RIPTA bus (photo by Trisha Crabb via Flickr)
Ford is recalling over one million older pickup trucks because their fuel tanks can fall off and catch fire. (Financial Times)
Rhode Island’s bus system (RIPTA) faces serious cuts. (AP via NPR)
Only 60 percent of the Metro’s 600 escalators in Washington, D.C. are functioning at any one time. (Marketplace)
Four years after a fatal bridge collapse in Minnesota, half of that state’s bridges rated deficient have been repaired. (MPR)
Teenage nightmare: General Motors is testing a service that allows people to track their vehicle’s location while a family member is on the road. (Detroit Free Press)
Lightning knocked out Long Island Rail Road’s signal system. (WNYC)
A Dutch journalist is being sued by that country’s public transit system after he reported about flaws in a new transit chip card. (CNET)
The MTA opened a new entrance to New York’s Fulton Street subway station. (DNA Info)
New Hampshire has completed 46 miles of a planned 60-mile Northern Rail Trail — a former rail line now converted into a recreational trail. (Washington Post)
