public transportation

The experience of operating 10 electric buses the past two winters has RTS looking for better options - aided by $5 million from New York state.

Until recently, Sherrodney Fulmore rode a bus to get to and from his job at Wegmans.From his home in Rochester’s 19th Ward to the Holt Road Wegmans in…

All RTS rides will be free starting Friday until further notice. CEO Bill Carpenter said that'll limit the amount of times the fare box is touched during…

What’s new with RTS? This hour, we sit down with RTS CEO Bill Carpenter who shares a number of updates.Reimagine RTS is a redesign of Monroe County’s…

The Community Design Center's (CDC) Reshaping Rochester series continues with a conversation about multi-modal transportation in urban areas.Shin-pei Tsay…

Does urbanism die in the winter? After the first major snowstorm of the season, a social media thread about a man who walked through the middle of the…

First, there was a Streetcar Named Desire; now there is a question about whether Rochester has a desire for a streetcar. A new film called “The Trolley”…

City Lab is reporting that the number of car-rich households is on the rise in many cities, even in those which are transit-oriented and where…

We’re talking about road diets. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it refers to reducing lanes or roads in order to minimize traffic accidents, reduce…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ New York City's subway system handles about 5.7 million riders every weekday, more than 10 times the combined daily ridership of all…