Jonathan Mertzig was wary when Madison rolled out a fleet of 62 electric buses in the fall of 2024. The city had tested a few of them four years earlier, and it had not gone well. Winter in Wisconsin ...

It’s news that could pass for satire: LA’s Department of Transportation is urging riders not to poop on city buses. As policy goes, the “please don’t” approach is a stinker. Mayor Karen Bass, the City ...

Just when Los Angeles’ long-suffering transit riders thought they’d seen it all. Not only are the city’s buses considered unreliable, unsafe and riddled with drug users, it seems they’ve also got a ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made "fast and free buses" a defining promise of his administration, framing the proposal as both an affordability measure and a long-overdue fix for a bus ...

Ms. Almanza is the executive director of Partners for Justice, a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public defense. Free buses? Really? Of all the promises that Zohran Mamdani made during ...

The mayor is seeking the governor’s help in making bus service free when the New York City area plays host to the soccer tournament this summer. By Stefanos Chen and Benjamin Oreskes Benjamin Oreskes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electric vehicle charging stations are seen at a Sheetz in Hillsborough, N.C., Dec. 29, 2023. Photo: Alan Wooten / The Center ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Arctic blast that snowed in much of the East exposed not only the need for road salt but the possibility that untold taxpayer dollars were wasted on risky electric bus subsidy programs ...

Some transit advocates are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to subsidize bus fares and argue the money would be better spent on a major subway expansion. A map of the New York City subway system ...

Los Angeles Metro admitted to pulling buses with ads promoting First Lady Melania Trump’s new documentary off busy roads over vandalism concerns. The transit authority said buses featuring the ads for ...

Officials with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) said Wednesday they decided to re-assign buses with the posters from the "Melania" documentary to different areas ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- At the same time Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants free buses in New York City, the city's losing close to $1 billion dollars in fare evasion a year. Eyewitness News captured just how ...