Front Seat, the civic software company responsible for the massively popular Walkscore service, launched a new project today aimed at encouraging public transportation ridership. The project makes transit agency schedule data available, accessible, and open to developers so they can create applications to make it easier to ride. CityGoRound.org is a new portal where you can find the many applications developers have have created to ease and increase the convenience of riding transit.

With spike in ridership and increased fuel costs, the twin cities’ transit authority is facing some tough choices, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s editorial board says that a fare hike being proposed is unavoidable. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Study by the Straphangers Campaign finds that NYC has been slow to respond to increases in demand for public buses. (New York Times – Sewell Chan)