Mass Transit

Commuters in San Francisco will soon be able to surf the web while riding the bus. The city’s Muni bus system has partnered with Cisco Systems to launch an effort they call “the Connected Bus,” which gives passengers free wireless access while onboard. Buses will also offer touch-screen schedules and maps for tourists [...]

Tomorrow (March 4th) thousands of cyclists will gather in support of biking at the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. They’ll be throwing their collective weight behind Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and his National Bike Bill, which “recogniz[es] the importance of bicycling in transportation and recreation.”
The bill is co-sponsored by Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN), [...]

Redistricting is one method that American political parties use in an attempt to render “undesirable” votes powerless in our unnecessarily convoluted electoral college-based system. When Texas state republicans located the early-polling place more than seven miles from Prairie View A&M University, it appeared to be dirty politics as usual. Prairie View A&M, in Prairie View, [...]

Athens, Greece is notorious for its pro-motorist mentality and legislation. The city has the highest per-capita rate of car ownership in the European Union with about two million vehicles in the city and 450 cars registered for every 1,000 residents. Not coincidentally, Greece is also among the fattest countries in the EU.
The ratio of cars [...]