ANDREA NEAL: Indy lacks critical mass for mass transit

There is one inescapable reason that a regional mass-transit system will not succeed in the Indianapolis area.

EDITORIAL: Send RBA's seed money back to RDA

The Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority planted seed money in the Regional Bus Authority, but regional transportation withered for lack of support by the Lake County Council and others.

MARK KIESLING: The RBA — to be or not to be?

Yep. William Shakespeare asked that question about 500 years ago, admittedly in a different context.

EDITORIAL: Bus service needs last-minute savior

The demise of the Northwest Indiana Regional Bus Authority is getting closer and closer. It is not too late for a rescue, but we've already reached the last minute.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Local bus services affect businesses

Having a reliable public transportation system is good for the whole business community, not just for those people who ride it. It has the potential to affect many lives per week as people go to medical appointments or work or use buses for other purposes. Although I do not ride the bus, my …

GUEST COMMENTARY: Do we have political will to fund bus service?

"Why do we need buses? Everyone has a car."

GUEST COMMENTARY: RBA shutdown wouldn't be a catastrophe

Unfortunately, the Times' recent editorial regarding the potential shutdown of the Northwest Indiana Regional Bus Service blurred the facts substantially.

GUEST COMMENTARY: RBA's paratransit service is a lifeline for me

If you lived in the region in 1983, you might remember reading about a guy who dived into the pool at Wicker Park and broke his neck. That's me. In the blink of an eye I went from being a healthy young man to being a quadriplegic, unable to use my legs or arms.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Local funding is vital for securing transit options

The decision by local officials in the Indianapolis metro area to form the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority in 2004 represented a beginning step forward in creating regional public transportation.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Gas prices driving higher demand for mass transit

Lately there has been lots of discussion on gasoline prices: sharp increases of 25 to 30 cents per gallon overnight, price gouging, price setting and all of the other rhetoric on volatility, availability, opening U.S. reserves, etc.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Why pull the rug out from under the RBA now?

You've probably heard or read about a bill moving through the Indiana Legislature that would replace the Regional Bus Authority with a Northwest Indiana Bus Commission. The existing RBA board will be dissolved and replaced with a smaller body, providing less community representation. Other c…

V-Line buses declared Safe Place

VALPARAISO | If someone feels they are being threatened physically or verbally, they now have a new place to go for refuge. Just hop on the bus.

State Rep. Soliday wants to reform RBA board

The chairman of the Indiana House Transportation Committee plans to introduce legislation to reform the Northwest Indiana Regional Bus Authority's board of directors.