By Hilary Reeves, Communications Director When the Metro Red Line opens on June 22, it will be the region’s first station-to-station Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line....
Archive for tag: Bus Rapid Transit
2012: A Big Year for Bus Rapid Transit in US Cities
By Aaron Isaacs, TLC member Recent TLC blogs have reported on a number of local highlights for transit in 2012. (Not to miss: Dave Van Hattum’s...
Twin Cities Transitways Update
By Dave Van Hattum, Senior Policy Advocate Four of the metro region’s most highly anticipated transitways—Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Bottineau, Gateway, and Southwest LRT—recently have crossed...
Expanding Options, Expanding Opportunity
By Dave Van Hattum, Senior Policy Advocate Housing and transportation, in that order, are typically a family’s largest expenditures. In both cases—because families and incomes vary substantially—one size,...
Challenges and Opportunity for the Bottineau Transitway
By Dave Van Hattum, Senior Policy Advocate Transit for Livable Communities (TLC) strongly supports every effort to build with all deliberate speed a 21st-century regional...
Update on the Gateway Corridor
From Dave Van Hattum, Senior Policy Advocate The Gateway Corridor, along I-94 between Saint Paul’s Union Depot and Minnesota’s eastern border, is being studied for...
Construction season—how projects get the green light
Funding for transit is much more precarious than funding for roads and bridges because transit relies to a significant degree on state general fund appropriations and General Obligation bonding – funding that needs to be allocated by the legislature each year.
Update – Transit Bonding this Session
While TLC strongly supports bonding that helps advance the build out of a regional transit system, we recognize the particular urgency of the Southwest bonding request this legislative session.
Los Angeles—Not Just for Drivers Anymore
When you think about transportation in the Los Angeles region do you think about cars idling on ten lane highways? While millions still do drive every day, more and more of LA’s 12 million residents are choosing from a growing number of transit options. With an aggressive plan for expansion funded by several voter-approved tax increases, transit options in LA on are track to grow dramatically.
2011 Transit Milestones from Other US Regions
From Barb Thoman, Executive Director While Congress again failed to pass a long range federal transportation funding bill in 2011, annual appropriations to transportation and...