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January 19, 2026 buffalo / Community / Train / transit / transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

A Subway in Buffalo?

Buffalo’s light rail/subway punches above its weight

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March 29, 2025 buffalo / bus / new urbanism / transit / transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism / walkability

Another Quick Night in Buffalo

Another spontaneous night in Buffalo highlights how easy and important it is to change your scenery

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February 1, 2025 albany / amsterdam / biking / binghamton / buffalo / geneva / new urbanism / New York Cities / rochester / rome / schenectady / syracuse / transit / transportation / troy / Uncategorized / urbanism / utica / utica / walkability

A Decade

Ten Years Of The Urban Phoenix

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July 6, 2024 transit / transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

“It Never Came.” The Failure of American Public Transit

While in Denver for a conference, my wife and her colleagues tried to use public transit to to reach downtown. Here’s how it went.

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June 11, 2019 buffalo / transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

Comments About Buffalo’s Rail Extension Expose Our Fear Of Suburban Transit

Why it’s so hard to get suburban transit projects done

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December 7, 2018 transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

What’s Happening To Public Transit?

Transit ridership is down sharply. Here’s why, and what it means going forward.

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December 6, 2018 buffalo / New York Cities / transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

Buffalo’s Metro Rail: What Transit Should Be

Buffalo’s Metro Rail has a “blue collar” approach to moving people about a city that is just starting to turn the corner

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July 17, 2018 transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

Survey Shows Rails Still Rule… Kind Of

Small study shows that light rail is still the preferred form of mass transit

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February 8, 2018 transportation / Uncategorized / urbanism

Transit Moves People, Not Money

Connecting residents to jobs, education and resources should be transit’s priority, not investment dollars and vibrancy

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October 31, 2017 Uncategorized

Detroit’s QLINE: Cool, Calm, But Not Connective

Detroit’s new streetcar adds to the fun of downtown, but does little to provide real transit

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January 10, 2017 Uncategorized

Falling Out of Love With The Automobile

Why young people are choosing transit over driving in droves

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