In the first in a series on Los Angeles' traffic problems, Council member Wendy Greuel, the Director of L.A.'s County Regional Transit Planning, Rex Gephardt, and Executive Director of the Transit Coalition, Bart Reed, discuss the L.A. Bus Rapid Transit program as a crucial part of the larger LA...
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At the 2009 Rail-Volution conference in Boston, Streetfilms was able to grab a few moments with the political conservative, transit advocate, William Lind. Lind aims to provide "liberal transit advocates" the language to build bipartisan support for public transportation (okay, just rail) in te...
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Curitiba, Brazil first adopted its Master Plan in 1968. Since then, it has become a city well known for inventive urban planning and affordable (to the user and the city) public transportation. Curitiba’s Bus Rapid Transit system is the source of inspiration for many other cities including the T...
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Transportation Alternatives collected nearly 1,000 letters from Queens transit riders who oppose the looming MTA fare hikes and service cuts. In the letters, straphangers urged their state senators to approve a plan that uses bridge toll revenue to help fund transit. If you’re one of the 8 mill...
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Le Mobilien is Paris' version of what we know as a bus rapid transit system or a surface mass transport network. Paris has been doing “bus rapid transit” for decades, and after years of on-street operation and continuous fine-tuning they have now developed a system which they call the “Mobilien”...
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Who would have thought that one of the best Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in the U.S. would be in its most crowded, congested, sprawling city? Well check this out. It’s really fabulous. In October 2005, the Los Angeles County Metro Authority (or Metro) debuted a new 14-mile BRT system in the ...
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Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign recently took Streetfilms for a journey on the Bx12 Select Bus Service (SBS) instituted last year on Fordham Road in the Bronx. Travel time on the route has been cut by 20 percent thanks to the improvements, and commuters we s...
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Welcome to an innovative way of thinking about transit: ask your passengers to design routes, let them name them, and decide the frequency in which they operate. That’s what Boulder, Colorado does and they sure seem to have discovered the right way to make bus riding fun and enticing! B...
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Want to learn more about Bus Rapid Transit? Watch this video and let Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek show you how BRT works in Bogotá, Colombia. Take a gander and you’ll see an efficient, modern and — relatively speaking -- inexpensive way of moving 1.3 million people per day. In Bogo...
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2010 FORD TRANSIT CONNECT Glendale , AZ 623-842-8600 www.sandersonford.com Formore information on this vehicle and our full inventory, call Dave Tedder at 623-842-8600. Sanderson Ford 6400 N. 51 Ave Glendale , AZ 85301 You’ll love this 2010 Ford Transit Connect. This is a car you'll want to take...
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Moments after he delivered the keynote address to the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), Oregon’s Rep. Earl Blumenauer, head of the Congressional Bike Caucus, met with us for this exclusive one-on-one chat. Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Aaron Naparstek talks with the co...
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