion Pricing

    Sep 25, 2024, 12:02 am By Dave Colon
    Oh happy data. The public now has a powerful new data tool to understand city bus speeds — broken down by route segments — which the MTA posted online on Tuesday that shows just how badly bus riders need congestion pricing. Previously, the agency only…
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  • Wednesday’s Mega-Headlines Don’t Come Around Here Anymore

    Sep 25, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    Low-cost intercity bus company Megabus has gone belly up (Streetsblog USA), and you can lay its demise at the feet of private equity (Business Insider), but at least some of its routes in the Northeast are being picked up by another company (Baltimore Sun).…
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  • The Challenge: A Week Without Driving

    Sep 24, 2024, 5:28 pm By Abby Arnold
    Editor’s note: A Week Without Driving is a national event sponsored by America Walks, taking place from September 30 through October 6 this year. Streetsblog boardmember Abby Arnold is taking part in it this year, and plans to write about her experience.…
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  • New Crisis for Inter-City Customers As Megabus Goes Bust

    Sep 24, 2024, 12:03 am By Aaron Short
    A dollar won’t get you as far as it used to.   Customers across the country were left in the lurch after Megabus, one of the nation’s most prominent low-cost bus carriers, canceled routes in multiple states two months after its parent company Coach USA…
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  • What ‘Doom Loop’? LA’s Metro Ridership Keeps Growing

    Sep 24, 2024, 12:02 am By
    After taking a significant dip at the outset of COVID, Metro transit ridership has been steadily recovering. New figures released today show that Metro averaged 963,068 daily weekday boardings in August 2024. Metro cut service in 2020, then fully restored…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Call for a Truce

    Sep 24, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    With cities and states fighting with Uber and Lyft over gig workers’ labor rights, Bloomberg proposes a federal compromise in which drivers keep their independent contractor status but are guaranteed benefits and a minimum wage. Bikeshare operator Bicycle…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Climb Mount Doom

    Sep 23, 2024, 1:20 am By Blake Aued
    The “doom loop” has arrived, with federal funding for transit running out, cities cutting service and ridership still not fully recovered from the pandemic. (Streetsblog USA) The work-from-home trend shouldn’t mean transit agencies cut service. Instead,…
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  • Meet the Advocates Pushing St. Louis’s Transportation Transformation

    Sep 23, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
    Editor’s note: this article is the fourth and last in a series about a pivotal moment in St. Louis’s sustainable transportation evolution, and how it mirrors similar moments in other U.S. cities. Click here to read the entire series. St. Louis’s…
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  • ‘Doom Loop’ Alert: Transit Systems are Suffering — And Too Many Are Cutting Service

    Sep 20, 2024, 11:53 am By Amal Ahmed
    As local leaders present budgets for the next fiscal year, public transportation funds are on the chopping block, in cities large and small. Pandemic relief funds, which have kept many systems afloat for the past few years, are set to be drawn down in many…
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  • Friday’s Heavy Metal Headlines

    Sep 20, 2024, 12:56 am By Blake Aued
    Feeling safer driving a huge SUV is a luxury available only to the rich, and there are diminishing returns. According to The Economist, for each life saved by being inside one of the heaviest vehicles in a crash, a dozen lives are lost. (State Smart…
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