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Kyoto Station
Kyoto may be the 1200-year-old home of Japanese classical arts, but you wouldn't know it when you first get here.Built in 1997 by Hiroshi Hara, Kyoto Station is a stunning living monument to modern...
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Design for the (Japanese) World: Vol. 2
More great design solutions that I wish we could bring back with us to the US:ITEM 1:Say you're shopping in a department store with your toddler and you need to go to the bathroom... where do you stick...
View ArticleAmtrak Derailment Forces LIRR to Cancel Some Trains
A derailed Amtrak train in a New York City tunnel has forced the Long Island Rail Road to cancel 16 rush-hour trains out of Penn Station.Two cars of an Amtrak train derailed around 12:30 p.m. Monday on...
View ArticleSome Grammy Thoughts
Wow. Okay, still sort of marshalling my thoughts about last night’s Grammy Awards, but here goes:Early returns: A nice idea to start with a tribute to Aretha Franklin. But it was WAY too long. Not...
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TN Moving Stories: China Halts HSR Line, Atlanta's Suburbs May Finally Be...
Bike to Work Day, 2010 (photo by greenperalta/Flickr)Today is Bike to Work Day.Atlanta's suburbs may finally be ready to embrace mass transit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)China halted work on a...
View ArticleBrooklyn F and G Train Riders Get Service Back -- for Now
Subway riders from Brooklyn neighborhoods Kensington and Windsor Terrace have gone four months without Manhattan-bound F and Queens-bound G trains. But beginning on Monday, straphangers at 15th...
View Article"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it."
Two high speed trains collided on a bridge in China recently, causing six carriages to fall off the tracks and onto a farm below. Immediately, passengers began using a Twitter-esque site to describe...
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Amtrak On Track for All-Time Ridership Record
(photo by Aaron Hockley via flickr)Amtrak had its single best month ever this July, and the railroad says when it closes the books on September, it will have set ridership records for each of the last...
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Falling
A freak accident on a train platform leads to... romance? Performed by Chet Siegel and Peter McNerney, with Willy Appleman, Louis Kornfeld, Lauren Ashley-Smith, Sebastien Conelli, Quinton Loder, Jon...
View ArticleMetro-North Track Inspected 2 Days Before Derailment, Official Says
An official at the Federal Railroad Administration says the agency inspected the area where a commuter train derailed and collided with another in Connecticut last week just two days before the...
View ArticleFight Over New Jersey Train Derailment Enters Courtroom Phase
The fight over a southern New Jersey train derailment and chemical spill last year is heading to the courtroom.First-responders are filing a lawsuit Wednesday claiming Conrail was negligent in the...
View ArticleExplainer: Your Metro-North Commute Survival Guide
Even though the New Haven Line now has some "bare bones electrical power," Monday's commute will only have half the capacity of a normal one -- and passengers should prepare for crowded conditions....
View ArticleThe Iron Road: Riding and Writing Across America
There's something familiar and appealing about the safe, upholstered compartments of a train cabin as it barrels down an iron track.For decades, writers have found the human energy of a train car the...
View ArticleBomb Trains: The Dangerous Business of Hauling Oil
On Monday, a 109-car freight train carrying more than three million gallons of crude oil from North Dakota derailed in the rural town of Mount Carbon, West Virginia.Hundreds were evacuated as a fire...
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Unhip Means Inexpensive and Quiet in Flatlands, Brooklyn
Before Yvette Chaplin moved from Canarsie to Flatlands she never heard of the neighborhood. She and her husband bought their first home in 2012—a one-story brick house. When they first walked by, she...
View ArticleNew York-Bound Amtrak Train Derails in Philadelphia
An Amtrak train abruptly overturned in Philadelphia, killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others, some of whom had to scramble through the windows of toppled cars to escape. The accident...
View ArticleCould Technology Have Prevented the Amtrak Derailment?
Federal investigators say the Amtrak train that crashed Tuesday was traveling at 106 miles an hour when it jumped the tracks along a sharp curve. The speed limit on the curve is 50 miles an...
View ArticleOfficials Tangle, and Tango, Over Funding for Trans-Hudson Tunnel
A senior Amtrak official says commuters as well as long-distance rail passengers will face even more trouble crossing the Hudson River unless another train tunnel gets built.Stephen Gardner, Amtrak...
View ArticleNew Jersey Transit Strike Looms Over Morning Commute
New Jersey Transit and its unions are caught in negotiations, as workers wield an impending strike starting on March 13. If the strike takes place the New Jersey Transit commuter rail will shut...
View ArticleNew Jersey Transit Eavesdrops on Your Commute
Your next conversation on a New Jersey Transit train might be recorded.New surveillance measures include adding video and audio recording devices to some light rail trains, intended to deter and track...
View ArticleHarlem Fire Leads to Long Delays on Metro-North
New York City commuters should expect long delays and large crowds on Metro-North Wednesday after a four-alarm fire broke out beneath elevated train tracks in East Harlem.At a press conference...
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Train Crash in Hoboken Leads to Questions About Safety
One woman died and 108 people were injured when a rush-hour NJ Transit train crashed at Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning. The wreck renewed questions about whether long-delayed automated safety...
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News Wrap: Russia extends ‘humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo due to evacuation...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: Russia extended a pause in fighting in Aleppo, Syria, for a third day, to allow people to receive aid, that after the U.N. said...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino
Salman Rushdie joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Italo Calvino’s “Love Far From Home,” from a 1995 issue of the magazine.
View Article'It Smells Like Death': Alabama Town Endures NYC 'Poop Train'
A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet - and the "poop train" is just the latest example of the...
View ArticleDespite Social Media Complaints, MTA Says Fewer Hot Subway Cars Now than Last...
A car on the 1 train that Gothamist recently called the hottest subway car in the city is no longer riding the rails. The MTA said car 1872 was replaced, so it could be taken out for service.The news...
View ArticleChina's Railway Expansion
Journalist Will Doig discusses his new book, High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia. Today, China owns a network of 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the...
View ArticleWho Should Enforce the Rules of the Quiet Car?
If you commute by train, you might be one of those people who really savors the quiet car, the designated train car on many commuter lines where you're supposed to keep noise to a minimum. But whose...
View ArticleYour Favorite-Least Favorite Parts of Your Commute
Chances are, if you're in the rhythm of commuting, there are certain things that can happen along the way to brighten your day and other things that can put a damper on your trip.Tell WNYC about both...
View ArticleTransportation News: Congestion Pricing, New Trains Out of Service and More
Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, talks about the latest transportation-related news.
View ArticleThe National Guard in the Subway; Monday Morning Politics; Systemic Racism;...
Coming up on today's show:Richard Davis, president of TWU Local 100, shares his thoughts on Governor Hochul's move to send members of the National Guard to patrol the subways and inspect bags, and how...
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