“Effective Sunday, June 14, 2009, more than 60 bus routes will be adjusted” (Miami-Dade transit)
Lee County is trying to spend its stimulus money as fast as possible. In what seems to be a pattern across the country, transit is losing out to roads mostly because of faulty federal funding rules.
Congress has agreed to allow transit [...]
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News Roundup
The Week in Review…
Lots went on this week in transit and I for one am exhausted. I know we have been silent these past few weeks on what has been happening, and speaking for myself, I didn’t have anything new to add to the discussion that I had not already said before. MDT is having problems, ridership is [...]
The week in transit
A lot happened this week behind the scenes and between the lines. Here is a review:
Kudos to this editorial today from El Nuevo Herald columnist Daniel Shoer Roth. I think he did an excellent job in highlighting how mismanaged our transit system is. Accountability goes out the window when ten different departments and municipalities are [...]
Transitography 41: Freiburg Straßenbahn
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Stadtbahn im Schnee, originally uploaded by Fußgänger.
The Freiburg Straßenbahn line 4 running in an early October snowfall in southern Germany.
Freiburg, a town of just over 200,000 boasts 4 tram lines and [...]
People Mover Systems: The Jacksonville Skyway
I had the opportunity this past weekend to finally ride one the nation’s three downtown fully automated people mover systems in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville skyway, is the most recently completed of the three automated systems (the others being in Miami and Detroit) opening up fully to the public in November of 2000. Like [...]
