RTAnswers May Blog
You gave us your questions and we have answers from the RTA! If you would like to ask the RTA a question feel free to email Autumn at autumn@rideneworleans.org and …
Bad for transit, bad for affordable housing
Please consider signing the Ride New Orleans/HousingNOLA petition The New Orleans City Planning Commission (CPC) is considering a policy that would mean more pavement, less affordable housing, and worse transit …
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Tell the Convention Center enough is enough
Recently, the Convention Center sued the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) to try to force the agency to turn over part of the sales tax revenue collected on hotel/motel …
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Month in Review – June
Summer is here! And with it comes our June month-in-review. Read on below to catch up on all things happening in the world of New Orleans regional transit: Better late …
Can the RTA improve on-time performance?
Late or missing buses and streetcars always top the list of rider complaints. And no wonder! In RIDE’s 2020 State of Transit report, we showed that overall New Orleans Regional …
Month in Review – April
Spring is always good news – and there’s a lot to be hopeful about this spring in particular! For transit, the best news is that the New Orleans Regional Transit …
New Links is approved!!!
After more than two years of sharing your thoughts and ideas about how to improve our transit service, it’s official – the New Orleans region will have a new transit …
World-class and equitable public transit – our new reality?
The New Links regional transit network redesign final proposal is here! More than two years after this community-driven process to rethink and jump-start the region’s transit system began, there …
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New Links – refresher and next steps
With the New Links regional transit network redesign final proposal coming next week, we thought it would be a good time for a quick review on what New Links is, …
The New Links proposal is here!
The two-year long New Links process has been all about redesigning the regional transit network to make transit more reliable, more frequent, and get riders to more places around the …