The Federal Transit Administration released its annual report on new transit projects to fund.
The report recommends a total of just $1.2 b for existing & new projects, a massive reduction from previous years. The federal role in funding new transit projects is being decimated.
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
(Published July 2025)
we're not just "not even trying." we're doubling down on widening freeways, cutting transit, and doing fuck all to expedite the transition to electric vehicles. decades of squandered opportunity to advance policies that reduce emissions and also dramatically improve public health and quality of life
Construction on the Interstate Bridge Project take until at least 2045
Construction will likely take even longer as packages are “sequenced” and delayed because adequate funding for the full $17.7B cost hasn’t been identified
- @cityobservatory.bsky.social
cityobservatory.org/interstate-b...
Photo of informational signs taped up at a bus stop
Informational signs on proposed service cuts to line 96. It is stated that this group of riders has been able to advocate for preserving this line for at least 3 years.
Bus riders in Tualatin have posted informational signs telling others about impacts of proposed service cuts. Commute time increasing from 20-25 minutes, to an hour.
How can this be acceptable for transit, not not drivers? Imagine the pushback from cutting "car service" on I-5.
map of the IBR project, bridge circle in red
just cooked up with the idea to do a bridge replacement project and this is as affordable as i could make it (bridge circled in red)
So, Brendan, Why is the Millennium Line Bad?
#H1-KEY shares heartwarming New Year's wishes in teaser for new winter song
[💿]
CHUU The First Album [XO, My Cyberlove]
🎧2026.01.07 6PM (KST)
'XO, My Cyberlove' MV Teaser
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C03a...
💙CYBERLOVE ARCHIVES
#CHUU #츄 #XOMyCyberlove
you ever notice how transit cuts in the biggest city in the state aren’t talked about as a political risk for the governor, despite being vastly worse for transit riders than an unnoticeable gas tax increase is for drivers?
Billions of dollars to ODOT for continued endless polluting freeway expansions, while TriMet and other transit agencies across the state prepare for massive service cuts.
A profound public policy failure of Oregon government. #orpol #orleg
This lays at the feet of the state legislature. This is their fault for not doing the job we elected them to do.
2026, the year that…
ORCA gets a three-day pass and accepts open payments
Amtrak Cascades launches new trainsets
The Link 2 Line is extended to provide cross-lake service, mainline service (doubling frequency), and add two new stations
Pinehurst’s station opens
Link gets some fare gates
"""Bus rapid transit""" (service every half hour)
There is no better car advertisement than spending 30 minutes waiting on a bus.
wishing the governor the best of luck pitching i-5 snowplows and transit cuts to voters while having zero new street upgrades or mobility options to campaign on
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
Listening to Bruce Harrell on the campaign trail, you'd never know that traffic fatalities in Seattle have actually increased during his term as whole and that last year was the deadliest year on city roads in decades.
3 days left to demand tighter regulation of the oil storage facility in northwest Portland
i have a handful of theories as to why, but none of them fully explain why we've managed to get all on the same page and fully radicalized on how expensive housing has become but the closest anyone gets to noticing transportation is also expensive is "gas prices are too damn high"
It is almost like Hanoi, a city with over 8 million residents, needs a true city spanning metro system. Not two disconnected metro lines.
Embrace cà phê urbanism.
Did my grad school thesis on the Lloyd District in Portland in 2013, the gaping non-place in the middle of miles of walkable/bikeable places that make up PDX.
Definitely went with the "it's not rocket science" approach re: the urbanism. Only "flair" was embracing Portland's park block precedent...
These victories matter more than ever.
“Metro reinstates two LA bus drivers who vowed to protect riders from ICE
An LA County Supervisor and thousands of residents spoke out in support of the bus operators, who now have a 60-day unpaid suspension from their jobs”
Los Angeles' A Line light rail has been extended today further to the east, with the extension running from Azusa to Pomona, with stops in Glendora, San Dimas, & La Verne.
The A line, from Long Beach to Pomona, is 57.6 miles long, the longest light rail line in the world, with a 2h11 trip time.
Heejin Instagram post
I like Vietnam ♡
Subscribers asked for it, here are some of my thoughts on an article about the CRH system by an 85 year old Chinese economic geographer, 陆大道. I'll be blunt, people who cite 陆大道's article at face value against the concept of HSR don't know anything about transport planning.
SDOT’s goal is to shift driving trips to transit. Why do their traffic studies not consider that people might consider taking the bus?
