After a week of confusion, regional council has set the record straight on Niagara Specialized Transit. The service, councillors heard Thursday, is for residents with a disability that prevents them from using conventional transit and proved to be enormously popular as it was expanded with ridership jumping to 30,000 from 12,000 rides. The surge also […]

The May 1 defeat of a Nashville ballot initiative to fund transit expansion sheds light on a national crusade to fight against public transit orchestrated by a familiar anti-transit foe – Americans for Prosperity. Backed by the Koch brothers, the group parachuted a team of conservative political hacks armed with voter data into Nashville to […]

Cincinnati isn’t a public transportation town. We like our cars, and our public transportation system has failed be efficient or attract riders. That makes Cincinnati Metro’s grim financial forecast — a $184 million budget gap — “depressing as hell,” according to one Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority trustee. An external audit presented to SORTA Tuesday offered no quick […]