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View our first PenTrans webinar with Gary Toth!

Will place-based thinking be the future of transportation?

Can shifting focus to community building (or placemaking) not only better benefit our communities but save money and speed up project delivery?

In this webinar, we explore how framing transportation solutions within a place and community context can better serve communities and transportation agencies.

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This simple 17-second video makes an incredibly compelling case for bus-only lanes Three buses in less than half a minute.

For Philly’s poor commuters, SEPTA fare ranks among most expensive in U.S. cities SEPTA’s transfer fees and the distribution of jobs in the region combine to make commuting by public transit more expensive in Philadelphia for the people who can least afford it, a new Pew study finds.

Why Philly’s traffic lights still aren’t synchronized — and won’t be anytime soon Many of the traffic signals that have been modernized still don’t work properly, thanks to malfunctions that can take more than a year to repair.

What’s the status of Pittsburgh’s Bus Rapid Transit line? Pittsburgh’s next big public transit project on the horizon is the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line from Downtown to Oakland and beyond. The project aims…

More Americans have died in car crashes since 2000 than in both World Wars As the opioid crisis takes center stage — almost 100,000 deaths in six years — 190,000 people were killed by speeding, drunk or distracted drivers in that time.

Road Warrior: Officials tested how many drivers respected pedestrians in crosswalks in Bethlehem. The results weren’t good. 20 of 37 drivers — 54% — failed to yield to a pedestrian who was already in the middle of the road during a test on Bethlehem’s West Broad Street.

Better Bike Infrastructure Expands Economic Opportunity: Report In cities with good bike infrastructure, residents can access thousands of additional jobs on two wheels, a new study finds.

Is Uber and Lyft the Future of Transit? Not So Fast Cities that turn to technology companies to save their transit systems are bound to be disappointed by the outcome.

Back to the burbs: given no other choice | Smart Growth America The popular narrative about younger generations aging and leaving urban centers is presented as inevitable. But most news stories fail to examine why many younger people are taking up residence in suburbia…

‘What you’re doing today is already history,’ says transit leader from Pittsburgh Port Authority CEO cautions cities like Omaha about focusing funding on streets over other transportation options.

Baby Steps on Climate Responsibility in New Federal Transportation Bill A lot more money for highways. A little more money for bikes and bridge repair. But what else is in the new Transportation bill moving through Congress?

America’s “Neglected” Infrastructure Once again, the nfrastructure Cult’s narrative was picked up and magnified by the old media. This past weekend, 60 Minutes (yes, that is still a show) ran a piece called Falling Apart: America’s Neglected Infrastructure. It contained all of the Cult’s usual…

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SEPTA gets bold with new transit map Officials say the goal is to simplify travel planning for riders. “Our hope, really, is that they are intuitive enough that someone who’s not very familiar with the network can show…

Mayors Seek Transit Funds To Fight Climate Change (And What’s Happening in This Picture) A coalition of mayors wants Congress to declare a Marshall Plan against climate change by spending on mass transit to curb air pollution in their cities. The mayors of Atlanta, Honolulu, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, and Portland, Ore….

Pittsburgh Reveals the Downside of Self-Driving Cars Wider inequality. More sprawl. Worse transit. Those are some of the outcomes we could see from self-driving cars in cities, according to a Pittsburgh-based transit advocacy group.

Funding cuts jeopardize Amtrak service, PennDOT official says The state’s Amtrak passenger rail service will be impacted when the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s $450 million annual payment to PennDOT plunges by $400 million …

The Port Authority aims to improve more than 7,000 bus stops — and make them safer There are more than 7,000 bus stops in the Pittsburgh region, some nicer –and much safer — than others. The Port Authority of Allegheny County plans to study …

New York City to App-Cab Giants: Cut Empty Cruising or Pay the Price If they don’t, “there will be very severe penalties,” said Deputy Mayor for Operations Laura Anglin.

Maryland Is In A Huge Transit Hole Years of underfunding transit in the Old Line State has left the Maryland Transit Administration $2-billion short of the $5.7 billion needed to run its bus and rail system over the next decade.

Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery closing means great opportunities for Philadelphia | Opinion The plant’s closing is an economic gut-punch to the city and region today, but it’s also a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us to think about what kind of city we want Philadelphia to become.

Are gentrification’s impacts overstated? This study says yes A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia finds little evidence to support the conventional understanding of gentrification as a massively disruptive influence on the well-being of lower-income city…

Behind the scenes and into the past at 30th Street Station Philadelphia’s train station, recently renamed the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, has meaning for this city far beyond the long-defunct railroad company it was built to glorify.

Making it Easier to Get to Transit via Walking, Bicycling Encouraging people to opt for a “first-mile/last-mile” connection via active, zero emission modes requires integration of policies, plans, designs, and funding

Automobile Supremacy Is Written Into the Law The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.

Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake? For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.

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The City of Philadelphia recently published a transportation strategic plan. Chris Puchalsky, Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives at the Office of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, spoke with the PenTrans board last week about the Transit First goals that the mayor has set. We found the conversation very informative and wanted to share Chris’ presentation. You can also check out the full Connect plan.

2018 Peter Javsicas Multi-Modal Transportation Advocate Awards & Holiday Reception

The 2018 Peter Javsicas Multi-Modal Transportation Advocate Award and Holiday Reception is on December 4 at 5:00 and will honor Rep. John Taylor and Rep. Bill Keller.

Order your tickets now!

Invited speakers include Leslie Richards, Jennie Granger, Jeff Knueppel, Mike Carroll, Ken McClain and Barry Seymour.

Sponsorships are available at the $250, $500, and $1,000 level and include complementary tickets to the event. For details, contact Katie Carver at 215.592.4200.