(Washington, DC — WAMU) Compared to major U.S. metropolitan areas, Washington D.C. is one of the best when it comes to the choices available to commuters who want to avoid the congestion of the Beltway. We have the Metro, buses, and a new, popular bike share program. Compared to other cities across the globe, however,…
(Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF) Houston City Council staffers had to set up spillover rooms for hundreds of airline employees and executives who converged on City Hall for a contentious meeting on a proposed international hub at Hobby Airport. Southwest Airlines wants to build a $100 million international terminal at Hobby, the smaller of the…
Top Stories on TN: New York reveals locations for lower Manhattan bike share docks, we’ve got the details (link) NY Governor Cuomo releases the names of who will be making decisions on big infrastructure projects (other than him) (link) but doesn’t give any hint how he’ll fund the $5.2 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project (link)…
A coalition of approximately 200 union members and people from the Occupy movement shut down the Golden Gate Ferry for eight hours today. The ferry serves approximately 6,000 daily between Marin County and San Francisco. The protest was initially set to close down the Golden Gate Bridge, but the union coalition worked with Occupy members…
(Washington, DC – WAMU) Loudoun County officials say Phase 2 of the Metro Dulles rail project known as the Silver Line may be delayed. Phase 1 is expected to be completed in August 2013, but disputes over funding and the potential use of union labor are jeopardizing Phase 2, which would connect Reston, Va. to…
President Barack Obama is getting pointed on the transportation bill. Speaking at the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department Conference today, Obama whacked the Republican-led House of Representatives for “refusing to pass a bipartisan bill that could guarantee work for millions of construction workers. Already passed the Senate. Ready to go, ready to put folks…
(New York, NY – WNYC) The Transport Workers Union Local 100 is criticizing the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s decision to take $50 million from New York University to clear out of 370 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn and make way for a new school of applied science. Union president John Samuelson said the authority should…
(Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF) As we’ve reported, a new study quantifies how much American’s will save, in money and pollution, from higher-mileage cars hitting the roads. Well, the state that tops the list of savings is the oil state itself, Texas. The report by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that U.S. drivers…
Climbing into a taxicab in Washington, D.C. doesn’t guarantee a pleasant ride. The cab may be old or dirty, the cabbie may not know his way around, and the rider better carry cash. City leaders say the current state of the taxi industry is embarrassing to a capital city visited by 20 million tourists annually.
(New York, NY – WNYC) It’s been a long wait for a South Bronx neighborhood that heard promise after promise about how parkland that became parking garages would one day be replaced. That day is now here. Five years after the city of New York allowed a heavily used set of baseball diamonds to be…
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