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What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?
For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.
February 8, 2019
Congestion Pricing, Metro, and Why Project Acceleration Might Not Be Such a Great Thing
Why not use this Olympic opportunity to uplift L.A.'s bus systems?
December 7, 2018
Metro Embarks on (Another) Bus Rapid Transit Study
Why do bus riders get studies - while drivers and rail riders get plans and projects?
October 29, 2018
SGV Connect 24: Double Decker Buses and Open Space Funding
New podcast episode explores Foothill Transit's planned double-decker electric buses and funding for SGV parks and open space.
August 9, 2018
How Can Metro and Cities Make Bus-Only Lanes Effective?
Phil Washington called for more enforcement to get scofflaw drivers out of bus-only lanes, but sometimes enforcement erroneously targets bicyclists. What works?
June 29, 2018
Eyes on the Bus: All-Door Boarding Coming to Vermont Rapid Bus Line this Month
All-door boarding appears to be coming to the Vermont Rapid bus next week. Why is such a an important inexpensive improvement taking so long?
June 14, 2018
New Video Explains UCLA Study on Transit Ridership Decline
A new video shows UCLA research on why transit has declined, and what can be done to bring it back.
June 7, 2018
Metro Planning Vermont Avenue Bus Rapid Transit
Metro study looks to spend a half million dollars probably to implement bus-only lanes similar to Wilshire Boulevard
May 9, 2018
Transit Lessons from Shanghai
If we fail to grasp the principle of point-to-point flexibility in transit planning, we will be forever baffled as to why transit continues to lose ridership.
May 2, 2018
New UCLA Study Examines Transit Ridership Decline, Blames Increased Car Ownership
Southern California transit ridership has declined since 2007. A UCLA study factors causing it, attributing car ownership increases as a major factor.
February 1, 2018