Public Transit
A local bus stop offers the setting for an experiment in beautification.
The Boston Globe
After a bus system redesign a year ago, Columbus is one of a few cities in the country where bus ridership is increasing.
Streetsblog USA
The federal government approved $1.4 billion in funding for public transit projects as part of the omnibus spending bill signed by President Trump in March. The Federal Transit Administration still hasn't sent the money to local officials.
CityLab
The New York MTA is on a mission to mitigate bus bunching, the telltale sign of unreliable service.
StreetsBlog NYC
The WMATA's Quality Assurance, Internal Compliance & Oversight office delivered bad news to the beleaguered transit service.
WTOP
It's going to be tough to be a transit user in the Seattle suburb of Everett.
The Urbanist
A system in disrepair is losing riders when it could use the fare box revenue the most.
The New York Times
Marisa Lago pens in an opinion piece supporting a regional approach to planning, timed for the release of a new "Geography of Jobs" report.
Medium
Lobbyists from a diesel bus manufacturer, New Flyer, reached out to Miami's mayor after the company lost a bid for new buses in the city to electric bus company Proterra.
The Miami Herald
Though San Francisco residents are more likely than residents of other cities to ride transit and avoid driving, the buses they ride on are unreliable.
Curbed SF
An extended Crenshaw Line would cut north-south through the middle of the Los Angeles basin, connecting three rail transit lines and some of the busiest buses in the county. Some don't want to wait 30 years for the plan to come to fruition.
Los Angeles Times
It's everyone's favorite time of year. Streetsblog USA is searching for the "Sorriest Bus Stop in America."
Streetsblog USA
There are solutions to slow, unreliable bus service. These local buses don't have any of those solutions going for them.
Crain's New York Business
Cincinnati's bus riders are overwhelmingly black and poor, and looming deficits threaten to make service even worse.
Cincinnati Enquirer
The rebranding of Nashville MTA comes only a few months after voters rejected a tax referendum that would paid for a $5.4 billion transit plan.
Nashville Business Journal
The Transportation Planning Organization will budget a study on how best to connect trails to transit hubs.
Miami Today
A new network of buses, designed with the bus priority features, has been proposed in Miami. The catch: it would come at the expense of a promised rail extension program.
Miami Herald
It's time for a fresh start, says a bus system redesign expert.
StreetsBlog NYC
An annual survey by the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota measures job availability, job location, population density, and the availability of transit.
Smart Cities Dive
A grant application would fund the purchase of eight electric buses to join the START Bus fleet.
JH News and Guide
