BART Is Paying San Francisco Riders Not to Commute During Rush Hour
It's part of a stopgap plan to deal with the service's overwhelming ridership and aging infrastructure.
It's part of a stopgap plan to deal with the service's overwhelming ridership and aging infrastructure.
They're far from decorative.
The Next Station explores London transportation through soundscapes.
In a few short years, travelers will be able to zip along the Northeast Corridor in a brand new fleet of high-speed Amtrak trains.
Everyone loves the idea of a train trip, so why is our railway system so lacking?
Fittingly, it was built to attract visitors to the region’s famous Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
The U.S. is filled with railroads, but we're not using them to their full potential.
A London designer's press-on nails are embedded with an RFID tag to swipe into the London Tube, no transit card required.
A blinking pink light gets passengers' attention.
Not everyone likes museums, so Paris Musées took some of their most famous works to the popular social media platform.
It may look silly, but they do it to keep us safe.
Every year, tram drivers come from around Europe to compete in various challenges.
Just as slow food and slow living movements are becoming the trend, it may be time to decelerate travel too.
Pedestrians can see if a train's coming without looking up.
It takes 85 hours to ride the Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express in its entirety.
Take the world's longest escalator to the longest flight to the longest subway to the longest bridge.
Transit Explorer maps North America’s “fixed-guideway transit” options, like subways, streetcars, commuter trains, and bus-rapid transit.
The Japanese train has two trips a day: One to bring the student to school, and the other to bring her home.
The most romantic way to journey from California to New York might also be the cheapest.
In 1896, two locomotives traveling more than 50 miles per hour smashed into each other. On purpose.
Hold on to your uterus: Early modes of transportation had some fretting that their bodies would be forever changed.