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A Day Without Auto Rickshaws: Inconvenience, Intimidation and Corruption
April 7, 2010 – 10:05 am | 5 Comments

A Day Without Auto Rickshaws: Inconvenience, Intimidation and Corruption

An estimated 55,000 auto rickshaw drivers went on strike in Delhi last week, complicating commutes by putting extra pressure on other modes of public transit. The strike was led by auto rickshaw drivers’ unions, …

Boosting Property Values Near BRT
April 6, 2010 – 3:52 pm | 11 Comments

Boosting Property Values Near BRT

Many transit advocates agree that bus rapid transit (BRT) can provide high-quality, efficient transportation at a fraction of the cost of rail. However, a common concern about BRT is that routes are not as …

Build a Better Burb
April 6, 2010 – 10:39 am | 6 Comments

Build a Better Burb

There has been a crisis of imagination, and your bold new ideas are urgently needed. There should be no preconceptions about what is or is not possible. What would you do on these …

Guangzhou’s BRT: Revolutionizing Perceptions of Bus Travel in China
April 1, 2010 – 11:46 am | 21 Comments

Guangzhou’s BRT: Revolutionizing Perceptions of Bus Travel in China

In the past several weeks, we’ve covered some ground-breaking bus rapid transit (BRT) systems on TheCityFix, including Ahmedabad’s Janmarg, the first full-featured BRT in India, and Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya, which will eventually be the first …

Q&A: Three Years of Transantiago
March 26, 2010 – 4:04 pm | 3 Comments

Q&A: Three Years of Transantiago

Transantiago, the public transport system in Santiago, Chile that combines bus rapid transit (BRT), feeder bus lines and a metro system, celebrated its third birthday last month. You may remember the news coverage from …

C’mon N’ Ride It: A Tweetup Test Ride for Johannesburg’s High Speed Rail
March 23, 2010 – 12:12 pm | 4 Comments

C’mon N’ Ride It: A Tweetup Test Ride for Johannesburg’s High Speed Rail

South African transportation officials are taking advantage of social media to build buzz around the new Gautrain Rapid Rail Link being built in the Johannesburg metro region.
About 200 Twitter followers and more than 2,700 Facebook …

More on Ahmedabad’s Janmarg BRT: Accessibility and Signage
March 23, 2010 – 11:59 am | 6 Comments

More on Ahmedabad’s Janmarg BRT: Accessibility and Signage

Last week, Prajna Rao, a transport planner at the Centre for Sustainable Transport in India (a member of the EMBARQ Network, which produces this blog), posted a photographic tour of Ahmedabad’s new bus rapid transit …

Johannesburg Rolls Out New BRT Routes Against Odds
March 18, 2010 – 4:44 pm | 6 Comments

Johannesburg Rolls Out New BRT Routes Against Odds

On Monday, despite a two-week delay, violent opposition, vandalism and a minibus taxi strike, Johannesburg successfully rolled out new Rea Vaya BRT routes in the Soweto township.
As we reported previously, South Africa’s first BRT system …

A Photographic Tour of Ahmedabad’s Janmarg BRT System
March 17, 2010 – 12:22 pm | 10 Comments

A Photographic Tour of Ahmedabad’s Janmarg BRT System

Prajna Rao is a transport planner at the Centre for Sustainable Transport in India (CST-India), a member of the EMBARQ Network, which produces this blog. She provides a photographic overview of Ahmedabad’s new BRT system, …

Top 21 Time-Saving Cities
March 16, 2010 – 6:20 pm | 5 Comments

Top 21 Time-Saving Cities

Cities have been ranked in all kinds of ways. Best places to live, best access to the outdoors, most walkable, most obese, ease of landing a green job, best street art.
Now, there’s a new …