TransitCenter

"Disabled New Yorkers deserve to be gainfully employed, able to show up to work on time, and use the same mass transit as their peers without fear for their safety or health. For too many disabled people in New York City, personal daily mobility is far too difficult and expensive. Barriers to access discourage social, civic, and economic participation. Of course, Hochul does not think of these New Yorkers when she talks about affordability. They’re out of sight and out of mind, stuck in traffic, and thanks to her impulsive choice, stuck in the past." https://lnkd.in/gRpmYQDh

"Urban land use reform, affordable housing, reliable transit, and safe streets are now top-priority, must-have interventions for climate change. We have to end the era of car-powered suburban sprawl, and make it legal — and less expensive — to build housing in our urban cores, or in the central business districts of suburban areas, near jobs, transit, and services. " https://lnkd.in/ej9D858t

"As NY has backpedaled on congestion pricing, it has made no progress on nearly half of its other transit-related climate goals." To turn things around, we need a movement of people from Buffalo to the Bronx demanding a change to how the state funds and plans transportation projects. https://lnkd.in/eAq5fbbG

"Reducing the number of people who are on the road is a critical near-term strategy to reduce pollution. It’s a necessary complement to this long-term electrification strategy. And while we unfortunately do not have a clean vehicle switch to flip, in New York there is now very literally a switch called congestion pricing that the governor could flip immediately and significantly reduce climate pollution in the state." - Zak Accuardi https://lnkd.in/eXa89DJf

"Hawai’i youth have successfully pushed their state DOT to agree decarbonize the transportation network by making it less car-centric — and the legal group behind the settlement says that the win could be a "blueprint" for other states who fail to curb their top source of greenhouse gases." Who's next? https://lnkd.in/gfbedtDY

Very excited that Version 2.0 of the TransitCenter Transportation Equity Dashboard (TED) is released! You can view it at https://lnkd.in/gQkxaUx2 TED tracks how well transit connects people to opportunities in the seven cities with the highest transit ridership in the US: New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Version 2.0 features a number of methodological updates and ease-of-use improvements. We made it easier to view and compare datasets (see video), load data faster, and focused on more urbanized areas around these seven regions. I am so proud to have seen this project through from the very first download of a transit schedule to the last step of publication on the internet. Big thanks to Mary Buchanan, AICP and everyone at TransitCenter for championing this project and making it a reality!

"Project 2025...calls for the elimination of funding for the FTA’s core programs, which provide critical funds to local transit authorities for essential maintenance work." https://lnkd.in/eNFEvPmD

"Last week the NYC-based public transportation advocacy organization TransitCenter put out an updated version of its Transportation Equity Dashboard. This initiative measures how effectively bus and train systems in seven transit-friendly large U.S. cities, including Chicago, connect residents to jobs, education, retail, healthcare, and other amenities. It covers public transportation data from early 2020 to early 2024, so it shows how the different metro areas have fared during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It also looks at which transit systems are having success in closing longtime service inequities, and which are not." https://lnkd.in/eax5yX6Y

This past legislative session, Michigan got close to securing enough funding to transform transit, but a bill that would allocate $2 billion in transit investment over the next decade failed to pass. Fortunately, local transit advocates remain undeterred and will try again in the fall. Reminder: Transit is a public service that benefits everyone, even people who never ride it! But it needs much, much more funding to fulfill its potential as a driver of social mobility and emissions reduction. https://lnkd.in/gtMrVtYu

Transit is an essential public service that benefits everyone, even people who never ride it. It deserves stable, ongoing funding, especially for operations! ttps://https://lnkd.in/emPPr_iS