Public transportation

It’s obvious the folks who vote in suburban Gwinnett County, Georgia literally don’t want to be connected to Atlanta and turned down a hook up with MARTA. So no, the transit system will not be extending into the county. When the counting was over, the tally came to 46 percent for the plan, 54 percent […]

A train left a station in Ohio with a baby alone on board. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) released surveillance video Wednesday of the Jan. 12 incident. The video shows the baby’s father brought the child onto the train in a carrier, and while the train was stopped at Windmere station. He placed […]

A California Black bus driver filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the Central Contra Costa Transit Authority.

New Yorker Moise Morancy was just being a Good Samaritan; thankfully the police let him go.

While many racists and conservatives cry about wanting to make America great again, others are here to remind them that this is NOT their grandparents’ civil rights movement. In this day and age, many are learning the hard way that when you step to the wrong person spewing hate and racism, you’re likely to become […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The subway train had just pulled out from a busy Washington station when it ground to a halt and foul-smelling smoke began filling the tunnel and the cars. “We’re going to die here!” passengers cried. In the fear and chaos that followed, riders prayed but also helped one another, performing mouth-to-mouth on […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Smoke from an unidentified source filled a busy downtown subway station in the nation’s capital Monday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds just before afternoon rush hour, authorities said. One person died and dozens were injured. Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from the L’Enfant Plaza station, one of the subway system’s busiest, about […]

CHICAGO (AP) — An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation’s busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, the president of a Chicago transit union said. The woman said she had worked extensive overtime recently and was “extremely tired” at the time of the […]

Apartheid ended in 1994 but Cape Town, South Africa is still segregated. Many beaches in the ‘Mother City’ remain predominately white and it’s the only province of South Africa not run by the African National Congress. Most Cape Town Blacks live in shacks outside of the city – the so-called Cape Town flats. If you’re poor, […]