school bus fleet within the decade.
As the logistical challenges of electrifying the nation’s city bus fleets continues to stymie transit agencies, a the new U.S. Public Interest Research Group report reveals that the electric school transportation vehicles, with their comparatively simple schedules and routes, are actually “ready to roll” right now if districts can just solve the problem of how to pay for what would be a game-changer for our national climate outlook.
By some measures, the school bus industry actually represents the largest mass transit program in the U.S., boasting 480,000 vehicles that are responsible for 10 billion students trips every single year. (By contrast, Americans take about 9.9 billion trips per year on the grown-up public transportation system, but that includes
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Judging by the results of C-Tran’s initial Bus Rapid Transit line, a similar system along Mill Plain Boulevard is warranted.
Officials are moving forward with plans to prepare the region for the future, creating infrastructure that will provide benefits for generations to come. Increasing the accessibility and efficiency of mass transit will help make Vancouver more livable, help mitigate climate change and mark the area as a forward-thinking locale the kind that is attractive to new businesses and new residents.
This week, the Vancouver City Council approved an agreement with C-Tran to upgrade the area’s fiber optic network. C-Tran uses fiber optics to communicate with bus stations, and current capacity is insufficient to support a Bus Rapid Transit line.
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As just about everyone knows, the United States is way behind the curve on developing high-speed rail transport. Most of the developed countries of Europe and Asia have high-speed rail networks tying their cities together, while this country has only one such line that just barely qualifies. Some of those other countries, most notably China and Japan, are also investing in magnetic levitation, the next generation of superfast rail travel. To date, proposals to build a maglev line in America have not advanced past the “vaporware” stage, but that’s about to change, now that the Federal Transit Administration has released a preliminary review of a plan to build a 40-mile maglev line connecting Washington and Baltimore, the first leg of a possible maglev line connecting all the cities of the Northeast Corridor.
The Des Plaines River Trail in Cook County has always struck me as something of a missed opportunity. While it runs near Chicago’s West and Northwest sides and has some lovely river views, it’s largely a dirt path that is pretty much impassible in damp conditions unless you have a mud-friendly bike. (Once you cross into Lake County at Lake-Cook Road, the trail is paved with crushed limestone, which is much easier to ride after a rain, and it goes almost all the way to the Wisconsin border.) There are also some access issues and disruptions in the route.