Yep, RTD’s free fare August led to a ‘fantastic’ ridership increase, data shows By Nathaniel Minor· Oct. 20, 2022, CPR Passengers flocked to the Regional Transportation District’s buses and trains in the highest numbers since the beginning of the pandemic during a free fare program in August. RTD saw some 6.3 million boardings during that month’s state-sponsored “Zero Fare for Better Air” …
Reducing oil and gas use in transportation
This article originally appeared in WRI Insights. Read it here. https://www.greenbiz.com/article/5-ways-cut-oil-and-gas-use-through-clean-transportation There’s never been a better time to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon in the United States in March and more than $10 a gallon in other countries. Meanwhile, the …
Free fares are bringing riders back quicker
Feb 2022 https://gothamist.com/news/free-fares-could-bring-riders-back-mta-quicker-what-cost NY’s MTA is still suffering from low ridership during the weekdays due to the pandemic changing commuting patterns. It is relying on $16 billion in federal funding to balance its budget in the coming years, due to fare revenue shortfalls. But as the agency tries to bring ridership back to pre-pandemic levels, one idea we wanted to explore is what it …
Street View extends to 87 countries across the world and captures more than 10m miles of imagery
Google Street View – Maps, Place Street View has been extended to 87 countries across the world, including Swaziland, American Samoa and even Antarctica. It has captured more than 10m miles of imagery and taken on a significance to many users that goes beyond its utility as a navigational tool. During Covid, searches spiked 10-fold, as users roamed the world …
We already have a tool that can clean the air, reduce traffic, and expand job opportunity: the bus. It’s not complicated: More buses, running more frequently.
Molly McKinley, Denver Streets Partnership, Aug 4, 2021, Colorado Sun Last year was one for the record books, as evidenced by historic wildfires burning throughout the state as late as October. The harsh consequences of our car-oriented transportation system become more evident each day as communities both locally and across the country face devastating wildfires, flooding, unprecedented heat, and more …
Success of Drunk Driving Laws is Limited … If Drivers Have No Alternatives
Study: Success of Drunk Driving Laws is Limited … If Drivers Have No Alternatives (Streetsblog USA) By Kea Wilson, Aug 16, 2021 Lowering the threshold for how much a driver can drink before he gets behind the wheel may not actually make our streets safer — at least if communities don’t provide drinkers other ways to get around besides driving, a …
By 3-1 margin, Salt Lake City residents favor converting to a free bus system
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) A UTA supervisor directs TRAX riders to a bus to get them to the next stop, as Trax trains were not operating in downtown Salt Lake City on Jan. 28, 2017. By Lee Davidson | Aug. 6, 2019, 6:00 a.m.| Updated: Aug. 9, 2019, 6:03 a.m. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story relied …
Universal Basic Mobility and Mobility as a Service Approaches Underway in the US
Bloomberg, 2018 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/universal-basic-mobility-is-a-human-right Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been talked about as a way to address income inequality, but there’s a solution that directly stimulates employment: Universal Basic Mobility (UBM), by simply getting people to jobs. In areas where commutes are long, it’s hard for children to escape poverty, and in many cities, areas with poor mobility have high unemployment and …
Reforming heavy rail commuter transit in the US
Excerpt from Mass Transit and Governing – https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/news/21224126/us-commuter-rail-reform-faces-high-labor-infrastructure-costs May-June 2021 Staffing levels on the Berlin S-Bahn, the German capital city’s regional rail network, are about one-third the size of the Long Island Rail Road (America’s busiest commuter rail system), which in turn serves only about a third of the passengers. “In Spain or Germany, you just have the train driver, …
Transit riders need greater frequency of service and for transit to go where they need, more than they need fare free transit
The Problem With Free Transit: A growing movement wants to scrap bus and subway fares. That’s not what riders need most. By HENRY GRABAR, June 1, 2021, Slate The board of L.A. Metro, which runs the buses and subways in Los Angeles County, met on Thursday to consider a radical idea: making transit free. The agency has approved a pilot program that …