For a BRT advocate, it was really exciting to wake up this morning to a front-page, above-the-fold article in the New York Times, with Transmilenio as the central picture. Reading Elisabeth Rosenthal’s article, though, I …

Next American City has started a series of stories on local air quality, which is an incredibly important issue. This first post analyzes this years “State of the Air” report, put out by the …

UPDATE: BeyondDC informs me by e-mail that, although you wouldn’t know it, this vote implies at the very least that Maryland has a strong preference for light rail, as that’s what the state asked the …

Two stories you need to know about sustainable transportation in the United States this week:
Vehicle Emission Rules to Tighten
Washington Post
May 19, 2009
The Obama administration today plans to propose tough standards for tailpipe emissions from new …

In all likelihood corn from fields like this one in Iowa will be used to fuel American cars. Photo by Homemade.
In the last few months, high-profile senators like Obama, Clinton, Kerry, McCain, and Lieberman …