#TRANSIT

A (small) part of the reason NYC has bad transit is because transit advocates seem to hate everything but bus & bike lanes.Bike bridge? "Who needs it?"Ferries? "Absurd waste of

Not gonna link the story but I really think this is awful. If you are an urbanist or transit or safe-streets advocate your focus should be on systems, not individuals.

Aaron W. Gordon

I'm undecided if coronavirus is going to shift people away from public transit to private vehicles in the long run, but I'd be willing to bet quite a lot it

DrivenByTatiana

It drives me insane when cities want fewer people to drive but their "master plan" takes 10 years to implement.Bus service is limited, unreliable and expensive. But yes. Take public

ATU International President John Costa: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/12/business/ap-us-insider-qa-transit-workers.html Make transit safe with protective equipment for transit workers, strong mask-usage guidance for riders, service redistr

Jackie Lebenzon

So @WesternU can you explain why you are still making us pay for our bus passes in full when LTC not only has gone free, but is reducing all their

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I think that if you are a transit advocate, this is going to be a rough couple of years. Riding transit "normally" won't be possible at least until there's a

I'm going to make a renewed personal commitment to use public transit, bike or scooter for every possible trip within my district and the city. I just rode from one

A common trope is that people with disabilities cannot walk and need to drive, and therefore any policy that might inconvenience drivers constitutes ableism. Does the data on the travel

Philly Transit Riders Union

do riders know that they might be pulled off a SEPTA bus by 10 cops for not having a mask? SEPTA website says nothing about masks, twitter feed says they

Tim Querengesser

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1/How Edmonton transit fails Comparison one: spendingOttawaPopulation: 994,837Transit budget: $575M= $578 per personEdmonton Population: 981,280Transit budget: $367M= $374 per personEdmonton spends 64 per cent of what Ottawa spends on transit

I'm seeing a lot of writing that says that a "big get" for reducing GHG emissions from transportation would be zero-emission transit buses and trains. As a small part of

Since I'm more than 50% caught up with my to-do list (yet still horribly behind), a short thread on why I think this paper is neat. \being{thread}https://twitter.com/LGStudies/status/1247870664859582471 My co-authors and

Especially when it’s dark and rainy I rely on the bus to get where I need to go. I have always tried to arrange my life to be close to

Thread. Had a conference call this morning. My town is part of a group of suburban municipalities working on a public transportation study. Became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic might

Julio Gonzalez Altamirano

The focus on Prop A’s property tax cost is a flawed approach to evaluating its affordability implications. It erases renters & misinforms homeowners.The true cost of Prop A will be