Sublime

In 2014, Seattle voters approved increases in sales tax and vehicle registration fees to buy even more bus service within city limits. Afterward, city leaders reorganized the agency specifically to emphasize transit’s importance, according to Bill Bryant, who joined Seattle DOT in 2007. Transit had been handled by a workgroup inside the DOT’s polic

The City of Los Angeles has perhaps the clearest example of an approval process that was designed to fail. Placing a single bus shelter within city limits requires sign-off from nine different entities: the local councilmember; the city bureaus of Street Services, Engineering, Street Lighting, and Contract Administration; its departments of Plannin

In Miami, for example, people wonder why intersections in residential neighborhoods are often so fat: two relatively narrow streets will meet in a sweeping expanse of asphalt that seems to take hours to walk across. The answer is that the firefighters’ union once struck a deal that no truck would ever be dispatched without a hefty number of firemen