Links to non-MTS transit and transportation web sites

MTS was a very successful advocacy organization between 1971 and 2011. Many links below are obsolete, but the referenced documents or organizations can be searched.

Transit maps, schedules, & info:

• San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento regions, surrounding regions
• All of California by region, and intercity
• List of Guidebooks with maps, schedules, weekends, vacations for car-free travel.

New types of transit and new lines:

• Los Angeles' new East-West line
• Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) , Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) , Taxi2000, SkyLoop PRT
  • PRT in the SF Bay Area
• San Francisco's new Third Street light rail line
• New Light Rail extension (Tasman) in the South Bay.
• Light Rail Transit web site
• Suspended Rail Transit
• also see more new transit in MTS articles

Eliminate automobile subsidies!

• Sierra Club: America's Autos On Welfare: A Summary of Subsidies
• Environmental Defense Fund: Unclogging the highways and clearing the air. This site will appear to pause during download but it's well worth seeing.
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute has many articles including Transportation Market Distortions, Automobile Dependency And Transportation Diversity, and Optimal Transport Pricing. (Scroll down their home page for a listing and synopsis)
• Societal Costs of Automobiles: do a Google or similar search with this phrase for many listings
• Free Market for Transportation Plan by the Modern Transit Society
• Book: The Elephant in the Bedroom: Automobile Dependence & Denial; Impacts on the Economy and Environment by Stanley Hart and Alvin Spivak (MTS co-founder).

Induced traffic: Adding more lanes fails to ease congestion:

• Generated Traffic and Induced Travel Implications for Transport Planning (February 2009) from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (Victoria, BC, Canada).
• The 15-Year Texas Transportation Institute Study, or see our excerpt, or the press release.
• Do widened roads create their own induced traffic? By Neal R. Peirce, Washington Post Writers Group
• Do New Roads Cause Congestion? [on STTP's web site]
• Why we can't build ourselves out of congestion [on STTP's web site]
• Remove It [Roads] And They [cars] Will Disappear... [on STTP's web site]
• List of studies for induced traffic on our web site.
• Bibliography for Induced and Reduced Traffic [on STTP's web site]

Traffic Calming:

• 10 Ways to Safer Streets: Walk San Jose
• Take Back Your Streets by CLF Conservation Law Foundation. This is a valuable easy-to-read report on how to stop highway construction. It's one, very large web page.
• Transportation for Livable Communities Network: http://www.tlcnetwork.org
• MTS showed why "traffic calming" works even before the word was coined. See the graph.

Advocacy:

• California: list of transit advocacy organizations
  • California legislative issues: see http://www.odyssey2020.org
  • Santa Clara VTA Riders Union
  • Fresno: http://www.movethetracks.org (relocate freight, use tracks for LRT)
• Walkers: Walk San Jose , Walk San Francisco , BayPeds (Bay Area Pedestrians)
• Trains: TRAC (Train Riders Assoc. of Calif.), NARP (national level), BayRail Alliance (Caltrains, Gilroy to San Francisco)
• Europe: Car Busters has witty newsletter, conferences, demonstrations, etc. Multilingual.
• Bicycles: Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, California Bicycle Coalition, CABO, League of American Bicyclists.

Land use:

• Carfree cities: a future scenario and incremental implementations: www.carfree.com
• Sierra Club's Stop Sprawl Campaign
• Transit-Focused Development
• Least Cost Transport Planning by International Bicycle Fund

Transportation History:

• Book: The Motorization of American Cities, by David St. Clair, a professor of economics. See book review.
• Book: Getting There by Stephen B. Goddard. The epic struggle between road and rail.
• Also see Conflict of Transportation Competitors, an illustrated historical report on the web by Akos Szoboszlay, MTS President.

Bicycle Articles: see list

Transportation Libraries:

• National Transportation Library: http://www.bts.gov/NTL
• UC Berkeley Transportation Library: www.lib.berkeley.edu/ITSL
• Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Research and Technology Program http://www.fta.dot.gov/research/index.htm
• Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State Univercity.