The Special Vintage train made it’s last Holiday run on December 18, 2016. The Nostalgia train ran from 2nd Avenue in the lower East side of Manhattan to Queens Plaza.
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NYC: Jazz on the Nostalgia Train
Friday, December 23rd, 2016Behind the Scenes of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s People Mover System
Thursday, December 15th, 2016
Written by David Parker Brown, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Airline Reporter The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) has been my home airport most of my life. I have seen the many changes over the years and I am proud to call it mine. Growing up, I lived in Oak Harbor, WA (about 90min northwest of Seattle) […]
View this complete post...Streetfilms & Streetsblog: The First Ten Years
Monday, November 28th, 2016
This film showcases only a small portion of the work that thousands of volunteers and advocates have put in but begins its tale with the NYC Streets Renaissance, a synergy of advocacy groups that banded together in 2005 to try to rally people and tell them the public space outside could change and that there were best practices all over the world to admire.
View this complete post...Share Your Transportation Story: Wynton Marsalis
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sits down for a conversation with jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Marsalis shares stories about streetcar rides with his great-uncle in 1960s New Orleans, the significance of trains in American mythology, and how the sounds of transportation continue to inspire his music today.
View this complete post...2016 Election Transit Scorecard
Friday, November 11th, 2016
32 communities holding transit ballot measures, $200 billion proposed across all ballot measures
View this complete post...People Near Transit: Improving Accessibility and Rapid Transit Coverage in Large Cities
Monday, October 17th, 2016
This study examines a building block of overall transit accessibility: how close rapid transit is to the residents of a city. Residents of large cities need to have rapid transit options located close to where they live so they can access opportunities without using a car. Measuring the number of residents in a city or metropolitan area who are covered by rapid transit is an important barometer for the efficacy and equity of a region’s transportation infrastructure. To account for differences in city size, PNT has been calculated as “percent of population living near rapid transit.”
View this complete post...2016 Report Card for Tennessee’s Infrastructure
Monday, October 10th, 2016
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE) TENNESSEE CHAPTER Executive Summary Tennessee, the “Volunteer State,” the “Country Music Capital of the World,” boasts the official slogan, “Tennessee – America at Its Best.” Already, Tennessee has been named “Best place to move to.” What would it take for Tennessee to be known as the “Home of America’s […]
View this complete post...Transit Trends Episode 7: Uber and Lyft Leave Austin, one of America’s Biggest Tech Cities
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
Uber and Lyft left Austin in May 2016 after voters decided to implement stricter operational guidelines for transportation networking companies (TNCs). Soon a flood of new TNCs including RideAustin, Fare, Fasten, GetMe and even a Facebook group called Arcade City with 40,000+ members launched. Yellow Cab soon launched an app and already existing, LUXE, an app that sends someone to valet your car from anywhere downtown, gained popularity.
View this complete post...Streetfilms: NYC Buses – Time for a Turnaround
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Transit advocates knew something was wrong when they observed declining bus system ridership in spite of increasing population, a growing economy, and record-high subway ridership. To figure out what could be done about it, they spoke to industry experts and researched successful efforts in peer cities to identify common sense solutions to NYC’s bus problems. This research is summarized in their report “Turnaround: Fixing New York City’s Buses”.
View this complete post...Livable Transit Corridors: Methods, Metrics, and Strategies
Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
While livability has received increasing attention in planning and policy circles recently, agreement as to how to define, measure, and create it has been elusive. This is especially true in terms of the livability benefits of transit investments. While livability definitions tend to boil livability down to serving diverse people with diverse opportunities (RITA Office of Research, Development, and Technology 2011), most have not been specific enough to measure it consistently and implement it effectively. Furthermore, getting specific about livability—particularly when focusing on the livability benefits of transit-supportive investments—may cause those who do not care for transit to dismiss it.
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