Commentary: St. Louis Has Real Development Ops
May 19, 2011|St. Louis Post Dispatch
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Are St. Louisans ready to live, work and play in sustainable, walkable, higher-density communities? A sold-out crowd of more than 200 St. Louisans packed the room for a recent Citizens for Modern Transit and ULI St. Louis Transit Oriented Development Forum to ponder just that... Read On
Blogosphere: Sprawling Jobs Make Transit's Job Tough
May 19, 2011|New Republic Avenue
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New Brookings research on transit and access to jobs enables for the first time metro to metro comparisons on transit performance. One question quickly emerges: Do metro areas with well-established transit systems provide the best access to jobs?... Read On
Blogosphere: Committee Recommends Wilshire BRT
May 19, 2011|The Source
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A 7.7-mile Wilshire Boulevard peak hour bus plane project was endorsed on Wednesday afternoon by the Metro Board of Directors' planning committee by a vote of 5 to 0. It is the same route recommended by Metro staff... Read On
Seattle: SLU Employers to Fund More Streetcar Service
May 19, 2011|Seattle Times
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Employers are betting $65,000 that if the South Lake Union streetcar runs more often, more commuters will want to ride. The money will fund a yearlong experiment starting in June to add a third train, so a streetcar arrives every 10 minutes... Read On
Maryland: Cost of Purple Line Up on Design Changes
May 19, 2011|Washington Post
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Building a 16-mile Purple Line through Montgomery and Prince George's counties will take two years longer and cost $135 million more than previous estimates, Maryland officials say... Read On
Blogosphere: What Makes a Great Subway Map
May 18, 2011|Human Transit
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What should Washington Metro's next subway map look like? Greater Greater Washington is running a map contest where you can compare a number of designs, and choose your favorite. Can you improve on the existing one, pictured here?... Read On
Research: Impact of Transit Maps on Path Choice
May 18, 2011|Transportationist
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Zhan Guo at NYU has a very nice paper in TR part A about the distortionary effects of Harry Beck's London Underground Map: Mind the map! The impact of transit maps on path choice in public transit: ... Read On
Commentary: Let Community Decide Bus and Rail
May 18, 2011|Tampa Tribune
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The board of directors of Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) will shortly be faced with deciding whether to complete an alternatives analysis required by the federal government. The process is intended to determine which transportation mode - rail, bus rapid transit or expanded bus - best meets the region's future transportation needs... Read On
Blogosphere: US Rail Construction Costs Compared
May 17, 2011|Pedestrian Observations
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This is a placeholder post, in which I'm just going to summarize the costs of projects in the US and the rest of the world. I will focus on subway tunnels, but also put some above-ground rail for comparison... Read On
Blogosphere: 7 Transpo Improvements to Agree On
May 17, 2011|Streetsblog DC
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The Reason Foundation, a free-market think tank, is not always a transportation reformer's best friend. Its scholars gave Florida Gov. Rick Scott inaccurate advice he then used to justify killing high-speed rail in his state. They want to prevent the gas tax from funding "peripheral" programs like transit and active transportation... Read On
