Several city lawmakers rode along packed subway cars in an effort to gather feedback from commuters on the challenges they face every day. Tour participants traveled station to station, assessing infrastructure and interviewing subway riders, focusing on experiences related to accessibility...
| Read more >Electric scooters are spreading in the Triangle. When they arrive in Durham, they won’t just be downtown or just for riders who speak English. The Durham City Council is finalizing regulations and wants to make sure they serve the whole city and Spanish-speaking riders, too.
| Read more >Chicago’s upcoming mayoral race—newly wide-open because of the decision of Mayor Rahm Emanuel not to run for reelection—is an exciting opportunity to advance changes that produce a more livable city. That’s a goal that surely every candidate would sign on to. Key to livability is transportation....
| Read more >Ohio is one of the worst states at supporting transit – but it’s not for lack of money. The latest budget provides just $6.5 million a year towards supporting urban transit across the state. Both Cincinnati and Cleveland’s transit system are facing service cuts and fare hikes thanks to changes...
| Read more >Companies want to help cities enforce and regulate new mobility devices like e-scooters, bikes, or car-shares by offering up real-time data. Movement through cities is becoming more multimodal — taking the form of bikes, scooters, trams and more — and the management of these transportation...
| Read more >The sudden appearance of dockless scooters and bikes in Denver, and the range of reactions they have provoked, is shining a spotlight on an issue that has been simmering, and may have finally reached the boiling point: What is the best use of public rights-of-way — streets and sidewalks — in our...
| Read more >Fast-growing Denver is grappling with the equity challenges of rapid growth in a number of ways, from expanding its parks system to providing rental assistance for moderate-income families to move into the city’s glut of luxury condos. The city’s transit-oriented development fund has become a...
| Read more >African-American passengers are bearing the brunt of BART’s new fines for riders who fail to pay fares, as they receive tickets at a rate that appears to be far higher than their proportion of overall ridership, data from the agency shows. During a 14-day period in July, African-American riders...
| Read more >Houstonians have been arguing loudly for several years over plans to expand the city’s light rail system. Now the local transit agency, Houston Metro, has decided to cast its lot mainly with faster buses as the way forward for long-range transit improvements, according to a Houston Chronicle...
| Read more >Although a new, dockless bike-share program is being rolled out throughout the city of Minneapolis, underserved areas are being targeted for the first hubs. Equity is one of the main drivers for Minneapolis' transition to dockless. The goal is to make sure transportation deserts and low-income...
| Read more >Transportation systems don’t just move people around—they can also be catalysts for moving cities forward. But too often, between state-level inertia (see: New York’s inability to cope with New York City’s subway crisis) and the lack of serious federal investment in infrastructure and public...
| Read more >The glacial pace and the frequent overcrowding (and cancellations) of the No. 111 bus from Revere to Haymarket will top the agenda of the MBTA’s oversight committee. The debate over the 111 highlights what is sometimes called transportation equity as Chelsea residents endure a lot more than MBTA...
| Read more >Baltimore’s 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Plan project viewer shows with a single dot the only mass transit project to be constructed in Baltimore City over the next four years. Most projects will be highway “preservation” projects which are largely maintenance projects including road...
| Read more >A Regional Transportation District board committee recently approved major changes for its train and bus passes, aimed at making them more equitable. The proposal has been in the works for more than a year and a half, and has had input from a working group made up of a wide variety of advocacy...
| Read more >Advocates say the Federal Transit Administration is sitting on nearly $1.8 billion that’s supposed to help build light rail lines, streetcars and subway improvements. Delaying these projects, they argue, could increase costs for local transit agencies.
| Read more >Ride share company Lyft is entering the scooter arms race, marked by launching its scooter rental program in Denver. Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green detailed their ambitions in a public post in July, stressing transportation equity and sustainability, intending for Lyft bikes and...
| Read more >Lime has announced "a pivotal step" towards ensuring transportation equity in the communities it serves. In a recent blog post detailing the news, the company, a shared mobility solution provider, said that it is expanding its Lime Access program to include 50 percent off of Lime’s entire fleet...
| Read more >Electric scooters and bike shares are increasingly offering up alternatives for short trips in Detroit's urban center. For workers, shoppers, or visitors, MoGo and Bird create affordable last-mile solutions to supplement public transportation and private vehicle use. Mobility innovations have...
| Read more >Gwinnett County lawmakers approve a tax-hike referendum for the March ballot. The times – and maybe even the suburbs! – are a-changin: Lawmakers in Georgia’s historically anti-transit Gwinnett County approved a ballot initiative for a one-cent sales tax hike to bring heavy rail and bus rapid...
| Read more >Are water main breaks getting fixed as quickly in black neighborhoods as majority-white ones? Is snow plowed as promptly? Is the city approving tax incentives for black- and white-owned businesses in an equitable manner? Those are the kinds of questions Baltimore agencies will have to wrestle...
| Read more >A federal law has done little to advance transportation fairness for low-income communities. Progress is up to local leaders. Questions of fairness have always been central to public transit. Decisions about whether to raise fares or cut service or about the geography of transit expansion have...
| Read more >Those who fear displacement don’t see it that way. What do we think about when we think about transportation equity? There is regional equity, modal funding equity, ridership equity, and then there is social equity. Fundamentally, social equity relates not simply to treating all people fairly,...
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