Nation Topics - Transportation | The Nation

If cab drivers in Chicago win their lawsuit to become employees of the city, their jobs will become a lot less terrible.

Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.

Our car-dependent, suburban, homeowner culture is no longer affordable. An exhibit at MoMA examines what to do about it.

 "Even somebody like me can learn how to fight."

Mass transit fares are going up and services are being cut. Meanwhile, federal stimulus money favors new projects over maintaining existing systems.

The greenest way to lift the country out of a deepening recession is to put people to work building mass transit.

The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse government as the provider of public services.

The Minneapolis bridge collapse should prod all presidential candidates, especially Democrats, to come up with real plans to fix our crumbling infrastructure.

Montgomery's transit system isn't segregated anymore. It barely exists.

London's new mayor is Thatcher's old nemesis. Is he also a leading indicator?