Kate Hinds

The latest subject for Werner Herzog -- the filmmaker behind such grueling works as Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man -- is the danger posed by texting while driving.

The federal government is investigating the safety of transporting oil by rail. Excavation for a London train project has turned into a veritable archaeological bonanza. Ann Arbor is ...

New York's guerrilla etiquette artist strikes again.

The federal government is reminding transit agencies to prepare for climate change. Texas is trying to get a handle on its abandoned (and leaking) oil well problem. The railroad invol...

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 ...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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. 

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.

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...

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.

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...