Automated buses are already operating in some communities, but they may be on an even slower road to widespread adoption than headline-grabbing driverless cars.
Transportation
Posted inHousing and Transportation
The Continuing Quest for a More Walkable Los Angeles
After decades of automobile dependency, many transportation planners, advocates, and residents are slowly coming around to new ideas about getting around.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Connecting Public Transit to Great Manufacturing Jobs
Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Amazon’s Race to the Bottom Puts Chicago Transit at Risk
Chicago’s massive Amazon HQ2 incentive package could hit the city’s transit budget hard.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Gateway To Nowhere on the Hudson
Donald Trump could well kill more funds for the construction of critical rail infrastructure projects—which doesn’t bode well for the Northeast.
Posted inWorking in America
Charlie and the MBTA
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s privatization initiative at greater Boston’s transit authority has realized short-term savings—but the cure is still adequate public investment.
Posted inWorking in America
The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars
L.A. voters have chosen to tax themselves to build a citywide rail system. Can rail also resurrect the city’s long-vanished middle class?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What States and Cities Can Do To Fight Climate Change
Today, the Prospect is posting Ben Adler’s long-form piece, which also appears in the spring issue of our print magazine, on how states and cities are moving ahead on policies that limit climate change, and what they’re doing to counter the Trump administration’s policies that will make climate change even more severe. As Ben points […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Charge Time: Electric Car Workers Accuse Tesla of Low Pay and Intimidation
Employees at the company’s factory in California are seeking to unionize through United Auto Workers.
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Uber: The Road Not Taken
Why Uber’s business model keeps bleeding money—and how it might yet right itself as a useful but less grandiose venture