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Urban Mobility

The Final Stretch: How America's Transit Systems Are Losing Riders in the Last Half-Mile

Even the most sophisticated rail and bus networks in the United States are hemorrhaging ridership not because of long delays or overcrowded platforms, but because of what happens after commuters step off the train. The last-mile gap—that frustrating final stretch between a transit hub and a rider's actual destination—remains one of the most persistent and underappreciated failures in modern urban transportation. Cities across the country are now piloting bold new strategies to close this gap bef

Sep 3, 2026

Transit Technology

Why the Arrival Time on Your Transit App Is Often Wrong—and What Cities Are Doing About It

Commuters across the United States have learned, often through bitter experience, that the countdown timer on their transit app is more of an educated guess than a reliable fact. Behind this chronic inaccuracy lies a tangle of aging infrastructure, fragmented data systems, and vendor contracts that have not kept pace with the expectations of modern riders. A growing number of cities are now confronting this transparency crisis directly—with results that suggest the problem is solvable, but only

Sep 3, 2026