Subway Transportation Industry

Last Sunday, Opinion ran a bunch of brave, occasionally foolhardy ideas to clean up L.A.'s traffic mess. Readers gave us a spanking and kicked in some ideas of their own. We published some in the paper this week, and we're reprinting them here, along with...

The state could break ground in five years on a new rail or rapid transit line in Baltimore under a transportation plan sent to Congress yesterday -- a plan that nonetheless calls for twice as much money to be spent on roads as on public transit. The...

With caution and great sadness, New York City emerged from its weeklong stupor yesterday as millions returned to work for the first time since the World Trade Center plunged to the ground before their eyes. The morning rush hour was bustling with people,...

WASHINGTON - As sirens blared and clouds of gray smoke wafted across town from the Pentagon - signaling that the nation's capital, like New York, had been attacked by terrorists - hundreds of thousands of people poured out of downtown yesterday in an...

As he fled a breakfast meeting in New York's World Trade Center yesterday morning, trying desperately to outrun the volcanic-like dust that was settling over him, Gary Thorpe watched America change forever. He saw papers flying through the air that...

You think airports are crowded now? Just wait. More than 1.6 billion people world- wide fly annually on business or leisure trips, according to the International Air Transport Assn., an industry group based in Montreal that represents 270 airlines. By...

This battered city struggled to regain the footing of normal life Thursday, but its recovery remained as unsteady as some of the tottering buildings that have hampered workers clearing the rubble of the World Trade Center. As thousands returned to...

Christine Gottesman would usually arrive at her office at the World Trade Center between 8:30 and 9 a.m. But, for reasons she cannot entirely explain, Tuesday was different. When Gottesman and her dog, George, emerged from home for their early-morning...

In its long and storied history, Philadelphia has been everything from the nation's capital to nearly broke. It's seen incredible prosperity and agonizing racial strife, urban decay and a startling renaissance of late. Sounds like Baltimore in a lot of...

Had H. G. Wells been able to visit late-20th century Toronto to do research for his classic novel "The Time Machine," he might have written a different tale. In the "Time Machine," a future Earth segregates into two classes: the affluent, delicate Eloi...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Busy with twin toddlers, a part-time job and a new pregnancy, Cheri Sparacio didn't know many people on Staten Island and still felt like a newcomer after several years of living here. Her husband, Tom, was the Islander; she was from...

The leader of Baltimore's Senate delegation threatened yesterday to withhold support for major Washington-area transportation projects unless the city gets more money for its own transportation needs. Sen. Nathaniel J. McFadden made the pledge after...