public transit

Kingston offered free bus rides on earth day, but does anyone care? The bus system in Kingston sucks!

Gavin Hudson gives us a glimpse of some of the world's most interesting public transit options. Upside down monorail? Sign me up.

In addition to polluting our air, contributing to global warming, being unsafe, requiring a huge infrastructure of pavement, highways, and "free" parking, and making us all generally less happy, cars just take up too much damned room!

Most of us never question our decision to buy and drive cars because we identify cars with our culture. “Driving is what people do.” That’s been the unspoken motto of the last handful of generations and it’s the lesson we’re teaching our children.

The Green Grandma feels challenged to consider what has been lost: cheap gas, green meadows, great places, and her innocence. She experiments with mass transit in a community not exactly noted for its rapid transit - in a metropolitan region tied with Los Angeles for sprawl and highway gridlock, she takes the bus and gives it mixed reviews.

There's a lot of discussion these days regarding transit oriented development as a means of reducing car usage. Apparently, Portland's long running TOD friendly policies haven't yielded the results expected. The article doesn't identify the reasons why public transit hasn't taken off more but I'd like to hear what the possible reasons are.