It’s telling that, even while transit agencies are being told to be more like Uber and Lyft, Uber and Lyft are increasingly mimicking buses. Latest:

Since December 16, 1940, New York has not opened another new subway line, aside from a handful of small extensions and connections. Here's what happened:

“There’s something so striking about a meme that says, ‘bae come over,’ and it’s a photo of a train,” said Marty.

“If there is any real-world scenario where it would be seemingly safe to operate in an automated mode, this should have been it,” David King, a Tempe-based professor of urban planning, said. “Something went seriously wrong.”

Supermarkets are among the last places in American society where different kinds of people mix. That's why, try as I might, I couldn't love Amazon Go.

We could have Wakanda-level transit if we wanted to. No vibranium-backed trust fund necessary.

My latest.

If you're around downtown Brooklyn tonight (2/5), I'm moderating this panel on public parks at the beautiful Brooklyn Historical Society. Starts at 6:30, $5 tix. Come by!

Since 2015, NYC DOT has installed more than 2,000 streetlights that give pedestrians a few seconds' head start. Among all of New York City's #visionzero interventions so far, it's what may be most responsible for the 32% drop in pedestrian deaths since that year.

Quayside might be a very "smart" move for Sidewalk Labs. And for the public?

Trump is reportedly preparing to unveil the $1 trillion deal before his State of the Union address.

“The violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability,” Joan Didion wrote of the wind that set southern California on fire this week. "The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” Now that's every city.

In October, I reported on whether Columbus, Ohio was keeping its promise to use a high-profile federal grant to help moms at high risk of unhealthy pregnancies. They weren't.

The story got attention, locally and nationally. Weeks after it came out, the city changed its tune.