Consider the following:
- The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has lost 35 percent of its transit riders in the past few years (see spreadsheet), mainly because financial problems forced it to severely cut back transit service.
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- September Transit Ridership 76.3% of 2019
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- The Dangers of Bus Rapid Transit
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- Demographia Wendell Cox’s compilation and review of population data
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- American Planning Association Voice of the urban planning profession
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- The Public Transit blog Reasonable (for a rail-transit advocate) analysis of transit data
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute Promotes rail transit & smart growth
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- Prepare for Wildfire How to make your home firewise
- Streamliner Memories The Antiplanner’s blog about the history of American passenger trains
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- Highway Statistics US DOT’s annual compilation of highway data
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- Transit Database Visualization Graphs of the National Transit Database showing ridership trends by agency and mode.
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