Many transit agencies across the country will soon face financial calamity as federal COVID emergency funding dries up and the durability of work from home keeps fare revenue suppressed. Agencies in the Bay Area were some…

What your city can learn from #6minuteservice In September 2022, Riders Alliance, a member-led transit advocacy group in New York City, launched a nine month-long campaign calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to invest in more frequent…

Note: Some sections of this post initially appeared on Transportation for America’s blog, and are reprinted here with permission.  According to the American Public Transportation Association, in the five years leading up to the pandemic, ridership…

This post was written by guest contributor James Brasuell.  In November 2020, Austin voters approved Proposition A, setting in motion one of the most ambitious capital investment programs in the entire country, Project Connect. Proposition A…

Click here to watch a recording of the event This is a challenging moment for the transit industry. We’re feeling it—you’re probably feeling it—and many transit agencies are definitely feeling it. Since the pandemic struck, more…

This post was written by our 2022 research fellow, Kieran Micka-Maloy As part of our exploration into what our Equity Dashboard reveals about transit access in the seven highest ridership U.S. cities, this blog post takes…

Our Equity Dashboard evaluates how well Boston residents could access essential destinations like healthcare, jobs, and grocery stores via public transit from February 2020 (right before the pandemic hit) through early August 2022.  The dashboard confirms…

A four-part series on the challenges facing the transit industry’s central office workforce.  By Laurel Paget-Seekins There are not enough people working at transit agencies to provide the service our communities need. This problem existed before…