Kate Hinds

NYC's bike share program is here. We repeat: BIKE SHARE IS HERE. Full roundup of Monday's launch inside. In other news: Germany is using drones to track down train graffiti vandals, C...

A bridge collapsed in Washington state. A parking garage collapsed in suburban Maryland. Citi Bikes are starting to populate NYC bike share docking stations. Tech-savvy scammers in Me...

New York City's newest mayoral candidate spoke at great length Thursday morning about a range of issues. But the last question: since the city's bike share program launches in four da...

New NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner says he won't go on an "anti-bike lane jihad." A bill before the House would require Amtrak to permit pets on one car of each train. A giant s...

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 apar...

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 Bloombe...

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. A...

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. ...

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 throug...

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 then, the agency has been fiercely secretive, going so far as to black out the date that the hurricane plan was drawn up, citing security reasons.

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, ...

A train service over Jamaica Bay will resume seven months after Sandy washed away the tracks.

Breathing auto emissions can turn 'good' cholesterol into 'bad.' The MTA is testing an inflatable subway tunnel plug at South Ferry. Houston is cleaning up its mishmash of parking sig...

On Monday, the governor of Minnesota signed the state's Marriage Equality bill into law.  To celebrate, on Tuesday the city of Minneapolis lit up its I-35 bridge in rainbow colors.

The NTSB wants states to lower the legal limit for drivers’ blood-alcohol content. Los Angeles's transit system is betting big on bikes. A bill in North Carolina is setting its sights...

“Citi Bike is generating more excitement than we’ve ever seen for a new transportation option and there’s no sign of it stopping,” said DOT head Janette Sadik-Khan. (And that nu...

If you live in Westchester and have a pond on your property, the county's Health Department has a present for you.

New Jersey Transit commissioned a study on climate change. But the report didn't raise alarms, and when Sandy roared in, the nation's largest statewide transit agency was overwhelmed, leaving trains in low-lying areas and suffering $120 million in damage to a flooded fleet.

South Jersey counties want more say in the NJ Turnpike Authority. Brazil's death rate from passenger car crashes is four times that of the U.S. A woman was led off an American Airline...