Subway Transportation Industry

Los Angeles is as famous for its traffic congestion as it is for its sunsets and palm trees, and it has paid a steep price, in smog and gridlock, for its love affair with cars. Belated attempts to devise a functional public transit system have run up...

During the epic battle of Long Island in August 1776, George Washington hoodwinked the British by ferrying his troops to Manhattan from what was then called the Town of Brooklyn, leaving an empty campsite behind. Since then, escapism has moved in the...

NEW YORK (AP) _ New York city officials are investigating a contractor for how it paid its workers on a subway construction project. M.A. Angeliades is working with an independent monitor on a $94 million contract to renovate a downtown Manhattan subway...

Editor's note: Amanda Joyce moved to New York from Hinsdale four years ago. To an outsider, any city can be intimidating. Many Downstaters dread the thought of venturing into Chicago, so they don't. And what a shame, because especially at this time of...

Owners of the World Trade Center site scaled back designs for a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday and delayed other projects by several years, but said costs will still be more than $1 billion over budget. In a widely awaited 70-page report on...

A leading business group is pushing a plan to build a light rail line between Woodlawn and East Baltimore that would include substantial tunneling to go underneath downtown and neighborhoods opposed to surface tracks. The Greater Baltimore Committee...

Subway hero Wesley Autrey is turning his attention to saving children from the dangers of the street. Autrey announced Friday that he is forming a foundation to help rescue children from guns, drugs, gangs and violence. The construction worker was...

The cobblestone streets, turn-of-the-century row houses, and industrial buildings that characterize Red Hook, which has been shaped by years of relative isolation from the rest of Brooklyn, often surprise first-time visitors. It's this well-preserved...

The commuter rail service known as Metrolink -- Southern California's only true regional mass transit carrier -- gets little money and even less political respect. It is guided by a board weighted with officials from small cities across five counties,...

In a surprising and ambitious move, local transportation officials said Tuesday that they would pursue planning for two subway lines to the Westside, with one train along Wilshire Boulevard and a shorter leg partially following Santa Monica Boulevard...

As the Baltimore Ravens kick off their preseason home schedule tonight, thousands of Ravens fans who formerly relied on state-operated express buses to get to the games are scrambling to find transportation that doesn't involve parking at or near M&T Bank...

It's hard to believe that less than 70 years ago, steam locomotives barreled down 10th Avenue flagged by cowboys on horseback. The West Side Cowboys, as they were called, galloped bravely in front of the train to warn pedestrians of imminent danger,...