I thought it would be fun to find out: how much money did I save in 2025 by cycling and using transit compared to using a car as my primary way of getting around?
Transit push in Montreal could generate more GDP than vehicular focus: study - Montreal | Globalnews.ca
A new study released by the Metropolitan Community of Montreal (MMC) finds the economic benefits of public transit are far greater than personal automobiles.
Paying for driving
Drivers in the US pay about half of what their driving costs. The rest comes to $2.15 trillion a year.
Enjoying free train rides? Here’s what it would cost to make it permanent
Would it make more sense to make public transport free forever, or spend the money brought in by fares on improving services?
Urban congestion relief experiments through routing-app interventions
Traffic congestion remains a persistent challenge for urban mobility, increasing travel delays and elevating CO2 emissions. The widespread use of smartphones and GPS navigation creates new opportunities to mitigate congestion through routing optimizations in apps, yet real-world evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions is limited. Here we report large-scale empirical experiments evaluating routing-based traffic interventions on ~100 highly congested road segments across 10 major US cities. By rerouting a small share of Google Maps trips from targeted congested highway and arterial segments to less congested alternatives of equivalent road-classes with comparable travel times, we observe a city-average 2% increase in vehicle speeds on the intervened segments, along with improved travel times 0.7% and potential annual reductions exceeding 1,000 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions per city in the majority of studied locations. These findings provide evidence that marginal routing interventions involving a small proportion of vehicles can measurably enhance overall road network efficiency, offering a practical pathway to easing congestion and advancing urban sustainability.
Cycling Toward a Cooler Toronto | The Power of Bike Lanes
Easier. Safer. More Affordable.
This Budget provides real help, right now – and delivers new solutions to make life easier, safer and more affordable.
Modemix — Biking to transit, made effortless.
Biking to transit, made effortlessly simple. Turn your 20-minute walk into a 5-minute ride.
Why stop at $30? Greens say lets make public transport permanently free | The Australian Greens
The Victorian Greens say Labor's election promise to cap public transport fares at $30 a week for two years is an admission that Victorians are paying too much to get around, but falls well short of the permanent cost-of-living relief people need.
Hiking by Transit
Transit-accessible hikes, parks, and trailheads across California.
Why We Can’t Figure Out Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive
And why it’s going to be so expensive to find an answer.
A Year, Car-free, with a Brompton Bicycle | Offprint
Reflecting on a year of car-free living in the San Francisco Peninsula with a Brompton Bicycle
ale, today › One year of cargo biking
Some random notes from my first year with an electric cargo bike, and why you should (maybe) get one
ale, today › One year of cargo biking
Some random notes from my first year with an electric cargo bike, and why you should (maybe) get one
Digging Out of a Very Deep Hole: Saving Billions on 125th Street — Effective Transit Alliance New York
A 125 St subway should be a slam dunk. But at $7.7B and with stations more than 100 ft underground, it would be the most expensive subway in the world, and cost riders more than 5 minutes every trip before ever stepping on a train. By using international best practices & building more shallowly,
Bike Routes to Look Forward To | Offprint
A hopeful view toward the future of biking in the Bay
Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.
The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated.
