Public transportation

Policy

The Streetcar Swindle

It's time to rethink America's retrograde love affair with trolley technology.

Samuel Scheib | 9.27.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Slate: L.A. Transit So Good It's Losing 8,000 Riders a Year

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.18.2012 3:22 PM

Policy

U.S. Taxpayers Get Gouged on Mass Transit Costs

We've been saying.

Reason Staff | 8.27.2012 8:30 PM

Policy

Chattanooga Doesn't Trust Adults to Peddle You Across a Bridge in Enormous Tricycles

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.23.2012 4:37 PM

Policy

Pittsburgh Public Transit Gets State Bailout

It's a train Pennsylvania taxpayers might wish they'd missed

Reason Staff | 8.22.2012 7:24 PM

Politics

Vegas Bullet Train Bets Big on Taxpayer $$$

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.16.2012 2:48 PM

Politics

Cracks Appear in California State Senate as High-Speed Rail Vote Approaches Station

Scott Shackford | 6.29.2012 6:51 PM

Politics

Did Gov. Brown Just Admit Defeat of High-Speed Rail Project? Don't Celebrate Yet.

Scott Shackford | 6.21.2012 6:54 PM

Politics

L.A. Expo Line Opens Two More Rail Stations; Ridership Still Very Low

Scott Shackford | 6.21.2012 4:15 PM

Politics

Good News: Public Transit Is About to Collapse

Calvin Thompson | 6.15.2012 3:37 PM

Politics

Brown Seeks Exemption from Environmental Suits Against Train That's Supposed to Help the Environment (But Won't)

Scott Shackford | 6.4.2012 6:24 PM

Politics

July 1: Do or Die for California High Speed Train Funding (Guess Which One We're Hoping for?)

Scott Shackford | 5.17.2012 1:59 PM

Politics

California High-Speed Rail: Highest Burn Rate Ever

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.14.2012 6:10 PM

Politics

Feds to California: Spend That Money You Don't Have on High-Speed Rail

Scott Shackford | 5.10.2012 8:19 PM

Politics

Trainspotters: Deriving Numbers by Counting "Nonsensical," "Intellectually Dishonest"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.8.2012 7:39 PM

Politics

New Light Rail Ridership Falls Short by More Than Half

L.A. Expo Line running almost empty with "brief" 30-minute delays.

Tim Cavanaugh and Scott Shackford | 5.5.2012 4:00 PM

Politics

New Video Reveals Bankruptcy of California High-Speed Rail

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

California's Public Transportation Sinkhole

Thanks to labor unions and big-government activists, transportation has become another form of social engineering.

Steven Greenhut | 4.13.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

NYT Debate: Is Smart Growth Good, Great or Terrific?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.9.2012 10:01 PM

Politics

Walkable Smart-Hub Hollywood Only Dead in Reality

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.30.2012 4:47 PM

Politics

Tolls, Not Taxes: How Americans Want to Fix Traffic Jams

Sharif Matar | 2.21.2012 4:32 PM

Politics

Why More People Should Ride Mass Transit

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.28.2012 6:59 PM

Politics

End of the Line for the Bullet Train

High-Speed Rail is Coasting to a Stop, and Not Just in California

Reason Staff | 1.19.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Obama Power Grab; N.Y. Times Green Jobs Lunacy; High Speed Fail, and More: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.4.2012 4:45 PM

Politics

Sixty Two Percent of Americans Prioritize Spending on Roads Over Public Transit

Emily Ekins | 1.4.2012 3:34 PM

Politics

Sixty Two Percent of Americans Prioritize Spending on Roads Over Public Transit

Emily Ekins | 1.4.2012 3:33 PM

Politics

Fifty Four Percent of Americans Say Traffic Congestion Is Getting Worse

Emily Ekins | 1.4.2012 11:53 AM

Politics

Fifty Four Percent of Americans Say Traffic Congestion Is Getting Worse

Emily Ekins | 1.4.2012 11:52 AM