May 25, 2020
Imagine: Traffic Relief & Better Quality-of-Life with Lower Cost & Taxes
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May 15, 2020
The Economics of Urban Light Rail: A Guide for Planners and Citizens
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May 2, 2020
US & TX 2019 Ridership Declines Predicted Transit’s Dim Future (Pre-COVID-19 Crash)
Thanks to a late-year surge in New York subway ridership, nationwide transit ridership in December 2019 was 3.0 percent greater than December 2018, and ridership for 2019 as a…
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April 22, 2020
12 Reasons to Vote NO on the City of Austin’s $7-10B Light Rail Plan
Many years ago, I worked for my parents who own a video production company. Because it is a family business, you inevitably end up wearing many hats and being the czar of many…
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April 7, 2020
New, Expensive Transit and Density Do Not Boost Transit Ridership
Does spending a lot of money on transit improvements boost transit ridership? Since 1992, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Houston have each spent about ten times as much money on transit…
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April 4, 2020
Does Transit Capital Spending Boost Ridership?
Last year I wrote about why booking too far in advance can be dangerous for your business, and this concept of margin so eloquently captures what I had recognized had been my…
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April 1, 2020
The Future of Transportation
Just the other day I happened to wake up early. That is unusual for an engineering student. After a long time I could witness the sunrise. I could feel the sun rays falling on my…
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March 25, 2020
The $1.4 Billion Transit Fund the U.S. Government Won’t Release
When you are alone for days or weeks at a time, you eventually become drawn to people. Talking to randos is the norm. After a long time I could witness the sunrise. I could feel…
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March 18, 2020
Transit Investments in an Age of Uncertainty
Just the other day I happened to wake up early. That is unusual for an engineering student. After a long time I could witness the sunrise. I could feel the sun rays falling on my…
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March 14, 2020
The Five Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture
Suburban sprawl and automobiles are rapidly acquiring a reputation as scourges of modern American society, say authors Ted Balaker and Sam Staley. But of all the myths created by…
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March 7, 2020
Top Reasons People Stop Using Public Transit
Nothing ruins a public transportation rider's day quite like waiting around for a train or bus that never shows up. Turns out that if it happens enough, riders will start giving…
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March 1, 2020
The proportion of the labor force working from home continues to grow
Expanding mass-transit systems is a pillar of green and “new urbanist” thinking, but with few exceptions, the idea of ever-larger numbers of people commuting into an urban core…
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March 1, 2020
Six Problems with Rail Transit and Six Myths of Rail Transit
Rail transit has long had a presence in American cities. The first commuter trains served the suburbs of Boston in 1838. The first successful electric streetcar opened in…
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February 23, 2020
Project Connect will Waste Billions of Taxpayer Dollars & Fail
Two important facts explain much about the crisis of confidence Dallas Area Rapid Transit confronts as it drives into its 35th year. Population in its 13-city service area keeps…
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