Transit Tangents

SEPTA's Accelerate Plan Explained

SEPTA just put real numbers and real ideas on the table, and it changes the conversation about Philadelphia public transportation overnight. We’re joined by Jay Arzu, exe

Colorado Voters Can Unlock Regional Rail This November

Colorado’s Front Range is growing fast, and I-25 is already paying the price. When the only real north-south artery turns into bumper-to-bumper gridlock at 9 a.m., “just

A New Plan for Passenger Rail in Central Texas... Again

A shiny new rail proposal just dropped for the Austin to San Antonio corridor and the details are going to spark arguments. The headline sounds great: “higher speed” pass

Illinois High-Speed Rail

A two-hour train ride from Chicago to St. Louis should sound normal. In the United States, it still sounds like science fiction, yet Illinois is quietly laying the ground

Transit Tour - Dresden, Germany

From a U.S. perspective, a city about the size of Tucson shouldn’t be able to pull off a dream transit system, but Dresden does. We set out to explore all public transit

Canada’s High-Speed Rail Moment

Canada has talked about high-speed rail for half a century, and we might finally be watching the moment it turns into steel in the ground. Alto, a new federally owned Cro

Transit Tour - Berlin

Berlin is one of those cities where you can feel history in the street layout and then confirm it by looking at the transit map. We start at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the mode

Utah's FrontRunner Closer To Federal Transit Funding

$1.2 billion doesn’t just buy track and trains. It buys time back in your day, the kind you lose when your “commuter rail” only shows up every 30 to 60 minutes and a sing

Self-Driving Cars Cannot Replace Good Transit

People keep telling us self-driving cars are going to make public transit irrelevant. So we pressure-test that claim using the stuff that actually decides whether a city

New York Is More Than Just NYC: The Empire Corridor Plan

New York dominates rail conversations in the country, yet the most realistic statewide upgrade might be hiding in plain sight. We’re talking about the Empire Corridor and

The Southern Rail Commission is Fighting for More Passenger Service in the South

Passenger rail in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama doesn’t get the spotlight often, but the story behind Amtrak’s new Mardi Gras service proves how much demand has bee

Next Stop: Fast Buses, Better Service - A chat with NYC's DOT Commissioner, Mike Flynn

New York City has the most famous subway in the United States, yet the bus is the workhorse that moves millions of people every single day. That’s why we sat down with Tr

Brightline: Is it a Success?

Brightline has been held up as proof that private passenger rail can work in the United States and right now it’s also a warning sign. We went to Florida to ride the Miam

A Miami Built For People: Transit Alliance Miami

Miami traffic isn’t just annoying; it’s expensive, unsafe, and deeply political. We’re joined by Cathy Dos Santos from Transit Alliance Miami, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advoc

Transit Tour - Miami

Miami’s transit network can feel like a highlight reel one minute and a facepalm the next. We start downtown at Government Center, hop the MetroMover, and then ride Metro

Is Austin's Project Connect Off the Rails?

Austin’s Project Connect is getting dragged in the headlines as “off the rails” and “one of the most expensive light rail projects in the country,” so we slow down and fa

Orlando’s Star Plan: A Discussion with Sunrise Movement Orlando

Orlando isn’t short on pavement, but it is short on fast, reliable public transportation and the cost shows up everywhere: rent, commute times, missed opportunities, and

California Bullet Buses

A 140 mph bus on California freeways sounds like a joke you would see in your news feed, until you realize Caltrans is seriously studying it. We dig into the “bullet bus”

Transit Tour - Orlando

What happens when you try to live in the real Orlando without a car? We spend a full day riding Lynx buses from the airport to downtown, up to Winter Park, back through t

The St. Pete SunRunner

A beach trip shouldn’t require a car, so we put St. Petersburg’s Sunrunner Bus Rapid Transit to the test the only way that counts: we rode it, timed it, transferred on it