#Transit

Haiqa Cheema

haiqa_cheema

Since 1 in 4 Edmontonians are millennials then we must design our city and communities to reflect the challenges our generation faces. It’s not enough to be just proud of

Payt🗳️n Chung

paytonchung

Pretty good video, but the offered solution is just Run More Buses (aka driving air around the suburbs).A typical 7.3 mi commute at 12 MPH urban local bus speed =

Matt Elliott

GraphicMatt

I understand the TTC’s enormous financial pressures, and the feds/province haven’t announced extra funds to keep transit agencies going, but this announcement about layoffs worries me a lot. http://www.ttc.ca/News/2020/April/23_04_20NR_reducing_costs

Christof Spieler, PE, AICP, LEED AP

christofspieler

Two lessons for transit agencies in the past several days:(1) Make a plan to never strand riders(2) Think about an agency’s relationship with the police First: It is never OK

Mayor Brian Bowman

Mayor_Bowman

Thanks to our federal government partners for the Safe Restart funding being distributed by provincial governments across Canada. The City of Winnipeg has been asking for confirmation of funding from

GRTSocialists (formerly LabourGRT)

GRTSocialists

Answer regarding whether Priti Patel's legislation proposes an existential threat to us:Yes, especially to the poorest/most vulnerable families who have nowhere to go. There is a shortage of sites nationwide

TransitCenter

TransitCenter

We'll be starting our panel on "Centering Transit Equity During the Crisis and Beyond" in a few minutes (2 pm ET/11 am PT) -- still time to RSVP!https://transitcenter.org/event/centering-transit-equity-during-the-crisis-and-beyond/ >

Christof Spieler, PE, AICP, LEED AP

christofspieler

As we talk transportation, urbanism, cities, and racism, Transit agencies, and the transit industry, should not assume we are the good guys, or, as @Jay_Pitter put it, “bringers of solution.”

Manish Shirgaokar

CityProfessor

Re-designing my Transit Bike Ped class, but I'm in a rut. Help me with ideas for assignments that work in this pandemic @DrTCombs @PedBikeBob @KManaugh @DrTaraGoddard @transitmom @jmbarajas @n_j_klein @kateontransport

JJ Robinson II

EverydayEagle

Not seeing sources for the Federalist statistics, and they're using unemployment as "as a proxy for the degree of a state’s effort to lock down residents", which may be suspect.https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/26/data-left-

Cristi

Cristi15458088

Export and transit volumes of oil and gas through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), Baku-Supsa and Baku-Erzerum pipelines has not been suspended, representatives of t (SOCAR) and BP said in the morning of

Brent Toderian

BrentToderian

Did u know there’s a North American city that for decades has had a low parking MAXIMUM downtown, AND developers can only build HALF that max on their site? For

Evan Woolley

EWoolleyWard8

1/ #GreenLine will help shape Calgary for the next 100 years. Lets talk about what the future holds.Even during economic downturns, #Calgary has seen transit ridership grow. The graph below

Queen Anne Greenways

QAGreenways

I wanted to learn something from this podcast episode but it ended up being an hour of anecdotal chatter. I think an interview with an actual transit planner would have

Lou Miranda

TheNewLou

In the US, when we want to add ”cycling amenities”, we somehow always think of fast suburban sports commuters in Lycra & helmets who want showers.If we had better land

Prof. Olney 🏳️‍🌈

MarthaOlney

One econ idea that I think needs boosting in public discourse: externalities. [1] Of *course* the USPS doesn't pay for itself. It shouldn't. It should be subsidized by the public