Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition

12/27/2023

12/14/2023

Yes, hands up: I have a slight fondness for trains 😏 .

However, I have known about this dangerous practice for years and have been making much noise about it. Glad that John Oliver covered PSR.

John Oliver discusses freight trains and railroads, how they’ve put profits over safety, and, crucially, what shows he watched as a child that explain…everyt...

12/07/2023

Very good news for Pennsylvania!

U.S. Sens Bob Casey and John Fetterman announced $144 million for track improvements to expand Amtrak's service to Pittsburgh.

10/31/2023

The embarrassing failure of Wawa station.

There once was a railroad completed.It looked great, but there's one thing it needed.If a town had been founded, riders would've abounded.But instead, that s...

10/14/2023

A book that every person angered by 🇺🇸 auto-centric, racist planning policies.

Join us Thursday, November 9 at 6pm for a free virtual program and book talk with Nicholas Bloom, author of "The Great American Transit Disaster." In the book, Bloom argues that car culture in the United States was not inevitable. New York City, with its extensive network of subways, buses, and trains, is a good example of what could have been for some other American cities. Instead, many of them became auto-centric, leaving as an outlier.

In this virtual program, Bloom will examine case studies of other cities, including Baltimore and Chicago, where disinvestment in mass transit was a choice upheld by voters, their representatives, and policies. By looking to the past, Bloom’s research offers insights that could lead to a more public transit-focused future.

Learn more and register at nytransitmuseum.org/transitdisaster.

Book cover image courtesy of University of Chicago press.

10/03/2023

This is what true “progress” is like.

The Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad will use a $2.42 million grant to replace one of its 1970s-era locomotives.

07/31/2023

https://youtu.be/gAsRvSveOxI

The United States ranks below many industrialized nations when it comes to ridership on its passenger rail, but investment in U.S. rail is picking up. Railca...

07/30/2023

We could not have said this better.

Public transit in the U.S. is notorious for being infrequent and unreliable. Americans had to wait 17 minutes on average to get on public transit in 2022, wh...

03/25/2023

“I think smart city technologies matter more than ever.”

03/22/2023

Very good news. King of Prussia rail project has gone the way of the Schuylkill Valley Metro.

The SEPTA King of Prussia Extension for the NHSL is no more.The Armchair Urbanist Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLhycIWhOLttikNg2Z1aJvGPoqijpG...