Kate Hinds

Senior Producer, All Of it

Kate Hinds appears in the following:

TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Monday, September 09, 2013

NYC kids head back to school today -- and so too do the city's first speed cameras. States are lining up to oppose the American-US Airways merger. The Port Authority sold naming right...
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Queens, Brooklyn Get Bus Boosts—Including Faster Ride to LaGuardia

Friday, September 06, 2013

Remember when the MTA had to slash bus service in 2010 to close a budget gap? Now the agency is in a moment of growth, and it's not only restoring some of that cut service, it's adding new bus lines starting Sunday in Brooklyn and Queens.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo Links from Around the Web

Friday, September 06, 2013

Mexico City's traffic is teeth-grindingly challenging. Boston is re-energizing a dormant rail line. BART and its labor unions are back to sniping at each other. Seattle may use its sp...
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Subway Kittens Land on All Four Paws in Brooklyn

Thursday, September 05, 2013

The kittens whose sheer cuteness caused subway service at one New York City station to grind to a halt last week are now living the good life in Bushwick — at least for the next month or so. Potential adopters, start your engines. 

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NYC Trumpets 2012 Street Statistics: More Transit, Less Traffic

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Redesigning New York City streets to be more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly doesn't hurt car travel times. That's according to a new report quantifying the streetscape-changing efforts of the Department of Transportation.

To put it in other terms: transit ridership is up, traffic is down, and there's been a 58 percent increase in cycling since 2008.

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LIST: 2013 TIGER Grants Winners

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Kansas City's streetcar, Atlanta's BeltLine, and Rochester's Inner Loop all won big in the latest round of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants.

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VIDEO: Pennsylvania Congressman Takes a Ride in a Driverless Car

Thursday, September 05, 2013

The chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee rode shotgun on a 33-mile driverless car jaunt.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo Links from Around the Web

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Leaky water is plaguing D.C.'s Red Line. Maryland's MARC trains will soon run on weekends. A task force is picking apart Chicago's transit system. Taxi speeds are up in Manhattan's bu...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo Links from Around the Web

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

The 'MTA has two sets of books' canard rose again at last night's NYC mayoral debate. Boston is getting far less Homeland Security funding than it requested. Texas says its San Antoni...
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New York's Bike Lobby Now Has a Mayoral Candidate

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Bill de Blasio, who once applauded a move to halt a bike lane in Brooklyn, has won the endorsement of a prominent lobbying group that represents cycling advocates and other street safety concerns. 

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo Links from Around the Web

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge -- yes, the one with the cracked bolts -- is now open. A London skyscraper is emitting a car-melting beam of light. Road rage is on the rise, at...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo Links from Around the Web

Thursday, August 15, 2013

WNYC

Sorry El Paso, no funding for bike share...Ford pays C-Max owners on false mileage claims, how Citi Bikes are balanced, and Thompson's taxi medallion plan is....better than nothing. 

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Ten Months After Sandy, 'Black Water' Cleansed, Hoboken Terminal Bathrooms Are Back

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

When Sandy flooded the historic Hoboken Terminal, among the casualties were the indoor restrooms. Ever since, passengers have had to use port-a-johns outside the terminal. But the wait for a permanent bathroom is over.

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Some Police Departments Embrace Body Cameras

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Now that a federal judge has declared New York's stop-and-frisk unconstitutional, some patrol officers will be strapping on judicially-mandated body cameras. It's a first for the NYPD — but other police departments across the country are already using the technology.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

It's a series of tubes: the theoretical Hyperloop was unveiled. Bay Area Bike Share will launch on August 29. SunRail is showing off its new passenger rail cars. Rural Rwandans are bu...
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TIMELINE: NYC's Uncertain Bike Share Expansion

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

New York's Citi Bike is already the biggest bike share program in the country, but it was supposed to be bigger by now. A lawsuit between Citi Bike's operator and its insurance company could slow progress further. Throughout the launch process expansion plans and projections have shifted. We compile them here in an interactive timeline. 

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Judge Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Unconstitutional

Monday, August 12, 2013

To oversee the reforms, the judge appointed an independent monitor, attorney Peter Zimroth. The judge added that "the Monitor's duties...will be no broader than necessary to end the c...

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Explainer: The Stop-and-Frisk Policy

Monday, August 12, 2013

A federal judge struck down the city's stop-and-frisk policing tactic as unconstitutional on Monday. Here is what you need to know.

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Bloomberg Blasts Stop-and-Frisk Ruling

Monday, August 12, 2013

Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out at a judge's ruling finding the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional.

"This is a very dangerous decision," he said, "made by a judge that does not understand how policing works and what is compliant with the Constitution as determined by the Supreme Court."

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Monday, August 12, 2013

A California judge has blocked a BART strike -- for now. The NYPD broke up a dance party on the Manhattan Bridge. The founder of Tesla reveals design plans for his hyperloop transit s...
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