The year in brilliant, confounding & lamentable transportation developments.   1. Least-vetted gigantic multi-billion transit proposal unveiled during an annual mayoral address: Bill de Blasio’s “BQX” 2. Best piece ever written about Uber and public policy: Wired/Aarian Marshall’s “3 hot…

Oh 2018, what can we say? On the plus side, there were fewer trains on fire, both literally and metaphorically. Tech bros still gave us plenty of reasons to cringe, but public opinion seems to have…

The New York City boomtown of 2015 or 2005 could never have been built above the decrepit subway system of 1985. And once again, transit in New York is in need of an epic save. New…

Open transit data makes using transit easy. It creates transparency and an informed public, facilitates citizen engagement, enables new research, helps transit agencies make better-informed decisions, and makes it possible for private companies to do free…

News out of Detroit this week is trumpeting Friday’s launch of the Q-Line, a privately funded streetcar that runs 3.3 miles in mixed traffic along Woodward Avenue, the city’s Main Street. Without any knowledge of whether…

As a follow-up to our post about how to download and interact with National Transit Database (NTD) ridership data, we further explore how to interpret and use this data. While myriad factors govern whether people opt…

The impending departure of MTA Chair Tom Prendergast provides a moment to take stock of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s approach to the transit issues facing New York.  The challenges facing the agency are numerous: historic levels…

Today we’re elated to unveil a new TransitCenter brand identity to reflect and support our raised profile and voice in the public transportation ecosystem.  ‘We put transit in the center of cities’ is TransitCenter’s core message, and a key…