Alex Goldmark

Motor City files for bankruptcy, but it's a special kind of bankruptcy for cities. Leaf sales are up. So is transit ridership in Seattle. Also, in today's links, a transit whisperer, ...

You can order an ice cream like a taxi Friday, and the truck will show up with it. 

Day two of air flow testing in the NYC subway and around the city is happening Friday, the NYPD announced. 

Is heat to blame for commuter rail failures? Atlanta's planned new transit line is already sparking business. A Texas crackdown on 'curbstoning,' painted buses in L.A. and Lagos, and much more. 

NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg issued an executive order Wednesday requiring all new government facilities to be designed in a way that encourages physical activity, like taking the stairs. He wants to help the rest of the city do the same with new legislation and a new academic center. It's all part of a push to spread a philosophy called Active Design. 

NY becomes the first transit agency to issue catastrophe bonds. Minnesota's Metro Transit turns to high tech data science to predict fare evaders and foil their freeloading. Mass. Sen...

Riding the G train could make a little more sense by the end of the year and wait times could drop if proposals released Monday by the NY MTA are implemented.

The rental car company Enterprise continues to expand into car and ride sharing through acquisition. This time, the industry giant picked up five year-old Zimride that helps people carpool on longer distance rides.

International travel is up, and so are the wait times at airports to pass through customs. (See chart below)

The NYPD and researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratories will release a harmless gas through 21 subway lines as part of a plan to monitor air flows and chart potential responses...

New York State Police will use special undercover SUVs to catch distracted drivers as part of a summer crackdown starting this July 4th holiday weekend.

New York is trying a new tactic to stop teens from texting and driving: suspend their licenses after a first offense. 

The Federal Aviation Administration has begun gathering information into a helicopter that was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River on Sunday. 

[UPDATED July 1, 2pm] SBS bus service started Sunday along Webster Avenue connecting the Fordham and Morrisania sections of the Bronx with the No. 2, 5 and 6 subway trains in the South Bronx.

Chicago opened its bike sharing program Friday. By next spring, the city will have 400 stations and 4,000 bikes, making it one of the largest in the U.S.

Anthony Foxx, the young mayor of Charlotte, N.C., has been unanimously confirmed to be the new Secretary of Transportation by the U.S. Senate.

UPDATED 4:15 p.m. The world's busiest bus facility, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC, could face a major overhaul or even a replacement. 

Amtrak wants a quarter of all new hires to be military veterans by 2015. The national rail network says it's not only a public service -- but also because veterans have the specialized skills is needs.

New York's bike share program is barely a month old, and users are already developing ways to communicate faulty equipment to each other -- and to the city.

Resilient communities require more than sea walls and sand dunes, but also friends and morals.