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An Infrastructure Startup for All Those Crumbling Roads
Some students struggle to stay awake in their college civil engineering course. Coady Cameron was starting a business.In 2012, during his fourth year, Cameron was learning how cities collect...
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The Triumphant Return of the Chinatown Bus
The success of Chinatown bus carriers in the late 1990s and early 2000s announced the return of the intercity bus, accounting for millions of annual trips and giving rise to low-cost curbside options...
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How to Keep Cyclists Riding Even in the Frigid Snowy Winter
U.S. cities aren’t the easiest places to navigate by bike even on a perfect day, so it’s not a surprise that many cyclists send their wheels into hibernation come the snows and slick roads of winter....
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Where Sprawl Makes It Tougher to Rise Up the Social Ranks
For the land of opportunity, America ranks dismally low on upward mobility among the world’s developed countries. But what the groundbreaking work of Raj Chetty and others at the Equality of...
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Why Are States About to Get $2 Billion in Extra Road Money?
It’s been several years since Congress banned earmarks, but they’re still paying off for state transportation departments in a big way—up to $2 billion big.The 2016 omnibus spending bill included a...
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São Paulo Offers the Best Plan Yet for Dealing With Uber
Much like Keyser Soze, the greatest trick Uber ever played was convincing some of the world’s biggest cities that, when it comes to traffic, it doesn’t exist. But don’t count São Paulo, Brazil, among...
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Some Bus Riders Do Secretly Just Want a Car
The talk of the public transit world yesterday centered on a report by Laura J. Nelson and Dan Weikel of the Los Angeles Times spotlighting a troublesome decline in local bus and rail ridership. The...
View ArticleNew Houston Mayor to Texas DOT: Wider Roads Mean More Traffic
Count new Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner among the growing crowd of local transportation officials wary of road-expansion as a solution to traffic problems. Turner told the Texas Transportation...
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Late Trains Aren't Amtrak's Biggest Problem
Amtrak has broken lots of ridership records lately, and it’s especially popular relative to air travel in the Northeast Corridor. But America’s train service recently announced that passenger trips...
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New York Has a Streetcar Plan That Isn't Totally Awful
There tend to be three main problems with the way modern streetcars get planned in American cities.One is related to mobility: when streetcar tracks run in mixed traffic, that leads to conflicts with...
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Some Bike Infrastructure Is Worse Than None at All
Denver gave rise to the sharrow in the early 1990s, and now two researchers there offer a compelling case to put the lowly form of bike infrastructure to rest.You’ve seen a sharrow painted on city...
View ArticleToward a Stronger Theory of NIMBYism
The old adage about pornography from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart—that it’s hard to define, but you know it when you see it—could just as easily apply to NIMBYism. If the term were merely a...
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A Bold Transportation Plan for Urban America—Dead on Arrival
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s newly released fiscal 2017 budget is about 70 pages long, but you need only look at the cover to catch its drift. The lead image shows the pedestrian-friendly,...
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America's School Teachers Are Confused About Climate Change
Any concerted effort to fight climate change requires a strong public consensus that people are the primary cause of the problem, but many Americans aren’t so sure that’s the case. In one recent poll...
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Commuters Don't Stop Driving to Work Unless You Take Away Free Parking
Congress recently reestablished parity for commuter tax benefits, granting people who take transit into work as well as those who drive in and park at the office the same $255 a month in 2016. With...
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How to Ride the D.C. Streetcar
The District of Columbia’s Department of Transportation has released a fun video on how to ride the D.C. Streetcar in advance of its announced launch date a decade ago later this month. Close your eyes...
View ArticleOf Course Copenhagen Is Giving Bicycles Traffic-Light Priority
The best urban cycling system in the world is about to get a little better.Long home to a highly advanced bike network, Copenhagen will reportedly replace 380 traffic signals with intelligent lights...
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Can a New Urban Highway Avoid the Mistakes of the Past?
Lafayette, Louisiana, shouldn’t have to debate the social hazards of building a highway straight through the heart of a city. It’s been living proof of them for decades.In the 1960s, the Evangeline...
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The Real Source of America's Urban Revival
Something strange happened in U.S. cities circa 2000: people started to move downtown. Not all people. If you look at the top 100 metro areas between 2000 and 2010, only two downtowns grew faster than...
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The World's 15 Most Complex Subway Maps
For all its colorful frenzied glory, the Tokyo Metro map isn’t the most complex subway guide in the world. New York and Paris both have it topped—at least in the eyes of one group of theoretical...
View ArticleWhy Tokyo Is Home to So Many Cyclists But So Few Bike Lanes
The Gaman Spirit: Why Cycling Works in Tokyo from STREETFILMS on Vimeo.It’s estimated that about 14 percent of all trips in Tokyo are made by bicycle. That’s an admirable figure in its own right; in...
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BART Will Pay Commuters Not to Travel During Rush Hour
There’s no worse way to start off a day than by jamming into a crowded rush-hour subway train. With many transit lines packed to capacity, or little money to increase service, there’s often little an...
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A $50 Million Plan to Get Cities Thinking About Driverless Cars
Given all the advances being made in driverless cars, America’s cities have been startlingly slow to incorporate the technology into their plans. A recent analysis found that, as of mid-2013, just one...
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Where the Streets Have No Names (Only Numbers)
It’s often said—at least it was before the age of Google Maps—that you can find your way around New York as long as you can count. The city’s systematic grid of numbered streets and avenues, imposed in...
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See How the 2nd Avenue Subway Will Help Your Commute
The first phase of New York’s Second Avenue subway is scheduled to open at the end of 2016, just a shade under a century since its conception. (If you bet the under on 100 years back in 1920 and have...
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