Seattle Times: Frustrated passengers leave stalled light-rail train near UW and walk through tunnel
Light-rail passengers left a stalled train Friday night and walked through a tunnel back to the University of Washington station. The train came to a halt as crowds were heading home from Husky Stadium. (Piper Wilton) A severed cable suddenly halted a northbound...
WaPo Opinion: Metrorail needs to fix more than its wheels. It needs to fix its culture.
A train arrives at Federal Triangle Metro station in D.C. on Dec. 1, 2020. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Metrorail, the transit network on which hundreds of thousands of people depended daily before the pandemic, is limping along, a shadow of its once-robust...
NYT: The Holy Grail of Transportation Is Right in Front of Us
Photograph by Florian Buettner/laif, via Redux How might we come upon transportation nirvana? Not through some great technological innovation or a grand infrastructure project. The holy grail is right there in front of us; it’s been right there for decades. All...
NYT: The Subway Needs Riders to Save It. Will They?
Photograph by Ali Kate Cherkis, NYT Billions of dollars in federal aid have pulled New York’s transit agency from the depths of its fiscal crisis. But a growing consensus that its ridership may never return entirely threatens its future. Read Christina...