Kate Hinds

The private tech buses plying the Bay Area highlight the region's income inequality. The Keystone XL pipeline will see some oil in January. Uber uses surge pricing -- as New Yorkers f...

Even an 85 MPH highway can't solve Austin's traffic tangle. New York's MTA is retrofitting train cars to add safety features. Check out a list of the world's most ambitious subway sys...

Many of domain names disgraced official (and close friend of NJ Gov. Chris Christie) David Wildstein purchased involve New Jersey Democrats.

New York's MTA is under increasing scrutiny following this month's Metro-North derailment. It's getting downright weird at the Port Authority of NY/NJ. This American Life looks at car...

The feds' "Operation Quick Strike" has shuttered dozens of passenger bus companies. San Francisco is experiencing a bike boom. In Jakarta, traffic jams can mean economic opportunity. ...

Boston is auditing third rails. The chairman of the Port Authority is remaining uncharacteristically silent. The airline industry is expecting record profits. The Arctic oil race is o...

The Environmental Protection Agency will likely add a site in Queens to the federal Superfund list after finding higher-than-normal levels of radioactivity.

Now the Port Authority's inspector general is investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures. G.M.'s new CEO will be the first woman to lead a major automaker. New Delhi bus...

The federal government lost $10 billion on the G.M. bailout. Snowy owls will be trapped and released -- not shot and killed - at New York area airports. Miami wants a more pedestrian-...

Following last week's fatal derailment, two Senators want trains outfitted with cameras pointing at the engineer. Meanwhile, New York's MTA says it's made some safety upgrades. Today'...

NYC will vastly increase its number of wheelchair-accessible taxis. Lawmakers want railroads to adhere to a 2015 deadline to install Positive Train Control. In 30 years, Georgetown mi...

The Metro-North train that derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring dozens, was equipped with an alarm designed to keep the train operator awake. But that alerter was located at the other end of the train, and engineer William Rockefeller was in the cab.

"It is ironic that even as the death totals have declined dramatically with violent crime in this city, this year the number of people killed on our streets - pedestrian and traffic -- will almost equal the homicide total," said New York City's once and future police commissioner on Thursday.

The Metro-North train that derailed Sunday did not have an alerter system in the cab where the driver apparently dozed off. California's bullet train has been handed another setback. ...

In the wake of Sunday's fatal Metro-North derailment, the federal government sent New York's MTA a strongly-worded letter requiring the transit agency to set up a confidential close call reporting system.

The NTSB ousted the Metro-North engineer's union from its inquiry after the union leader spoke to press. Meanwhile, BART's labor unions are suing the transit agency over a contract di...

Starting next year, Boston's transit system will run until last call -- at least on weekends.

Metro-North Railroad will resume more than 98 percent of its regular Hudson Line service in time for Wednesday morning’s commute following Sunday's massive derailment. According to Governor Cuomo, the railroad was able to clear debris, begin rebuilding tracks and restore one of the three tracks in the area that was not significantly damaged in the accident.

Congress is considering legislation that would double the federal gas tax. Hundreds of people in London staged a "die-in" to protest recent cyclist deaths. No word yet on a BART contr...

UPDATED: Federal investigators say the Metro North commuter train that derailed Sunday was going 82 mph in a 30 mph zone as it rounded a precipitous curve in the Bronx.