Two veteran workers on the Washington area's transit system were crushed by a maintenance truck Tuesday, the latest in a string of fatalities that has made Metro the most deadly for U.S. transit rail workers in the past five years. Eight ...

The Obama administration asked Congress Tuesday to give the federal government power to oversee the safety of subways, light rail and other urban train systems. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in testimony before a House panel, outlined a plan to give the Federal Transit Administration authority to set ...

There's virtually no federal safety oversight of subways, light rail and other urban train systems and the Obama administration wants to change that, a transportation official said Tuesday. Peter Rogoff, the new head of the Federal Transit Administration, said his agency is prohibited by ...

Millions of passengers in cities across the U.S. ride old subway cars like the ones that crumpled in the deadly crash in the nation's capital. The largest transit systems depend on such cars for more than one-third of their fleets, despite safety ...