The Trump administration has obligated over $42 million to fund “critical rail safety projects” along Florida’s notorious Brightline rail from a massive backlog of grants left behind by the Biden administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT).
A homeless man suffered from burns, alleging someone set him on fire while he slept in New York City’s Penn Station.
The UK’s pioneering driverless bus service, launched in Scotland to alleviate traffic congestion, is being discontinued due to insufficient passenger interest.
A Chicago man allegedly robbed a woman on a CTA train just 11 days after a judge released him on probation for robbing two people.
A U.S. District Judge ruled Friday that Illinois’ ban prohibiting concealed carry for self-defense on public transportation violates the Second Amendment.
A North Carolina man is thanking a bystander who helped him fight off a violent thief while riding the local light rail.
The Los Angeles Metro train system is suffering a wave of Third World-style copper cable theft that has disrupted service as criminals seek to strip the metal from the transportation network and sell it on the scrap market.
Israel has begun testing flying drone taxis that will carry passengers and cargo in a bid to ease traffic in what is one of the most densely-populated countries in the world.
A 16-year-old died at a Toronto subway station in what appears to be just the latest act of unexplained violence in recent months.
The city of Vienna has finally lifted its long-standing masking requirement on public transport – and now those who still wear masks are banned from doing so, and could even face fines.
A considerable minority of French, and a full half of Parisians, claim they do not feel safe while travelling on public transit.
A battery fire caused an electric bus to burst into flames on Saturday morning, in Hamden, Connecticut, according to officials. Luckily, no one died in the inferno, although two transit workers and two firefighters were hospitalized as a result of the blaze.
Joe Biden and others on the left believe increasing the inventory of houses Americans can afford requires putting more residences in already existing neighborhoods, including changing zoning laws to allow multiple units on single-family home lots.
Nearly 4,000 people in London were handed £200 ($250) fines for not wearing masks on London’s public transport system during the UK’s lockdown.
Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are prolonging mask rules for public transportation until April 18 even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said most citizens may ditch face coverings.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that nearly 93 percent of the U.S. population could go about their lives without masks.
The Philippine federal government this week ordered local governments across Metro Manila to begin enforcing a public transportation ban on all people not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, meaning anyone who cannot provide proof of coronavirus vaccination may not board buses, trains, boats, or planes in the Philippine national capital region, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Thursday.
The Italian government has moved to ban unvaccinated people from public transport, outdoor dining, sports centres and more.
In 2020, non-French migrants were accused of being disproportionately represented in crime stats for Paris area public transit.
Some workers of the Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM), Milan’s public transportation company, are threatening to strike as the mandatory coronavirus pass comes into force in Italian workplaces.
Joe Biden’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is mandating passengers wear masks on trains, buses, airplanes and airports through January 18, the agency announced earlier this week.
The iconic American suburban neighborhoods that attract families looking for safe and prosperous areas have been targeted in recent years
Ride-sharing giant Uber is reportedly attempting to strike a deal with government transit agencies to replace certain elements of public transport in major cities around the world.
The harsh lockdowns in New York has led people to flee the Big Apple to the suburbs, resulting in a 44 percent drop in apartment sales.
A suspect being sought in connection with a murder hijacked a public transportation bus near Dallas, Texas, Sunday morning and was shot dead by police after a pursuit along the President George Bush Turnpike.
A man was physically removed from a SEPTA bus in Philadephia for not wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a viral video reported by CBS Philly.
A Muslim bus driver in Stockholm refused to let a woman board his bus as he and another two others began praying in the vehicle.
A report from the Paris Police Prefecture has revealed that sexual assaults increased by 30 percent in 2018 on the city’s public transport system with over 1,000 cases reported.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the self-described Democratic Socialist who sponsored the “Green New Deal” legislation in the House, reportedly spent more than $29,000 on gas-guzzling rideshare services.
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, spent $133 million on a state-of-the-art electric bus system only to see it go bust, according to a report released Sunday.
A woman repeatedly slapped a man inside a New York City subway car on Saturday, continuing to hit the man while he cried out for help, according to a video of the incident.
LA Metro began a series of public meetings last week to showcase a Sepulveda Pass train route to launch its “Twenty-eight by ’28” plan to build public transportation projects in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
An attempt by California Democrats to increase affordable housing by ending zoning restrictions near urban transit stations was dropped last month due to a revolt by the urban poor whom the bill was ostensibly intended to benefit.
The Los Angeles Metro may put showers for homeless people near some of its stations, after the board of directors approved a resolution last Thursday to study the issue over the next four months.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed building a monorail along the Interstate 405 to connect the San Fernando Valley with West Los Angeles on Tuesday, relieving traffic on one of the world’s busiest and most congested roads.
MADRID (AP) — If you’re taking a bus in the Spanish capital, be sure to keep your legs to yourself. Madrid authorities on Monday started putting up signs banning the practice of ‘manspreading’ — opening one’s legs so wide you
The Board of San Francisco’s BART balked last Tuesday on a “call to declare the popular commuter line a ‘sanctuary’ system after being warned that the word might be seen as provocative by the Trump administration,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported this week.
Astronomically high parking prices outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for patrons headed to Los Angeles Rams games could be just the thing the city needs to combat congestion and encourage fans to use trains and buses, public transportation activists say.
The new Expo Line train connecting Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles had a rough start on its first regular weekday run, as a drunk driver crashed through a fence and left his car across both the eastbound and the westbound tracks Monday.
On May 5, the Missouri House voted 101-28 to pass legislation that will allow concealed carry on campuses and on various modes of public transportation.
