Transit

Mass transit systems in the United States are seeing more riders as fuel prices rise, but experts say most residents still have little choice but to drive.

The federal fund promoted as a solution for Canadian public transit’s funding crisis was slated to open this month. But after Ottawa folded it into a broader infrastructure pool, critics are concerned transit will be forced to compete against roads, hospitals, and sewers for a share of the pot.

High-speed rail connecting Toronto and Quebec City would be a boon to the economy and job creation, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday, defending his government's project as opposition to it continues to grow.

When did the practice of building several structures with shared community amenities first begin? University of Ottawa professor Christina Bouchard examines emerging trends in urban projects.

One year after New York City launched congestion pricing, initial findings point to millions fewer vehicles entering lower Manhattan, growing public transit use, and toll revenues nearing US$500 million for 2025.

An estimated 1,600 electric school buses were gradually being idled in the United States, after the investment group that bought out the assets of bankrupt Lion Electric told school districts it wouldn’t honour service warranties on the vehicles.

One month into New York City’s congestion pricing scheme earlier this year, key metrics were trending in the right direction but the city’s poorest borough feared exposure to yet more toxic air pollution as commercial trucks reroute to avoid the tolls.

A new report from Environmental Defence Canada challenges Ontario’s highway-heavy approach to congestion, arguing that projects such as the proposed Highway 413 will cost billions but do little to ease traffic in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

This week’s U.S. election results were “a repudiation of the idea that Americans don’t care about energy or climate and these are losing issues, which is what all of these pundits have been going on and on about for about nine months now,” said political scientist Leah Stokes. “That’s really...

Electric school bus repair services and advisors are taking steps to help out school districts that bought Lion Electric buses, after the “restructuring” company brought in to manage the bankrupt manufacturer’s business decided not to honour warranties on the vehicles Lion delivered in the United States.

An estimated 1,600 electric school buses are gradually being idled in the United States, after the investment group that bought out the assets of bankrupt Lion Electric told school districts it won’t honour service warranties on the vehicles.

A high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City “will very likely be a grossly expensive, less convenient, massively under-used white elephant,” writes veteran policy analyst Aaron Freeman.

Public transit advocates are calling Toronto’s approval of dedicated transit lanes on two of its busiest roads a win, after city council adopted the plan despite stiff opposition.

It's too late to try everything. This is what a strategic approach to climate change would look like, writes Corporate Knights Research Director Ralph Torrie.

“The untold story is that cities and local leaders really mobilized in a big way in Paris, but also in the decade since,” says Asif Nawaz Shah, co-author of a new report on how cities are slashing their per capita emissions faster than their national governments. “It’s where the action...