This is a big moment for transportation reform. Today at the polls, voters will re-shape Congress just as the Obama administration is getting ready to make its push for infrastructure investment. In key states — including Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, and Tennessee — governor races will influence the future of passenger rail, […]

Remember how the Jetsons promised us flying cars? Well, futuristic visions of car travel have a way of falling short of the wild expectations. Jarret Walker at Human Transit wonders if some of the grand visions coming from driverless car prognosticators might be similarly science-fiction-esque. He takes particular issue with author Richard Gilbert, who speculates in […]

There’s a lot going on around the Streetsblog Network today. From A Place of Sense, in Indianapolis, comes a post about that city’s parking policies. A developer there, seeking to renovate an abandoned apartment building in an area with many parking lots, requested a variance from the city’s requirement that developments provide their own off-street […]