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January 3, 2017
Seattle: America’s Next Top Transit City

Seattle, one of the fastest growing cities in America, is making bold investments to ensure the majority of its residents live within walking distance of frequent transit.

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December 19, 2016
Why Tactical Transit is the Next Big Thing

The raffish, worldwide movement known as tactical urbanism appears poised to take on a meatier role in transportation planning efforts.

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December 12, 2016
TransitCenter’s Best Worst Most of 2016

The year in brilliant, confounding & lamentable transportation developments.

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November 29, 2016
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves…

We are updating how we communicate, including on this website, to double down on our mission, advocating for better public transit in America.

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November 28, 2016
Capping the way to Fairer Fares

The deBlasio administration and transit and community advocates are currently debating lower-cost fares for New Yorkers living paycheck-to-paycheck. A fare policy innovation in London could help, but it would require replacing the dated MetroCard with a more advanced fare payment system.

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November 16, 2016
We’ve Seen the Future of Transit Fares

Transit experts from London, San Francisco, Oslo and Boston convened at TransitCenter to address the fare payment system of the future, providing examples of innovative payment solutions their agencies have adopted

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November 9, 2016
Mixed Highway/Transit Ballots Tank At Polls

With nearly $200 billion in public transportation investments on ballots across the country, results suggest that tying transit scraps to highway meals is politically ineffective.

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November 1, 2016
Memo to MTA Board: You’re Measuring Performance Wrong. Here’s What to Do Instead.

To get riders where they need to go within reliable time-frames, the MTA must break new ground in measuring performance as well as commit to making the information public.

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October 24, 2016
A Conversation with Chicago’s Active Transportation Alliance

An interview with Ron Burke and Kyle Whitehead of Active Transportation Alliance, the walking, biking and transit advocacy organization in Chicagoland.

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October 21, 2016
Leicester’s Sir Peter Soulsby Leads the Way

Leicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby visited TransitCenter to discuss the role of bus transit in moving Leicester forward today.

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October 18, 2016
RideNOLA driving the transit policy debate in New Orleans

The average New Orleanian with a car can reach 89 percent of the region’s jobs in 30 minutes or less, but the average New Orleanian relying on transit can only reach 11 percent of those jobs in the same time period.

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October 13, 2016
MTA’s Elevators Going Nowhere, Slowly

For the majority of people that live 1 stop away near the Borough Hall station in Brooklyn, like I do, this would mean reaching the comforts of home in 15 minutes or less. As a person who uses a wheelchair, however, my daily commute is significantly less straightforward.

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