A project description, background, and links for the Opportunity Link - NCMT web series.

Opportunity Link - NCMT first in a five-part web series that explores the success of coordinated public transportation in the remote Northcentral Montana region. For more information, call (406) 265-3699 or e-mail transit@opportunitylinkmt.org

The second in a five-part web series talks about access to job development opportunities.

More kids participate in the Boys & Girls Club summer program thanks to NCMT.

Four videos telling the story of how people in Idaho benefit from transit, vanpools, senior transportation, and pathways.

"There's a lot to parse in this classic pro-sprawl piece, which starts out with the narrator lamenting the hectic state of the American highway system: 'We're running out of roads! We didn't dream big enough,' he explains."

Aired June 14, 2011. A national report found that, by 2015, most aging baby boomers will live where public transportation is poor or non-existent. For those who no longer drive, that lack of transportation options will trap many seniors in their homes.

Old Rural is dead or dying. But there is a New Rural there for the communities that can find a way.

The biggest challenge to the potential of New Rural may be from our increasingly urban leadership and its benign neglect of most things rural.

Need a little help at a great price to get where you are going in Montana? The owners of Rimrock Trailways are making a trip across the state to listen to input from riders and potential riders of their buses.

The future of public transportation, along with city funding for it, sparked a heated discussion Saturday morning at a youth-led event at the Bozeman Public Library. (Lisa Ballard was an advisor on this project)

Ashley Kroon contributes a fact-filled piece and a first-person review of the Streamline bus service that provides public transportation in the greater Bozeman, MT.

Published in Harvard Business Review by Walter Isaacson. As true in transportation operations and planning as with technology companies.

Provides a political perspective compared to that of the transportation professionals

Great articles about diverse aspects of transportation and place.

Aaron Antrim works to support good transportation information for rural (and non-rural) communities. His commentary always is interesting.

"55 million people live in the rural U.S. ­ Maybe you're one of them, or used to be, or want to be. As mainstream TV and newspapers retreat from small towns, the Daily Yonder is coming on strong. "

YPR is part of a multi-station public radio reporting project looking at the issue of transportation. Funding for the Transportation Nation project comes from the Rockefeller Foundation.

This Recommended Practice provides guidance for reporting and tracking key indicators of sustainability for transit agency signatories to the APTA Sustainability Commitment.

Based on the latest year's calculations it costs 59.6 cents per mile to own and operate a vehicle.

From The Atlantic Cities

From The Atlantic Cities - January 23, 2012