California Rail and Road

Imagining a Transit Story Future

By Kedric Francis

Kedric Francis
Pandemics
What Is The Future Of Public Transit In The U.S.?
NPR
Public transit agencies in the U.S. are struggling with lower ridership and revenues during the pandemic. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with transit experts about whether subway and bus systems can survive....
Dec 29, 2020
Kedric Francis
Transit
More remote work? Even worse traffic? What the post-pandemic future holds for California transportation
The Mercury News - Nico Savidge
California’s fearsome traffic evaporated when the state locked down this spring. Most commuters cleared off of its public transportation systems too, …
Dec 22, 2020
Kedric Francis
Zoning
A Downtown in Downtown: Los Angeles’s Manifest Destiny - Los Angeles Review of Books
lareviewofbooks.org - By Joseph Giovannini
BACK IN THE 1970s and 1980s, if you were a developer with a project awaiting a green light in downtown Los Angeles’s Ninth Council District, …
Dec 27, 2020
Kedric Francis
We found ourselves exploring new places together from behind the wheel: the coastline up Big Sur, the outer reaches of the desert near Joshua Tree, the abandoned Salton Sea, and Idyllwild, a mountain …
How Covid Changed the Way I Drive
Bloomberg - Hannah Elliott
Dec 22, 2020
Kedric Francis
Public Transit Has to Come Back
The Atlantic - Janette Sadik-Khan
When public-transportation agencies across the country saw a once-in-a-century drop in passengers as the coronavirus swept the nation, longtime transit doomsayers saw an opportunity. The pandemic, many...
Dec 21, 2020