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A proposed 43-mile route would connect North Carolina’s Johnston, Wake and Durham counties. Total cost could top $2 billion, with the feds paying half. The trains could carry as many as 12,000 people a day.

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The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners is eyeing a new transit development plan. Foursquare Integrated Transportation, Inc. was contracted to develop it.

Editors note: this story has been updated to reflect changes to an ordinance on a ban for conversion therapy. The Transcript regrets the error.

Oklahoman High-capacity commuter rail lines converging in downtown Oklahoma City and including service to Will Rogers World Airport have taken a step toward being realized. Endorsement by the Regional Transportation Authority board on Wednesday of the RTAs Transit System Plan was one of two major developments this week. The Legislature passed and sent to the governor a measure to limit liability for transit system partners such as railroads that contract to allow commuter trains to operate o...

It’s that last part Philadelphia never managed to get right. The fares and operations on SEPTA’s regional system were never adjusted to the RER idea. Say someone arrives on Amtrak at 30th Street Station and then wants to head to Temple University. It’s $5.25, more than twice the regular transit fare, for the 15-minute ride through the Center City tunnel. Moreover, “sometimes crew changes are done in the regional rail tunnel, so you could wait,” explained Christopher Puchalsky, of Phil...

This was one of GGWash’s most popular articles in 2020. We’re sharing some of our hits again over the holiday season. The Greater Washington region is home to some of the worst traffic and longest commutes in the country, and that’s especially true in Southern Maryland. In 2017 alone, commuters in Charles County spent an average of 388 hours traveling to and from work, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of U.S. Census data. That adds up to nearly two and a half weeks, narrowly beating...

New york and new jersey, they found that new york citys transit plans for severe storms is detailed in five binders, each 3 inches thick. new jerseys transit plan, 3 1/2 pages with everything blacked out. >> my pledge to you tonight is i will govern with the spirit of sandy. as the so-called knockout game and black-on-black crime dominated headlines this year, one story fell by the wayside, the scourge of white crime across the country. whites attacking other whites. we took a hard look at the...