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Electric Buses Are Struggling to Gain Traction Worldwide

What prevents cities from adopting electric buses en masse is a mix of technological, financial, and institutional challenges, according to a pair of reports from the World Resource Institute looking at efforts in 16 cities at various stages of adopting e-buses.

Linda Poon

Cars and bicyclists travel on a busy Manhattan street on April 2nd, 2019, in New York City. In an effort to ease traffic delays and to increase funding for public transportation, New York City has passed a plan for congestion pricing for all vehicles traveling into Manhattan south of 61st Street.

Ideas

How Cities Can Ensure Fair, Affordable Transit Amid a Glut of Emerging Transportation Technologies

City planners will need to focus on equity and flexibility, while refusing to buckle to venture capital.

David A. King & David Zipper

A Bird scooter sits parked on a street corner on April 17th, 2018, in San Francisco, California.

Economics

Could Banning Bird Scooters Leave Behind a City’s Most Economically Vulnerable Citizens?

Though scooter-shares have led to sidewalk safety concerns, they're also an accessible transportation option.

Max Ufberg

Members of the United States Border Patrol check a woman's identification at a Greyhound bus station in Phoenix, Arizona.

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Groups Are at Odds With Greyhound Over Its Right to Forbid Immigration Enforcement From Entering Buses

The bus company argues it has no choice but to cooperate with Customs and Border Protection agents' searches and interrogation of its passengers.

Massoud Hayoun

Viewfinder: A New Sea Bridge Opens in Hong Kong

Police patrol ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival for the official opening of the world's longest sea bridge on October 23rd, 2018, in Hong Kong.

Pacific Standard Staff

A phone displays the Uber app on March 13th, 2018.

Economics

Uber Increases Mass Transit Ridership

New research finds the ride-sharing service is more of a complement to public transportation than a substitute.

Tom Jacobs

Activists hold a demonstration against diesel cars in front of the Transport Ministry in Berlin, Germany, on March 14th, 2018.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Protests Against Diesel Cars in Germany

Activists hold a demonstration against diesel cars in front of the Transport Ministry in Berlin, Germany, on March 14th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Members of a railway union hold flares during a protest against the reform of the French state-owned railway company SNCF in Paris, France, on March 12th, 2018.

Economics

Viewfinder: A Railway Union Demonstration in France

Members of a railway union hold flares during a protest against the reform of the French state-owned railway company SNCF in Paris, France, on March 12th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff