Describes the local impacts of the proposal to remove transit funding from the Highway Trust Fund

The Community Transportation Association of America's site for information about reauthorization

Provides a political perspective compared to that of the transportation professionals

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.

Fixing the Mobility Crisis Threatening the Baby Boom Generation

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.

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

Great articles about diverse aspects of transportation and place.

"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. "

From The Atlantic Cities

From The Atlantic Cities - January 23, 2012