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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 Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability. Or one can do the trip on ...

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 out Virginia’s Fauqier and Stafford counties for the dubious distinction of America’s costliest...

New york and new jersey, they found that new york city's transit plans for severe storms is detailed in five binders, each 3 inches thick. new jersey's 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 issues plaguing the white community in a very important conversation, next.