Chris Stines is Planetizen's former Editor and the founder of Urban Insight, a leading digital agency. Chris has 25 years of experience in technology consulting and urban planning and has served as a consultant to public sector state, county, and local agencies, Fortune 500 private firms, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
The Good And Mostly Bad News About Transit
Though we travel nearly one hundred times as much by auto as by transit, we spend less than four times as much on highways as on transit.
L.A.'s Traffic Worst In The Nation. Again.
Los Angeles, for the 15th time in a row, was named by the Texas Transportation Institute as the city with the worst traffic.
Chicago's Metropolis 2020
Selling an urban vision is never easy. But it's much more likely when the civic leadership stands behind it.
Transit Issues Debated In Non-technical Langauge
Published twice yearly, ACCESS is the official magazine of the University of California Transportation Center.
Getting Nowhere Fast In Rush Hour
Tampa commuters sit in rush hour traffic for 45 hours a year, the equivalent of a 40-hour work week plus 5 hours overtime, or an extra week's vacation at the beach -- but Los Angeles is three times worse.