Don't Panic: Planes Are Still Safer Than Cars
A fatal plane crash in Northwest Iran has left 168 people dead. The Caspian Air flight was headed from Tehran to the Armenian capital of Yerevan; it crashed 16 minutes after departure. Caspian, a...
View ArticleNew Fuel Efficiency Standards to Save Oil, Cut Pollution
The federal government announced its first ever mandatory limits for particular greenhouse gas emissions, as the EPA and the Department of Transportation announced new emissions rules for automobiles...
View ArticleAsh Cloud's Economic Fallout Reverberates Throughout Globe
Four hundred tons of flowers sat rotting in the cold room of an airport in Kenya over the weekend, waiting to be shipped to Europe. These flowers are among the first collateral damage of the Icelandic...
View ArticleObama Holds National Infrastructure Meeting
President Obama meets today with governors and mayors from around the nation to talk about “investing in America’s infrastructure.”The meeting comes just after Republican New Jersey Governor Chris...
View ArticleFrom Donkey to 'Tuk-Tuk': Transportation in Bethlehem
Come Christmas, few modes of transportation are as iconic as the donkey. No nativity scene is complete without one — how else would Mary and Joseph gotten to the manger? It turns out that the donkey is...
View ArticleWill Shanghai's Auto Show Eclipse New York's?
As potential car buyers flock to the New York International Auto Show this week, some industry bigwigs are skipping the annual American show for another auto event — in Shanghai. The Chinese auto show...
View ArticleHow Superhighways Changed America — For Better and Worse
It’s hard to imagine it now, but in the mid-1920s, the U.S. only had 250 routes for cars. Today, there are more than 55,000 auto bridges, close to 4 million miles of road, and an intricate system of...
View ArticleTotal Ban on Cellphone Use Behind the Wheel Planned for Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will be the first place in the country to ticket drivers for using their cellphones at all, even hands-free devices. Police won’t pull anyone over for talking on a cell,...
View ArticleRail Safety Questions Raised After NY Train Derails
Investigators have found that the Metro-North commuter train that crashed in Bronx on Sunday—which killed four and injured more than 60 people—was speeding.The train was travelling at around 82 miles...
View ArticleThe Political Impact of a Blizzard | The Divided Households of Downton Abbey...
The Political Impact of a Blizzard | Olympian Jazmine Fenlator: From Track Start to Bobsled Pilot | Extremists Capture Parts of Key Iraqi Cities | Award Season Premiere: Great Films You May Have Missed...
View ArticleTragedy on the Yangtze River
Hundreds are missing after a Chinese cruise ship capsized on the Yangtze River on Monday night.The captain and the chief engineer of the Oriental Star were taken into police custody, though both blamed...
View ArticleStucknation: Tunnels, Paladino on Homosexuality, Christie's Rise
WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly talks about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's decision to suspend construction on the ARC tunnel; Carl Paladino's controversial remarks about homosexuals; and how local...
View ArticleLIRR Riders Face Major Weekend Disruptions
“Don’t take the train!”That’s the message, more or less, for Long Island Rail Road riders this weekend.The LIRR will run just one-third the number of trains it usually does this week and large parts of...
View ArticleNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie Kills Hudson River Train Tunnel For Second...
Gov. Christie first canceled the $8.7 billion tunnel first on October 7, citing potential cost overruns for which he said the state had no way to pay. The following day, he agreed to look at ways to...
View ArticleHop On A Vintage MTA Train Or Bus This Month
If you're waiting on the M train platform any Sunday this month, you might be transported back to the 1930s. That's because the M.T.A. is once again running its vintage steel subway cars along the M...
View ArticleSevere Weather Service Changes in NYC Area
NYC SubwayDowntown 1 Train service is bypassing the Dyckman St StationUptown 2 train service is running express between the East 180th Street Station and the Wakefield-241st Street Station.5 train...
View ArticleInterstate of the Union
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC reporter and director of the "Transportation Nation" blog, talks about Obama's plans for transport as laid out in the State of the Union address.
View ArticleT. Boone Pickens On Our Energy Future
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, T. Boone...
View ArticleNYC's Chief Digital Officer
Chief digital officer for New York City Rachel Sterne discusses the MTA app competition and other tech projects in the works to make the city function better.
View ArticlePort Authority Proposing Fare Increases
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC reporter and director of the Transportation Nation blog, discusses the proposed steep fare and toll increases by The Port Authority of NY and NJ and metro-area politician’s...
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