L.A. Spent $7,500 on a Prototype Bus Shade That Doesn't Shade Anything
The problem is that the La Sombrita shelters, even as a marginal solution, are laughably inadequate. It's hard to see how they improve on a bad status quo at all.
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The problem is that the La Sombrita shelters, even as a marginal solution, are laughably inadequate. It's hard to see how they improve on a bad status quo at all.
Twitter has been a daily dose of drama and upheaval ever since Elon Musk offered to pay over $40 billion to buy the social media platform. Media outlets and public transit agencies had been abandoning the social media platform—should planners?
Plans to fix Santa Fe’s broken bus system appear to be going nowhere
A nearly $40 million infusion of state funding for public transit and transit-oriented housing is good news for our community, says Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin. It will kick-start needed climate-friendly improvements, including a push to make our buses carbon-neutral and establish a “bus on shoulder” lane for Highway 1. Transit is the biggest cause of greenhouse gasses locally, so getting more people to ride buses and bikes is key. But we can’t be the national leader we want to be — on par with cities like Boulder and Portland — without even more money, he says. He suggest...
From this week’s Galway City Tribune – A “small number of people” are likely to be unhappy with the changes proposed to the city’s bus network, but the increased frequency and greater reach of routes should be greeted positively by the vast majority of passengers. That’s the view of the main creator of the draft […]