This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In cities across America, light rail has become the symbol of ...

Whether you are a resident of Los Angeles or an out-of-state or international student, you’ve almost certainly become familiar with the car-ridden nature of our city. At the same time, you’ve likely ...

What should a proposed LA Metro rail project — which would take passengers over or under the Santa Monica Mountains connecting the San Fernando Valley with L.A.’s Westside — actually look like? Will ...

Metrorail and other subway or “heavy-rail” track systems have special track configurations that can redirect or temporarily store rail cars during maintenance and emergency situations. Metrorail’s ...

Gwinnett County commissioners broke an apparent impasse Tuesday and decided on a transit expansion plan that would include heavy rail in the county. Commissioners still must decide whether to place ...

The San Diego Association of Governments’ new $125 billion blueprint for the years leading up to 2050 is a reaction to ...

Gwinnett County’s long-range plans for transit expansion include a bit of heavy rail after all. Officials said Thursday afternoon that the county’s comprehensive transit plan — the near-finished ...

LA Metro’s ambitious plan to connect San Fernando Valley with the Westside via rail comes down to a choice between an overhead monorail or underground subway, and in a new report based on 3,122 ...

This post was updated Jan 26 at 4:41 p.m. Until a few days ago, evacuation warnings from the Palisades fire bordered the UCLA campus. While the administration has released evacuation plans that ...

For years, the city, regional planners and residents have looked at Roosevelt Boulevard and daydreamed of bringing heavy-rail mass transit to the wide, high-traffic corridor that bisects Lower ...

The MBTA needs to hire another seven heavy rail dispatchers before subway cuts can be revisited, and said for the first time that restoration of prior service levels is also “largely dependent” on ...

The Opposition says the Coast will have permanent traffic gridlock in the south in what Labor calls a “Frankenstein” monstrosity of a transport system created by not finishing light rail. The Bulletin ...