Topic: Public Transportation
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The financial problems confronting New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority are so "dire" that straphangers might be hit with a fare hike this year, one year sooner than planned. Chairman Jay Walder, speaking at a Webcast news conference on Wednesday after a board meeting, said that while he wanted to stick with the plan of raising bus ...
A man who lost his hand after being dragged by a commuter train two weeks ago in Southern California has been hit by a train again. Police say the man claimed he fell from the platform onto the tracks at the Irvine ...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Vancouver's driverless trains have been steady winners at the Winter Olympics during which passengers have poured on to a transit system that has stretched way beyond expected capacity but not snapped. Vancouver's Translink local transit system says usage has averaged 1.6 million people a day over the Games so far, more than twice the normal ...
