In a cordial Senate hearing that would seem to bode well for his confirmation, Anthony Foxx said that as secretary of transportation, he would prioritize safety, efficiency, and multi-modal infrastructure.

A new report on D.C.'s bike share system -- currently the largest in the country (at least until Memorial Day) -- teases out some user statistics in a some just-released data. Users patronize businesses near bike share stations, they save $16 a week in travel costs, and they ...

Opponents of the McDonnell administration's plan to build a major north-south highway in Northern Virginia scored a temporary win on Tuesday: they convinced the Prince William County Board of Supervisors to defer a decision to submit its transportation projects wish list to state funding officials.

The city wants to turn the Sheridan Expressway into a West Side highway-style boulevard. The at-grade Bronx street with lights and trees is designed to mend a neighborhood torn apart by the aborted highway, while still giving truck access to the nearby Hunts Point market.

House Republicans and Amtrak execs debated who should pay for long-distance rail lines. Beijing's new subway lines won't save the city from traffic and smog. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's post-office plans could involve avenging himself upon a taxi kingpin. And: looking for love in Prague? There's a subway car for ...

Riders on Metro-North's New Haven Line will regain limited service to Connecticut with the 3:07 pm train out of Grand Central Terminal. Hourly service into New York City will resume with the 4:23 train out of New Haven.

The bikes won't hit the streets for another five days, but users can now download the official Citi Bike app.

Boston is installing several 'parklets.' South Jersey is looking at a new light rail line. San Francisco's Central Subway project may fall below federal minimums for time and money. And: how the Silver Springs Transit Center became a train wreck. "It was a series of mistakes that were dumbfounding.”

The state of Connecticut has been scrambling for a decade to make up for years of failing to invest in Metro-North Railroad. That's part of why the railroad has been finding it so hard to get service up and running on the New Haven Line after Friday's derailment.

The first stage of construction on California’s high-speed rail is set to begin this summer, but the legal challenges aren’t going away anytime soon. Last week, a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by Central Valley residents of Kings County to block construction will move forward as planned.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today rejected the idea that state agencies like New Jersey Transit needed to prepare for climate change ahead of Sandy.

“‘Cause I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change,” he said.

Two thousand feet of chewed up track and bent rails is a lot.  This MTA video shows the magnitude of the job ahead at the place where two trains collided Friday. Purposefully so, so you don't get too mad while it takes a while to get Metro-North service fully up ...

Pakistan's rail system sums up the country's woes. Corrosion is a problem on the new section of the Bay Bridge. More poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas. Dreamliner flights resume today. And: public art in New Orleans is designed to help with future hurricane ...

The MTA and Connecticut DOT will be offering bus and train shuttle service this week while the tracks and overhead lines are repaired at the site of Friday's collision.  But the transportation authority is cautioning passengers to plan for significant travel delays, and to expect crowded trains and buses.

Two Metro-North trains collided near Bridgeport, Connecticut, Friday during the height of the evening rush hour, injuring some 72 passengers, 3 critically. Train service to New Haven is suspended at least through the weekend, and Amtrak is suspending all Northeast Corridor between New York and New Haven indefinitely.

Work to lift the Bayonne Bridge will begin soon. Amtrak upgraded the Wi-Fi on its trains. San Francisco will now require developers to add more bike parking. A pipeline running through New Jersey exemplifies why environmentalists complain about Governor Christie. And: Happy Bike to Work Day!

Bike lanes in Washington, D.C. vary from the simple—narrow lanes marked by thin, white lines squeezed between vehicular travel lanes and parked cars—to the advanced: protected cycle tracks lying between parked cars on one side and the sidewalk on the other.

New Jersey Transit has released its hurricane plan. Even so, portions of the, slim, three-and-a-half page plan remain blacked out, including -- significantly -- information on where trains would be stored during hurricanes. Some $120 million of NJ Transit trains stored in low-lying areas during storm Sandy were flooded.  Since ...

Alameda County found over 80 percent of transit-dependent people have trouble getting around. As one rider put it: "When the buses don’t run, neither do we. That means we can’t work, play, socialize things like that. And we can’t get jobs and keep jobs and and go to doctors appointments ...

Here's part of the MTA's problem in post-Sandy world: six subway stations are located in the Lower Manhattan flood zone, and those stations have 540 openings -- manholes, stairways, elevators, hatches and vents -- that could allow water to flow underground. As the authority prepares for future storms, it needs ...