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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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October 6, 2016
NYC BusTurnaround Report Card

Together with Riders Alliance, the Straphangers Campaign, and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, TransitCenter is convening a group of New Yorkers determined to reverse declining performance and ridership on the country’s busiest bus network by implementing proven solutions.

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October 4, 2016
Recent MTA Work on Buses Just Scratches the Surface

MTA responses to the July launch of the Turnaround: How to Fix NYC’s Buses report by a coalition of pro-transit groups asserted that “many of the recommendations in the report are actions the MTA is already taking.”

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September 15, 2016
Neither Panacea nor Poison

Cities and transit agencies can situate new services like Uber and car2go within broader urban transportation strategies to strengthen transit and reduce car dependence...

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July 7, 2016
What the Paris Trams Can Teach U.S. Cities

Across the Atlantic, however, the Paris regional transit agency has embarked on a street-level rail expansion effort far surpassing that of any city here.

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June 28, 2016
L.A. Dispatch: How Cities Can Roll Back Sprawl

Across the country, cities designed for cars are grappling with how to build high-quality transit and create urban forms that support it.

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June 22, 2016
“Decisions Touching the Lives of All of Us”: The Plan That Changed Boston Forever

In 1970, Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent took the unusual step of declaring a moratorium on highway construction inside Route 128, Boston's suburban beltway.

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June 16, 2016
Overflowing, Underfunded, Mishandled: A Tale of Three Subways

Why are the venerable subway systems in Boston, New York, and Washington in such dire condition?

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