New quest for quiet on New York taxis, buses and trains
October 14, 2015 By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – A pair of initiatives designed to bring more peace and quiet to taxis, buses and trains moving in and about New York City have been set in...
View ArticleBlizzard for record books paralyzes New York and Washington
January 24, 2016 By Barbara Goldberg and Idrees Ali NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A blizzard that has paralyzed much of the U.S. East Coast intensified on Saturday, bringing Washington to a...
View ArticleNJ Transit, unions reach tentative deal to avert strike
March 12, 2016 By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) – A coalition of rail unions reached a contract deal with NJ Transit on Friday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said, averting a possible strike that...
View ArticleNew Jersey Governor Christie halts road, bridge projects
July 1, 2016 By Hilary Russ (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered a halt to non-essential road, bridge and mass transit projects late Thursday after lawmakers failed to reauthorize the...
View ArticleDeal struck for New Jersey gasoline tax increase to fund road projects
July 22, 2016 By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey’s two top Democratic leaders said on Friday that they reached an agreement on raising the state gasoline tax to pay for road, bridge and...
View ArticleNew Jersey crash highlights delays in railway anti-collision system
September 30, 2016 By Nick Carey (Reuters) – A deadly commuter train crash in Hoboken station in New Jersey renews focus on a mandatory anti-collision system that has been plagued with lengthy,...
View ArticleNew Jersey train rams into station, kills bystander, injures 114 others
September 30, 2016 By Frank McGurty and Amy Tennery HOBOKEN, N.J. (Reuters) – A commuter train plowed into a station in New Jersey at the height of Thursday’s morning rush hour, killing a woman on the...
View ArticleNew Jersey train crash turns spotlight on Christie, funding crisis
October 1, 2016 By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – A deadly New Jersey Transit train crash this week has renewed questions about Republican Governor Chris Christie’s hard-nosed approach to a public...
View ArticleInvestigators interview engineer of crashed New Jersey train
October 1, 2016 By Dion Rabouin NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators on Saturday interviewed the engineer of a New Jersey commuter train that smashed into a Hoboken station this week, killing one person...
View ArticleNJ train crash investigators recover data, video recorders
October 4, 2016 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators looking into what caused last week’s fatal New Jersey Transit train crash at Hoboken Terminal have recovered the data and video recorders from the...
View ArticleInvestigators pulling data from recorder of crashed N.J. train
October 5, 2016 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators said on Wednesday they were collecting information from data and video recorders removed from the front car of the New Jersey Transit train that...
View ArticleBrakes were working in New Jersey commuter train crash: report
October 13, 2016 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday the brakes were working on a crowded New Jersey Transit train that crashed...
View ArticleEngineer in New Jersey train wreck later diagnosed with sleep disorder
November 17, 2016 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lawyer for the engineer of a New Jersey commuter train that crashed in Hoboken in late September, killing one person and injuring more...
View ArticleBrooklyn train was speeding before crash: U.S. investigators
January 5, 2017 By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – The commuter train that crashed at a busy New York City terminal on Wednesday appeared to be traveling at more than twice the speed limit, and the...
View ArticleRail accident at N.Y.’s Penn Station snarls travel; minor injuries
March 24, 2017 By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) – A slow-moving Amtrak Acela train derailed and sideswiped a New Jersey commuter train on Friday, causing minor injuries and snarling morning...
View ArticleAnother train derails at New York’s Penn Station, one injured
April 3, 2017 By Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – A slow-moving New Jersey Transit train derailed during rush hour at New York’s Penn Station on Monday, injuring one person in the second such...
View ArticleNew York transit disruption puts brakes on Wall Street workers
April 5, 2017 By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street workers who make fortunes with quick deals and fearless trades faced a threat to their fast-paced work style on Wednesday that could not...
View ArticleHeavy rain, wind disrupts travel for New Yorkers
May 5, 2017 By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) – Heavy, wind-driven rain soaked the New York City area on Friday afternoon, causing local flooding and an array of transportation delays across the...
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New Jersey crash highlights delays in railway anti-collision system
September 30, 2016 By Nick Carey (Reuters) – A deadly commuter train crash in Hoboken station in New Jersey renews focus on a mandatory anti-collision system that has been plagued with lengthy,...
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New Jersey train rams into station, kills bystander, injures 114 others
September 30, 2016 By Frank McGurty and Amy Tennery HOBOKEN, N.J. (Reuters) – A commuter train plowed into a station in New Jersey at the height of Thursday’s morning rush hour, killing a woman on the...
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