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Is a Parking-Free Future Possible?
Lauren Goode: Do you mean you personally or the collective you? Gideon Lichfield: I mean, it’s always about me, isn’t…
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Ford Jump Starts Its Attempt to Revive Detroit
For almost two decades after it opened in 1913, Michigan’s Central Station was a major stop on the nation’s interurban…
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Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco
The bus was stuck. San Francisco’s eastbound 54 Felton line was heading up a narrow residential street when a white…
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The Case for Making Public Transit Free Everywhere
But the rush for free or heavily-discounted tickets can have the opposite effect. In Germany, the first long weekend of…
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Public Transit Systems Refocus on Their Core Riders
When the pandemic hit the US in March 2020, public health officials told people to stay home. But many couldn’t.…
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The Infrastructure Bill: 5 Key Takeaways
After months of haggling, the House of Representatives on Friday evening passed a major federal infrastructure bill that promises to…
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Oregon’s Buckled Roads and Melted Cables Are Warning Signs
This week, trapped under a stalled mountain of warm air called a heat dome, the Pacific Northwest got a taste…
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Transit Agencies Are Trying Everything to Lure You Back
Last week in Washington, DC, the board of the Metropolitan Area Transit Authority did something almost unheard of: It offered…
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The Pandemic Put an End to Rush Hour. What Happens Now?
Before everything got weird and terrible, there were these things called rush hours. Between, say, 6 am and 10 am,…
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Biden Wants You Out of Your Car and on the Train
The US is car country. Its 4.1-million-mile road network is the world’s most expansive. It has more motor vehicles per…
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