The plan to build a third airport in the metropolitan Chicago area to relieve congestion in the two existing airports will not work. In fact, it will only add to the problem because the congestion is ...

Midsummer is a time when outdoor museums in the area can transport you and your family back to simpler times in Illinois. Two such museums, both an hour or more from Chicago, are having special events ...

Futurists in the ’40s and ’50s illustrated the “world of tomorrow” with monorails or personal rocket cars or backpacks that would jet us from the front porch to the office. That world of tomorrow was ...

MBTA officials have approved expanding an ongoing project to rebuild older Commuter Rail locomotives, an effort which is supposed to add 20 years to their lifespans. The contract with Motive Power, ...

Easton and Phillipsburg were once great railroad towns serviced by five passenger railroads, three of which directly served New York City. Rodney Fisk wants to bring some of that greatness back. To do ...

The half-empty commuter train rocks gently as it rolls north through Dade County alongside Interstate 95. “Look at this,” says Tri-Rail passenger Chris Burt, pointing at the line of cars on I-95.

The last of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s (BART) most problem-plagued 1990s-era C2 cars has left the building. The C2s, built by Morrison-Knudsen, had more than their share of ...

The Maryland Transportation Authority, pinched by the need to lend money for the Baltimore area’s light-rail line, is restructuring its bond payments, driving up interest costs by an estimated $43 ...

WASHINGTON — An attorney for Lake Roland-area residents who oppose the Baltimore light-rail line has renewed his charge that Maryland officials are evading federal environmental laws to build the ...