I've Had It Up To Here In Fuel Prices!

Fuel prices are skyrocketing up and down these days like a pair of mating trout in the downright disastrous currents of an overflowing river. One minute, like the stock exchange, the price is up by two dollars; then, it drops by fifty cents.

Germany’s public transportation largely operates on the honour system, which makes fare dodging easy.

It seems only yesterday Florida was considered the happiest place in America. A bounty of sun, no state income tax, 700 miles of beaches, Disney World and more new condominiums than speculators could flip.

All Aboard Ohio.org:

At 5:30 a.m. each workday, when Natasha Walker, 22, gets deposited at a bus stop on her side of Little Rock, Ark., she begins her 60-minute wait for the bus that ferries her to a day care worker's job on the other side of town.

A Pennsylvania couple is facing an assortment of criminal charges for having sex on a city bus, carnal activity that was captured by the vehicle’s surveillance camera.  Amanda Confer, 24, boarded the bus on a Friday afternoon in late-August.

The Brookings report shows 42 percent of suburban residents without cars don’t have access to mass transit.

Although she didn't say it right then, Bachmann likely had something specific in mind: Agenda 21, a two-decade-old United Nations agreement that has taken on a life of its own on the far-right.

But, on a recent Monday, I was in the opening stages of a transit odyssey — an attempt to venture from San Francisco to Los Angeles using only public transportation.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced $1.58 billion for 27 transit projects nationwide that will improve public transportation access for millions of Americans while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and curbing air pollution.

On average, bus or tram drivers working for the Flemish public transport company De Lijn miss 18 days at work each year. This exceeds absenteeism rates for people working in the private sector or for the Flemish government, De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad report ...

A radical Islamist group warned Muslims this week to stay away from the Royal Wedding and avoid public transport on Friday. They say the wedding is a "legitimate target" for Al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorists.

A bus driver in Luxembourg city was confronted by a violent passenger on Sunday morning after waking said traveller to tell him the bus had reached its final stop.

So big props to Art Leahy, chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who told me with a straight face that the decision to eliminate two bus lines and scale back about a dozen more will result in better public transit for the people of Los Angeles.

Gasoline prices are spiking and with them the savings for U.S. commuters who rely on public transportation, a transit group said on Friday.

"Something is happening in the tunnels," said Kevin O'Connor, the man responsible for making New Jersey Transit's trains run on time, as he watched the giant map inside the Penn Station Central Control center at 5 p.m. on a recent Tuesday. "I can't get my trains from Sunnyside."

King County Councilman Peter von Reichbauer is calling for a review of proposed advertising on Metro buses that blasts Israel and the U.S., claiming U.S. tax dollars support war crimes. Von Reichbauer says the ads could incite violence.

"Israeli War Crimes," the enormous advertisement reads. "Your tax dollars at work." To the right of the image is a group of children -- one little boy stares out at the viewer, the others gawk at a demolished building, all rebar and crumbled concrete.

In Copenhagen, already one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities, work has begun to turn an extensive network of bike paths into full-fledged cyclist highways in a bid to push more commuters to leave their cars at home.

More than 60 public transport staff have been attacked by fare dodgers in Vienna so far this year, Wiener Linien has announced.

Wednesday was a special day for the residents of Corvallis, Oregon. In an effort to be more "green" hundreds of Corvallis citizens opted to either walk, bike, or take public transit in an effort to reduce vehicular traffic and reduce greenhouse emissions,

Wanna drive through Germany? - Odd traffic signs and regulations - Vol.9 'Giving signs as driver'

If a public transportation bus shows its emergency flashers you are recommended not to pass, else you may pass but only with walking speed - 6 kph.

MUSLIM drivers are forcing blind people and their guide dogs off buses because they consider the animals to be 'unclean', it has been revealed.

Two articles: Bike Sharing Programs Speeding Up in U.S.

An Ode to Public Transportation, or The Freak Show That Turned a 2 Hour Trip Into An All Day Affair.

Flashback to 1992 a bemulleted High School student named Rob Ballew lived and died by the Metro Bus Line to get him back and forth to work and play.