Metro officials will now decide how to close a $66 million gap in the agency's operating budget, after a week of town-hall meetings across the region in which riders gave their input on such major cost-cutting proposals as ending bus lines and...

News • May 23rd, 2011

More than 600 people were injured, two critically, when a packed passenger train collided with another train in Soweto late yesterday afternoon.

News • May 23rd, 2011

Dozens of South African passengers were injured when two crowded commuter trains collided head-on in Soweto near Johannesburg on Thursday evening.

News • May 20th, 2011

A bomb threat at the Martinez Amtrak station Thursday afternoon shut down Amtrak's Capitol Corridor rail line in both directions, delaying commuters and stranding about 100 first-graders on a field trip for more than an hour.

News • May 20th, 2011

A man pulled a pocket knife on a 3-year-old boy riding a Metro Transit bus on Monday afternoon and threatened to cut the boy's finger, according to police and the boy's mother.

News • May 20th, 2011

The Lagos State government may have settled for the purchase of 15-year-old subway cars from Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to use on the city's light rail mass transportation project now under construction.

News • May 20th, 2011

Amtrak has increased police and K-9 patrols and track inspections since documents seized from Osama Bin Laden's compound revealed al-Qaida planned to derail trains in the U.S., the railroad's top official said Tuesday.

News • May 19th, 2011