One subset of what we might call "Seattle twitter" has been debating how we should think about the woman in this video: https://twitter.com/JaimeSeattle/status/1159268600391196673 This woman's direct action was captured by a local reporter, and went viral, with most local media doing stories on it. An...
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The Labour Party in the UK is flirting with re-nationalising British Rail. Fares are due to increase an average of 6% this year, and Britain already has the most expensive.
Wow. Did you even know Cincinnati had a subway? If the answer is "no," that's quite understandable. The subway never had a single train run through it and never served.
The fact that public transit is being cut as demand is increasing is not only bad and countercyclical in itself, but has additional bad side effects:One stop scheduled to be cut is in the western suburb of Chesterfield, Mo., just up the road from a...
Loomis, in reference to a post at the NYT's green blog:After taking Bank of American executives on a helicopter tour of mountaintop removal sites, the NRDC convinced the bank to.
This sounds like an incredibly bad idea:People who normally use Metro Transit’s [the Seattle bus system-ed] special service to get to ball games, community festivals, and other special events should.
This is pretty cool.My current home, in Cincinnati, scores an 80. My last apartment in Lexington scored a 98, although that's misleading; it counts as a grocery store something that really isn't a grocery store, and counts the Rite Aid that closed last month. My...
Matt pursues a rationalist explanation for bus ridership:My sense is that the main determinants of yuppie bus usage are the determinants of everyone else's transit choices -- it all has.
As someone who rides the NYC Subway daily, I'm happy for the system to be as safe as possible. But I've been ambivalent about the subway bag searches from the.