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The Robert Group Makes Public Input Hard to Ignore
Southern California's biggest plans do not move on engineering alone. This 11-person public-affairs firm turns maps, environmental reports and construction schedules into conversations people can actually enter.
Durham Region Runs the Business Nobody Can Opt Out Of - Here’s the Playbook for Making 780,000 Customers Feel Local
Durham’s real product is coordination: one regional layer for pipes, buses, health, housing and emergencies across eight very different municipalities. Its useful lesson for operators is simple - scale the hard infrastructure, then make the front door feel local.
Metrolinx Bet $13 Billion on One Toronto Rail Line - Here’s What Transit Builders Should Copy, and What They Should Never Repeat
The agency made regional integration feel ordinary with one fare card and free transfers. Then a 19-kilometre light-rail project took 15 years and roughly $13.1 billion to open - a case study in both the power and peril of building the connective tissue of a city.
The Bus System Learning to Bend
Metro Detroit was built around the car. SMART is trying to make the region work for everyone else - one fixed route, curb-to-curb trip and on-demand connection at a time.
GILLIG
GILLIG is a 135-year-old American bus maker based in Livermore, California, and the second-largest transit bus manufacturer in North America. Every GILLIG bus - clean diesel, CNG, hybrid, battery electric, and a coming hydrogen fuel cell model - is designed and assembled by U.S. workers for public transit agencies across the country.
Hayden AI
Hayden AI is a San Francisco-based vision-AI company that turns city buses into rolling sensors. Its behind-the-windshield cameras and edge-AI perception stack detect bus-lane and bus-stop violations in real time, then send verified evidence to enforcement agencies - powering programs in New York, DC, Los Angeles, and beyond.