Study: Housing and transport costs burden SF area

San Francisco Bay area households spend up to two-thirds of their income on transportation and housing costs, a severe burden that leaves workers with insufficient resources for other basic needs, according to a recently-released study.

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DC Metro red line stations open after crash

Metro is reopening all the stations along its red line during the morning and evening rush hours after a crash earlier this week killed nine people.

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For commuters, economic woes pile up

For Dollie Kinkead, the economic turmoil gripping the country translates into an 80-mile drive each work day from a house she can't sell to a job she thinks she's lucky to have.

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Wash. dentist's staff saddles up to beat gas costs

When gas prices hit $4 a gallon, the staff at Dr. Keith Leonard's dental office figured it was time to pony up.

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Study: Drivers on Cells Clogging Traffic

Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study.

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London Commuters Take Usual Journey

Commuters stood shoulder-to-shoulder in packed subway cars and buses on Friday, clutching newspapers that offered an unspoken reminder of the carnage inflicted on London's transit system a year ago.

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Are you contributing to traffic gridlock?

For most of us, our daily routines include an early morning commute to work as well as an equally long commute home. Some of us have long trips, some short. Some of us travel my car, others via public transportation (or a combination of the two).

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Streetlights may make it easier for humans to travel by road, but they could cause a problem for "commuting" bats, say researchers. Scientists have found that, as bats travel to feeding grounds, they avoid hedgerows illuminated by streetlights.

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A cider and vinegar marinade spaghetti sauce spills over highway causing a very sticky situation, pass the bread sticks please!!

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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney said yesterday that he strongly disagreed with President Bush's decision not to pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, saying his former chief of staff had been left "hanging in the wind."

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A rush-hour train or bus is typically soundtracked by the rustle of newsprint, and the tinny beats leaking from headphones. What about those just sitting there doing nothing?

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People who drive Hummers receive almost five times as many traffic tickets as the average driver, according to a new study.

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Remember Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer's long-sought $20 per month tax credit for bike commuters, intended to extend a benefit to cyclists that motorists have received for decades? The measure ridiculed by North Carolina Rep.

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A Better America Without the Automobile

Fellow Americans we must stop investing in roads, highways and parking lots. The automobile must go the way of the horse as an antiquated way of getting around. Find a better way now, before desperation forces us to do so.

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At least the U.S. isn't alone when it comes to idiotic government decisions based on undue special interest influence.

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The New York Times reported this weekend that "[f]elons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests." However the Times noted tha …

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In the coming decades, suburbia may become populated by low-income families, while urban areas are rejuvenated according to New Urbanism, with mixed-use neighborhoods and totally walkable ways of life.

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"In the U.S., as is many other parts of the world, public transportation is subsided by local, state and national governments," said John Collura, a transportation professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "It could be in the order of 60, 70, sometimes 80 percent.

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Some companies now offer car and vanpool services to work. Others encourage employees to take advantage of benefits that are already in place but often go unused, such as tax-free deductions to offset the cost of using public transportation.

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Looking for a rare bit of good Amtrak news? Look no further than Boston (hey it goes to DC, too, folks).

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Imagine driving down the highway amid the typical stream of cars and trucks to suddenly discover millions of bees swarming toward the morning commute.

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Just 48 hours before a state commission is expected to recommend a proposal that would charge drivers an $8 daily fee to enter the area of Manhattan below 60th Street, the panel's chairman, Marc V. Shaw, heard Democratic members of the Assembly speak out against it on Tuesday.

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A new study from the University of Utah shows that drivers yakking on cell phones drive more hesitantly and could be lengthening everyone's commute by 5 to 10 percent.

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Motorists who talk on cell phones drive slower on the freeway, pass sluggish vehicles less often and take longer to complete their trips, according to a University of Utah study that suggests drivers on cell phones congest traffic.

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The city of Seattle has approved one of the nation's most aggressive attempts to raise the popularity of bicycles.

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Buses to save the day?

Commuting via bus is often perceived as an unattractive means of transportation. Reasons for this span from popularity of owning/commuting with a personal vehicle, over-crowded buses, poor comfort as well as a generally negative perception of the bus.

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Solo commuters frustrated by snarled traffic have taken extreme measures to sneak into high-occupancy carpool lanes: costumed mannequins in passenger seats, dolls swaddled like babies--even dogs in bonnets.

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The Ultimate Guide to Commuting by Bicycle

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A death-row prisoner in Texas who did not commit the murder for which he was sentenced but drove the getaway car, received an unusual last-minute reprieve yesterday when the state's Governor, Rick Perry, commuted his punishment to life imprisonment.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," says the preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence. Unless, of course, you are a friend of the president.

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Warning -- This link goes to a PDF of the brief.

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