Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit

As Jobs Sprawl Outside Indianapolis, Transit Tries to Keep Pace

By Yonah Freemark | Jun 30, 2017 | No Comments

Like most places in America, the Indianapolis region is suburbanizing. That’s particularly true for jobs. Between 2002 and 2014, the most recent data available, the number of jobs within the city's borders increased by 40,000 - but that's far fewer than the 83,000 jobs added in the region's suburbs.

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An All-Too-Rare Idea to Improve Transit: Put People Who Ride Transit in Charge

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 30, 2017 | No Comments

It’s hard to improve transit if the people who oversee policy don’t know what makes for good service. And yet, agency boards are often dominated by political hacks with little or no transit expertise -- many don’t even know what it’s like to ride the bus or the train. Dallas is trying something different.

Slower Subways Will Cost New Yorkers $1.4 Billion This Year

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 26, 2017 | 7 Comments

New Yorkers are already paying for Cuomo's deteriorating MTA in the form of lost time, increased pollution, and poorer health.

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Portland Has a Plan to Do for Buses What It Did for Cycling

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 23, 2017 | No Comments

Portland officials are developing a plan for a network of "Enhanced Transit Corridors," carving out space in the street for buses so vehicles with 30 passengers aren't stuck in a quagmire of vehicles carrying just one.

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Can Transit Work Well in a Sprawling City Like Indianapolis?

By Yonah Freemark | Jun 22, 2017 | No Comments

In Indianapolis, transit service is scarce and very few people use the existing system. A key reason for these lackluster outcomes is the city's sprawling pattern of development.

He's the boss. Photo: Flickr/NYS Governor's Office

Cuomo Doesn’t Need a New Law to Fix the Subways — He’s Already in Charge of the MTA

By Ben Fried | Jun 21, 2017 | 2 Comments

With subway service failing spectacularly on an almost daily basis, the MTA is in desperate need of firm, straightforward leadership. Instead, Governor Cuomo is giving riders an outlandish song-and-dance about why all the transit system's problems up until this point are not his fault.

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