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San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni…
October 25, 2024
Will the ‘Car-Free’ Los Angeles Olympics Work?
What’s undisputed is that, starting in the mid-1940s, powerful social forces transformed Los Angeles so that commuters had…
August 24, 2024
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Should Have Been the Future
On Wednesday, New York governor Kathy Hochul shocked the state and the country when she announced she would…
June 7, 2024
Internal Emails Show How a Controversial Gun-Detection AI System Found Its Way to NYC
There was a lot of overlap with former members of the NYPD. Adams and Banks came up together…
May 13, 2024
San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks—and Will for Years
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the…
April 11, 2024
Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next
Solano‐Rojas and his colleagues found subsidence in the area of an overpass near the Olivos station, which collapsed…
April 10, 2024
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime
Staff at the transportation body ran “extensive simulations” at Willesden Green station during the trial to gather more…
February 8, 2024