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I am concerned that, as with many transit issues, the US deals with implementation challenges by avoiding them. NY's MTA has 60 electric buses (~1% of fleet) & they're failing. So it's reducing its order for more. Comparison: —London: ~33% —Paris: ~21% —Milan: ~21% —Hamburg: ~39% —Barcelona: ~20%

Battery Drain: MTA Trims New Flyer Electric Bus Order Amid Tech Growing Pains - Streetsblog New York CityThe MTA will buy 85 fewer electric buses as its manufacturer tries to sort out a way to keep them in service without breaking down.nyc.streetsblog.org

Wild to see US cities pursuing these huge redevelopment projects without effective transit plans. If this were a European or Asian city, 7200 future homes would mean a light rail branch at the minimum. Instead, because the US can't afford to build anything, the area might get some bus improvements.

Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

The US House’s proposed transportation legislation—sponsored by both Republicans & Democrats—would cut transit funding massively, affecting every state & congressional district. Instead, it focuses on highway building through blank checks to state DOTs

How Will Congress’s Proposed Cuts to Transit Funding Affect Your State and Congressional District?The next transportation reauthorization law will reshape federal transportation spending for years to come.www.urban.org

Trump administration acknowledges in court documents that it terminated billions of dollars in grants not “based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor”—but because they were to entities in states that voted for Harris.

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for HimFederal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.www.nytimes.com

New UK prime minister Burnham caps nationwide bus fares at £2 in a cost of living effort (excluding London).

Burnham announces bus fares across England to be capped at £2Measure to cost more than £500m, with money allocated to allow devolved nations to do the samewww.theguardian.com

US government has spent $37.5 billion in 5 months on Iran war, equivalent to amount of money it spends on housing vouchers annually. While one policy helps 5 million Americans afford decent homes, the other kills innocent bystanders, destroys essential infrastructure, & increases energy prices.

And bring universal Medicare coverage down to 55

US homeownership rate is conventionally described as being ~ 65%. But that measure fails to take into account the large number of adults living in homes where *other* adults actually own the homes. People like young adults, elderly, friends. Once you account for that, the rate declines to… 53%.

New homeownership measure puts people first | Federal Reserve Bank of MinneapolisAn alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to trackwww.minneapolisfed.org

just mind boggling that as we suffer through this the trump admin is paying off energy companies to kill wind farms, the US EV market has imploded because of lack of subsidies, congress wants to pass a transport bill that would reduce funds for transit, & national dems have no climate strategy

Interesting new paper from @jdbk.bsky.social, @jaredkalow.bsky.social showing that opening a new transit station in a neighborhood is associated with a 2.7% point increase in support for *later* transit ballot measures. People's support for transit investment increases when they get better transit!

DC is making good progress on its deckover of Connecticut Ave near Dupont Circle. It will improve the district, making it more walkable, with less pollution. Cities across the US were supposed to get similar improvements to reconnect communities. But GOP killed funding for these projects in 2025.

Another item: Authorizations for transportation spending die on September 30, and the Highway Trust Fund is facing a $150+ billion gap over the next five years.

The US House is considering a transportation bill that would cut transit funding massively. We estimate that it would cut transit funds by 23% compared to the current infrastructure law. Every state would lose millions of dollars in transit formula funding. Details: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Hard to claim to be a democracy when you’re controlling other countries’ governments, extracting their resources, and jailing their leaders

Fantastic ridership for Seattle’s relatively young & still limited light rail system made possible by: —very frequent service —direct access to most important destinations —fast service thanks to mostly subway or elevated routes —coordinated planning that’s concentrated development near stops

Downzoning in Chicago, like in many areas, resulted in: —Less housing —Higher housing costs —Higher white population share