Author: Stephen Fesler

Sunday Video: How Elevated Rail Makes Cities Better

In North America, modern rail transit usually avoids conventional elevated lines in dense cities and even suburbs. Reece Martin of RMTransit discusses what makes elevated rail so good.

Sunday Video: Should Cities Ban Drive-Thrus?

Dave Amos of City Beautiful discusses drive-thru businesses and how they are evolving to create more vehicle throughput. As part of this, Amos discusses...

Sunday Video: What About P3s for Transit?

Public private partnerships have become trendy in infrastructure projects, particularly for transportation. Reece Martin of RMTransit dives into the pros and cons of this...

Sunday Video: Can North America Do Train Station Right?

Ray Delahanty of CityNerd ranks principal train stations across the United States and Canada for population catchment in proximity to them. Seattle makes the...

Sunday Video: What’s Good And Bad About Amtrak and Via Rail?

Riding the rails from New York City to Toronto and then eventually onward to London, Ontario, Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes details his...

Sunday Video: San Francisco’s New Transit Hub Is Still Underutilized

San Francisco has an extravagant transit center delivered just before the pandemic. Right now, it mostly serves a handful of bus routes, but could...

Sunday Video: Why Is Shibuya So Great?

Shibuya, Tokyo is world famous for it's massive at-grade pedestrian scramble crossing. In a way, it's a self-popularlized space. But there's a lot more...

Op-Ed: Sound Transit Should Rethink Light Rail Extensions Beset with Overruns

Sound Transit may be headed for another round of light rail project delays due to poor decision-making, and it needs to be open to overhauling the ST3 program.