Bicycle Sharing and Public Transit

Does Capital Bikeshare Affect Metrorail Ridership in Washington, D.C.?


Bicycle-sharing programs have emerged around the world. Theoretically, the effect of bicycle sharing on more conventional transit modes can take a substitute or complementary form. On one hand, bicycle sharing could substitute for conventional transit as a convenient and sustainable travel option.
http://trrjournalonline.trb.org/doi/10.3141/2534-01
Article courtesy of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Gov. Brown proposes spending $176 million toward Exide cleanup

Gov. Jerry Brown today announced a plan to spend $176.6 million to expedite the testing and cleanup of potentially thousands of lead-contaminated homes surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant in Vernon. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-exide-cleanup-20160217-story.html
Story courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Tony Barboza

Angry T riders are wearing boxing gloves in protest of fare hikes

Transit advocates came out fighting against MBTA fare increases at a Wednesday state transportation meeting.

Flanked by two men clad in boxing gloves, Caroline Casey of the T Riders Union blasted plans to increase fares and criticized T management for relying on higher fares to balance the authority’s budget.  http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/02/11/angry-riders-are-wearing-boxing-gloves-protest-fare-hikes/Gl5LwgbX002F4IsuIyjkwL/story.html?p1=feature_stack_1_hp

Article courtesy of boston.com by Adam Vaccaro

Where's El Niño? Climate experts say more rain on the way

"The rainy weather patterns associated with El Niño have shifted," Null explained. "Right now, we have a ridge over the West Coast. That will undoubtedly change.
"The big question is how much will it change when we get into the second half of February and into March? That we really don't know.  http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Where-s-El-Ni-o-Weather-experts-say-more-rain-6818193.php
Article courtesy of sfgate.com by Amy Graff

Government Center T station to reopen March 26

Boston’s shuttered Government Center transit station will reopen March 26 after undergoing renovations for nearly two years, a T official said in an interview posted online.  http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/02/02/government-center-station-reopen-march/tIKHdj60yTI0iRZq9vP9sK/story.html?p1=menu_news_latest
Article courtesy of  The Boston Globe by Adam Vaccaro

MBTA payroll shows $300,000, $200,000 earners

The MBTA payroll released today shows two employees pulled down $300,000-plus last year and 34 more took home gross pay of $200,000 or more.
The data, part of the Herald's annual Your Taxpayers at Work Report, also shows that nearly 2,000 of the T's workers on the payroll earned $100,000 or more last year. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2016/01/mbta_payroll_shows_300000_200000_earners
Article courtesy of The Boston Herald by Joe Dwinell

Booting Up: New ‘face’ of disruption

A patent application published just days ago reveals that the social network is looking to help users find travel buddies through its already existing events platform.  http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/2016/02/booting_up_new_face_of_disruption
Article courtesy of The Boston Herald by Jessica Van Sack

MIT team rockets past competition

It may seem like so much pie in the sky right now, but a globally embraced dream of creating a levitating, 700-mile-per-hour public transit system is already coming true for enterprising engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who learned Saturday that their design of a futuristic bullet train bested 100 others submitted from around the world for the SpaceX Hyperloop. http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/2016/02/mit_team_rockets_past_competition
Article courtesy of the Boston Herald by Laurel J. Sweet