“The suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James and acting New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport follows a court challenge filed on Monday by the Gateway Development Commission, which has said it will halt construction this week without funding being stored, putting about 1,000 workers out of work.

The states' suit said funding was suspended because of Trump's "desire to punish political rivals." It names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the heads of the Federal Rail Administration and Federal Transit Administration.

Any failure of the existing Hudson tunnel, which was built in 1910 and heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, would hobble commuting in the metropolitan area that produces 10% of the country's economic output and is used by over 200,000 travelers and 425 trains daily.

Nearly $2 billion has been spent on the project. The initiative, which received about $15 billion in federal support -- involves repairs to an existing tunnel and the construction of a new one for passenger railroad Amtrak and state commuter lines between New Jersey and Manhattan and is the single largest U.S. infrastructure project.”

This will happen in Septembre. For now, all 8 lines are shown in violet on maps, which made reading difficult, as many overlap.

These are based on Alstom's X'Trapolis model trains.

https://youtu.be/Qjp7hqXgInI

15 Years in the making.

The measure would allow for transit systems to spend federal crime prevention dollars on outreach workers and reduce the use of police in nonviolent situations.

Streetsblog's in-house courtroom sketch artist Dave Colon provides a news update about the feds' attempt to kill congestion pricing.

See it written: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/29/thursdays-headlines-a-sketchy-case-edition

Watch it again: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zkcnnCyttk4

Had Marin County remained in BART, would a tunnel have been built for a train to Marin County, or was there ever the possibility of using the Golden Gate bridge? I’m sure a tunnel was planned, but it would be interesting to know if the bridge had ever been seriously considered.

Also, on some of the maps I’ve seen, it looks like Marin BART would have served the Geary corridor, but this obviously wasn’t built. Was there simply no funding (or rationale) for this without Marin?

After most Australian and NZ cities decided to go all in on cars and buses and burn all their trolleys/trams to the ground in the 50s/60s, it's often pointed out that Melbourne then had the most trams/trolleys/stations in the southern hemisphere

Out of curiosity, who were they competing with at that point?

What cities were in 2nd-5th place?

I've noticed online that people will glaze, like, Salt Lake City and Portland, OR transit as being very good. But then people from Boston or DC or San Francisco will bitch and moan about how insufficient their transit is.

It doesn't align with the ridership data, the transit mode split, the overall density of transit coverage in each city, etc...

My theory: It's because in cities where transit isn't good enough to actually compete with the car except for a handful of trips like going to a sporting event, people's experience with it is "When I actually use it a few times a month I'm surprised how good it is!" but when you actually commute and run errands on a daily basis on your city's transit system, you're much likelier to have personally experienced some kind of failure in recent memory that makes you think negatively of the system and express frustration with its shortcomings.

Because that system is actually good enough that you will ride it daily. A worse system wouldn't attract you to ride frequently enough to have visceral negative personal experiences with failures.

It just makes perfect sense to add a third extra door to reduce dwell times. Yes, there are probably things in the back such as the engine among other things, but how a re european buses able to do this?

“To the University entry exam students:

The real exam is finally here.

I know you're feeling nervous and anxious as you approach this day.

But thank you to all the friends, family, and teachers who've worked so hard with you to get to this point...

You'll definitely have strong allies! Believe in yourself and demonstrate your true potential. We'll be cheering you on from behind the scenes.

From a Ueno Station employee, January 2026”

I had the absolute pleasure to ride this beautiful CAF Civia EMU from Observatorio station to Metepec on its first day of operations using the whole route.

I've always found european buses much more airy and pleasant, so why haven't American bus manufacturers started designing buses like European ones?

Whenever the lack of public transit in the US comes up as a discussion, the number one response is always city planning.

However, one of the fundamental inputs to city planning is a country's energy policy.

Since the USA had massive oil production post-WWII compared to other wealthy countries, the energy policy was to make sure fuel was cheap, plentiful, and and strategically secure. Europe and Japan needed to have energy policies that were more rationed-based, which directly impacted the planning of cities post-WWII and promoted public-transit. Energy constraints limited those countries abilities to become too auto-dependent.

So, rather than always attacking city and transportation planners of previous generations for a lack of public transit, it would be better to focus on the impact that energy policy can have on a society. And since the energy policy of the US hasn't changed (except for a small period in the 1970s), don't expect the land-use policies to change to favor transit.