Kate Hinds

Senior Producer, All Of it

Kate Hinds appears in the following:

TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

A strike was averted and AC Transit buses are rolling in the Bay Area today. Street safety is becoming an issue in the NYC mayoral campaign. A cardboard cutout of a police officer is ...
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Young Adults: We're Just Too Busy to Get Driver's Licenses, Says Survey

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

WNYC

Kids today: they just don't drive like they used to. There's been speculation as to what's behind the national decline in driving. Now, a new survey asked hundreds of unlicensed people just why they're not queuing up at the DMV. Here's what they said.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

The number of protected bike lanes in the U.S. doubled last year. In NYC, Taxi hail apps are being used in places where cabs have been traditionally hard to find. AC Transit bus worke...
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Pedestrian Fatalities On the Rise Nationwide

Monday, August 05, 2013

Even as overall traffic fatalities decrease, newly released 2011 data shows it's becoming more dangerous to be a pedestrian. According to the DOT's National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, 4,432 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in 2011.  Pedestrians were among the few categories of road users where deaths rose, accounting for 14 percent of total traffic fatalities in 2011, up three percent from 2010.

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Voice Tunnel: The Movie

Monday, August 05, 2013

Didn't get to visit Voice Tunnel this weekend? There's always next Saturday. In the meantime, watch this video to get a sense of what the experience is like.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Monday, August 05, 2013

London is experiencing a pedestrian boom. Maryland will use a public-private partnership to build the Purple Line. A driver deliberately plowed into people on the Venice boardwalk. Mi...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Friday, August 02, 2013

BART unions have filed a strike notice. A baby was born in a D.C. Metro station. Norovirus struck dozens of passengers during a 13-hour Chile-to Australia Qantas flight. Suburbs are n...
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Your R Train Tunnel Outage Survival Guide. BONUS: Fun Flowchart

Thursday, August 01, 2013

WNYC

Wondering how to get to work next week when the R Train stops running between Manhattan and Brooklyn? We've got you covered with a list of all the options and a handy, printable, subway flow chart.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Thursday, August 01, 2013

A strike is halting dozens of bus lines in the Phoenix area -- and a second BART strike is looming large in the Bay Area. Republicans pulled a transportation funding bill from the Hou...
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That Device May Be Hands-Free, But Your Brain Is Still Engaged

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The auto industry has become a technological arms race on four wheels, with manufacturers and app developers furiously working to make cars as connected as smartphones. But just because something is voice-controlled doesn't mean your brain can multitask behind the wheel.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

D.C. Metro employees are jamming emergency intercoms because the noise is annoying. The driver involved in last week's Spanish train disaster was on the phone when the crash took pl...
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During R Train Outage, a Ferry Alternative - Briefly

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

WNYC

The coming outage of the R train tunnel under the East River will inconvenience straphangers from Bay Ridge and Sunset Park. A ferry will serve as a low-cost option, but not for very long. 

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Fast Forward: Monthly NYC Fare Card Could Hit $168 by 2023

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

New York's MTA is planning for a future of raising fares every two years. While the MTA won't put a dollar amount on what that will look like, the Straphangers Campaign has no such compunction. According to their calculations, in ten years the current cost of a monthly MetroCard will go from $112 to $168.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Experts are picking apart the transpo plans of NYC mayoral candidates. Because of an unexpected budget windfall, D.C. students will get to ride Metro buses for free. 27% of Houston te...
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NYC Official: Citi Bike NOT Coming to Queens in September

Monday, July 29, 2013

In a sign of how popular bike share has become, Jimmy Van Bramer, the council member from Long Island City, said in no uncertain terms Monday that Citi Bike would come to his district in September.  But the New York City DOT says that's not the case.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Monday, July 29, 2013

Software experts have figured out how to hack cars. British police are going after sexual harassment on transit. A New Jersey town is using decoy pedestrians. And the Chevy Impala did...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Friday, July 26, 2013

The driver in the Spanish train crash -- who openly boasted about speeding -- has been arrested. The Port Authority overpaid its insurance premiums for years before noticing. San Fran...
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NJ Turnpike Nation's Most Profitable Toll Road: Report

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Four of the seven most profitable roads in North America are in the Northeast, according to an industry report. And New Jersey's iconic Turnpike tops the list.

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NY MTA Chief on Airport Rail, Citi Bike, and Second Avenue Subway

Thursday, July 25, 2013

The head of the nation's largest transit system spent almost half an hour fielding questions on everything from subway countdown clocks to a rail link to LaGuardia to whether or not the MTA should be controlled by NYC's mayor.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Investigators are eyeing driver error in a rail crash in Spain that's killed at least 78. The NJ Turnpike raised the most revenue of any toll road in North America in 2012. Perfluoroc...
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