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Transportopia News and Views: A $3.5 Billion Rail Dream, Three New Robotaxi Cities, and the Bus That Finally Won!
News & Views for September 1 to 15, 2026 By Rick L"Amie The Transportopia Podcast is taking on hiatus this week, so we're hoping you enjoy a new News and Views blog post. Its been a minute since our last post. Two weeks of transit news, and the pattern is hard to miss. The biggest decisions about how Americans get around right now are being made locally, one budget vote, one ordinance, one bus lane at a time. Atlanta put a price on a rail line it has talked about for two deca
Rick L'Amie
2 days ago8 min read
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Transportopia News and Views: A $3.5 Billion Rail Dream, Three New Robotaxi Cities, and the Bus That Finally Won!
News & Views for September 1 to 15, 2026 By Rick L"Amie The Transportopia Podcast is taking on hiatus this week, so we're hoping you enjoy a new News and Views blog post. Its been a minute since our last post. Two weeks of transit news, and the pattern is hard to miss. The biggest decisions about how Americans get around right now are being made locally, one budget vote, one ordinance, one bus lane at a time. Atlanta put a price on a rail line it has talked about for two deca
Rick L'Amie
2 days ago8 min read
Now Open! The Transportopia Store
We've spent a lot of episodes talking about transit. Now you can hang some of it on your wall. Today we're launching the Transportopia Store, and we're kicking things off with a lineup from a company we've been fans of for a while: The Design Rules Company, the studio behind Metroboard, a live, moving subway map that's become one of the more unexpected phenomena in the transit world. The Board That Started It All If you caught our recent episode with Metroboard co-founders Ki
Rick L'Amie
Aug 112 min read
News and Views: Record Rides, a Railroad on the Edge, and a Penn Station Turf War
Transportopia: News & Views — July 7, 2026 Two weeks in transit and urban planning rarely deliver a World Cup, a bond default near-miss, a housing bill in legislative limbo, and a public feud between two transit agency chiefs all at once. This one did. Here's what actually mattered. For an audio version of this blog post, check out this week's Transportopia Podcast. THE WORLD CUP IS REWRITING RIDERSHIP RECORD BOOKS Halfway through the 2026 FIFA World Cup, transit agencies acr
Rick L'Amie
Jul 75 min read
When Buses Drive Themselves: The Quiet AV Revolution
What If Autonomous Vehicles Solved the Right Problem? A conversation with Eran Ofir, CEO of Imagry You've probably seen a Waymo by now. Maybe in San Francisco, or Phoenix, or Austin — a white SUV gliding through traffic with no one behind the wheel. It's striking. It's a little unsettling. And it raises an obvious question: is this the future of transportation? Eran Ofir thinks we're asking the wrong question. Photo courtesy Imagry Ofir is the CEO of Imagry, an autonomous dri
Rick L'Amie
Jun 163 min read
Take the Train: A Day on the G with My Favorite Transit Rider
Last week I traveled to Brooklyn to spend a day on the New York City subway with my daughter Lauren — guest of one Transportopia episode, and after ten years in New York, by my admittedly biased reckoning, my favorite transit rider in the world. Lauren moved to New York from Austin, Texas, almost exactly ten years ago. The same year she got on a plane east, we sold the family second car — a 1998 Honda CR-V we called Herman. She hasn’t owned a car since. Today she lives in Bro
Rick L'Amie
Jun 42 min read
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