Federal Transit Administration

Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be Secretary of Transportation. Whatever you think, remember that this guy is one of the few politicians who acknowledges the "many ways we subsidize driving." So there's that.

New crisis, same old mistakes. The Federal Transit Administration’s $25-billion COVID-19 public transit grant package contains much-needed lifelines for struggling transit agencies across the country — but the amount received by each agency did not take into account the new reality of the virus, but were allocated using the same formulas from normal years. As a […]

And it doesn't look anything like her fellow candidates' proposals.

It's a great time to be living in the middle of nowhere as President Trump directs more transportation funds to his rural base.

Whaddya know? Amtrak is getting better and better — and may soon be profitable (you read that right!).

It's the latest battle for the soul of the Democratic party.

House members propose a bill that would fund pedestrian- and cycling-safety efforts.

A small group, for now, but eager to debate ways to better fund transit.