In May, over 1,000 people were rescued after a Brooklyn-bound F train derailed in Woodside, Queens. It came out soon after that the area where the incident occurred, near the 65th Street station, had been marked as a "critical rail break" area; it was the location of 205 broken rails between 2005 and 2012, the second highest in the city during that span.

MTA Metro-North Railroad has selected a health care firm that specializes in sleep disorders to screen all locomotive engineers for sleep apnea, railroad officials announced today.   

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has produced a new on-air public service announcement campaign for New York City Transit buses and the MTA Bus Company to educate bus customers, pedestrians and bicyclists about safety on and around buses.

In the most significant policy change ever undertaken by the Obama administration to strengthen the power of labor unions, a divided National Labor Relations Board issued a long-awaited final rule speeding up the union election process.  The rule will require businesses to postpone virtually all litigation over eligibility issues until after workers vote on whether to join the union, thereby depriving management of a stall tactic that unions widely claim benefits the employer. In effect, regional NLRB directors will be given broad discretion to rule such litigation unnecessary until an election takes place.

While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has claimed that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would create 250,000 jobs, labor researchers say the jobs figures have been vastly distorted. We speak to Sean Sweeney, director and founder of the Global Labor Institute at Cornell University, and Bruce Hamilton, vice president of Amalgamated Transit Union.  

This sustainable mobility app tracks your transport CO2 emissions and helps you balance your travel footprint, using a virtual green currency.  In order to start making more sustainable transportation choices, it's important to understand the amounts of CO2 emissions our current methods of transport are responsible for, whether we drive or cycle or take the bus, and to compare them to our other options, so we're making the greenest choice when we can.

Metra and several major freight railroads on Friday stressed the need to advance the75th Street Corridor Improvement Project (CIP) in Chicago, where freight-rail demand is expected to nearly double over the next 30 years.   

The New York League of Conservation Voters is teaming up with the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce to advocate for the need of a mass transit system to sustain the rapid commercial and residential growth of the North Shore.  The League plans to canvas North Shore transit sites next week to hand out literature and collect signatures for a petition asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio to find funding for the construction of the North Shore Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line.

Railroad lines run all over Indian country - from New York to Washington, from the Dakotas through Oklahoma and clear down to the gulf of Louisiana. Native lands in Oregon, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin, even Alaska; just about everywhere tribal people are familiar with the sound of trains rolling down the tracks as they cut across their reservations, pueblos and villages.