A new website shows you exactly where you can go in under 30 minutes using mass transit.

American Airlines is regretting their decision to sell lifetime unlimited flight passes in the 1980's.

Year after year, Americans are driving less, young people are waiting longer to get their license, and more people are relying on mass transit. When will policymakers notice?

The neighborhood that's home to Seattle's first modern streetcar line is growing fast, and investor Paul Allen wants the ability to build taller buildings.

One Seattle journalist explains why he's happy an existing bridge was tolled.

Maybe the problem with "texting and driving" isn't the texting part.

The editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer are either clueless and out-of-touch with reality or actually attempting to start a modern day Red Scare by publishing this mindless letter-to-the-editor.

Let's hold politicians accountable for their claims -- "Ohio's smoking ban will hurt businesses" or "the Fountain Square renovation will be a boondoggle -- that are proven wrong.

"Mass transit is underfinanced; after all, Mercedes-Benzes and private jets are much more practical, no?"

One of the nation's most conservative cities builds one of the best transit systems completed in recent times.

Don't believe there is a massive amount of development potential in the land surround rail lines? Hong Kong's transit system is rolling in profit because they develop this land themselves.

"If the national office of the NAACP had any idea what Chris Smitherman is doing to their brand here in Cincinnati, they would’ve shown him the door years ago."

Cincinnati's high walkability is exactly why rail transit would be a prefect match for the city.

StreetsBlog covers the latest anti-streetcar measures in Cincinnati

The baby boomer generation built their entire lives around the concept of being able to drive for everything... so what happens when they can't drive any more?

"These myths about our car-dependent transportation system, and the industries that benefit from it, too often go unquestioned by journalists and opinion leaders. Advocates for transportation equity and for a modern transportation system must challenge these assumptions."

The language is generic, but it's good to see this many senators agree that funding mass transit is essential.

"While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars."

"First of all, most Americans seem to think that there isn't much propaganda here, think that they can spot it when it does appear, and quickly dismiss anything they don't agree with as 'bias'. It never occurs to them that what they perceive to be 'common sense' is actually a pile of concocted junk."

Why spend $3 billion on another new bridge when we could give people inventives to carpool or take transit?

"Businesses are beginning to recognize that many employees care less about living in sprawling estates and more about living in diverse areas with restaurants and entertainment within walking distance."

“'We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that [TSA agents] aren’t allowed to come into our business,' she says. 'We have the right to refuse service to anyone.'”

Even in 1938, we knew that the Interstate Highway System could never support itself financially.

"UBS is having buyer’s remorse. It turns out that a suburban location has become a liability in recruiting the best and brightest young bankers, who want to live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, not in Stamford, Conn., which is about 35 miles northeast of Midtown. The firm has also discovered that it would be better to be closer to major clients in the city."

Good information on Cincinnati Metro's funding situation, courtesy of Jake Mecklenborg.

Unfortunately, this is not yet available in Cincinnati.

So, when it comes to roads, public officials are allowed to throw around the phrase "if you build it, they will come" (no joke--this exact phrase was actually used), and the Enquirer will make no attempt to question it. But when it comes to transit...

Cincinnati (and most US cities) have a long way to go in terns of bike infrastructure.