The widely ridiculed "La Sombrita" bus shelter in Los Angeles provides a warning for planners and designers about the dangers of over-promising and under-delivering.

Low-wage workers are buying cars in L.A. like crazy, driving transit ridership down. That's because the apartment equivalent of a 2001 Corolla is impossible to find. >>read more

Did Howard Jarvis really mean to force transit advocates to try to make everybody happy in order to get a two-thirds vote for Measure M? >>read more

San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center is slowing taking shape in a hole south of Market Street.  

It's not quite the Golden Spike, but the completion of Phase I of the Los Angeles Expo Line light rail marks a momentous occasion in the history of westward rail expansion.

Judging by the likes of Oakland, Berkeley, and, of course, San Francisco, a plan to encourage density, transit use, and environmentalism in the Bay Area might seem redundant. But these vibrant urban centers are just small elements in the sprawling, nine-county region that is the subject of the fourth and final Sustainable Communities Strategy to be drafted for California's major urban areas.