Tag: Public Transportation

Seattle announced in early May it would permanently close 20 miles of streets to most car traffic. The initiative started as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Energy and Environment

Cities look to open up streets to pedestrians forever post-pandemic

Abby Smith · June 2, 2020 4:00 am

Ten suspected MS-13 gang members charged in murder and crime plots in New York

Anna Giaritelli · May 15, 2020 5:09 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Coronavirus may have spread in NYC via cars, not the subway

David Hogberg · May 1, 2020 3:00 am

Beltway Confidential

New York City, epicenter of coronavirus in US, is just now getting around to disinfecting subway trains daily

Becket Adams · April 30, 2020 5:03 pm

‘Problem of his own making’: Metro Transportation Authority hits de Blasio over homeless issues on subway

Madison Dibble · April 28, 2020 9:19 pm

Is mass transit dead?

Nicole Gelinas · April 17, 2020 3:00 am

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Beltway Confidential

A cautionary tale about misinformation in the age of coronavirus

Becket Adams · April 3, 2020 8:52 pm

In this Thursday, June 18, 2015 photo, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train makes it's way along a curved portion of track, in Boston. Public transportation has long been hailed as a surefire remedy for traffic congestion, but many of the nation's largest mass transit systems are struggling.

Entire train shut down after man in Boston allegedly licked it

Zach Halaschak · March 27, 2020 8:44 pm

DC deemed ‘predatory’ after raking in more than $1B in traffic fines

Madison Dibble · February 21, 2020 8:20 pm

WATCH: Thanksgiving dinner served to passengers on NYC subway

Zach Halaschak · November 26, 2019 2:51 pm

'We're doing this because climate change is real': NYC intentionally floods Brooklyn subway station

Ellie Bufkin · November 22, 2019 6:17 pm

A Bay Area Rapid Transit train arrives at a station Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in Oakland, Calif.

'You're going to jail': Police handcuff and cite black man for eating sandwich on train platform

Madison Dibble · November 11, 2019 11:28 am