by Sara Greenwald | May 12, 2019 | Blog Item, Uncategorized
London and Amsterdam phasing out diesel cars The first step in the program, to be implemented next year, is the banning of diesel cars built before 2005. In London, where congestion pricing has charged all drivers for entering a portion of the city center since 2003,...
by Sara Greenwald | May 3, 2019 | Blog Item, Uncategorized
Uber switches filing that lists transit as a competitor By Matt McFarland, CNN Business, Apr 26, 2019 Uber updated its S-1 filing on Friday ahead of its IPO and largely eliminated references to competing with public transportation. The move follows criticism from...
by Sara Greenwald | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog Item
But they’re not heading down it fast. “Eight new electric school buses will become part of the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, bus fleet at no additional cost to the district and will potentially be put into use for the upcoming 2019-20 school year. BUSD...
by Sara Greenwald | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog Item
A Marxist sounds off on the transportation dilemma. “Car dominance, public transit austerity, and the neoliberal political-economy within which both are embedded have fomented what Marx called idiocy, in its classical sense of privatized social isolation,” Dan writes...
by Sara Greenwald | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog Item
This article reports on research about the effect on ridership of making transit free, and concludes that it isn’t always a good idea, and goes on to review other ways cities enhance and nourish their transit systems. A few tidbits: In Dunkirk, population 100,000,...
