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Hong Kong's government seeks to regulate online car-hailing platforms, a move likely to affect Uber
HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government is seeking to regulate online car-hailing platforms through licensing and impose tougher penalties on illegal ride services, a move likely to have a significant impact on tech companies such as Uber. Transport officials sent a document...
Amtrak service between New York City and Boston restored after lightning causes malfunction
NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak rail service between New York and Boston was restored after a lightning strike was believed to have caused a circuit breaker to malfunction, the rail service announced Saturday night. The malfunction caused a power outage on all tracks between Penn Station...
Air travel is getting worse. That's what passengers are telling the US government
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air travel got more miserable last year, if the number of consumer complaints filed with the U.S. government is any measure. The Transportation Department said Friday that it received nearly 97,000 complaints in 2023, up from about 86,000 the year before. The...
Some Boston subway trains are now sporting googly eyes
BOSTON (AP) — Subway riders in Boston are playing their own game of “Where’s Waldo?” But instead of searching for a cartoon character with a red and white striped top, they’re on the lookout for subway trains with googly eye decals attached to the front. The head of...
NYC's transit budget is short $16 billion. Here are the proposed cuts, as the governor seeks funds
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's public transit system will stop work on a planned subway line expansion and retreat from other maintenance and improvement projects because of a $16.5 billion shortfall caused by Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision to halt a plan to fund the projects through “congestion”...
Man who police say urged 'Zionists' to get off NYC subway train faces criminal charge
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who demanded that “Zionists” identify themselves on a New York City subway train during a protest over the Israel-Hamas war, then suggested that they get out, was charged Wednesday with attempted coercion, a misdemeanor, police said. A video showing the...
Three weeks after a landslide, Wyoming will reopen a highway critical for commuters
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Crews were almost done building a temporary route on Tuesday around a landslide that closed a vital road for thousands of workers in a western Wyoming resort town. Wyoming Department of Transportation officials were eyeing Friday to reopen Wyoming Highway 22....
Norfolk Southern said ahead of the NTSB hearing that railroads will examine vent and burn decisions
Days before the National Transportation Safety Board is set to explain why first responders were wrong to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside after the East Palestine derailment, Norfolk Southern said Friday it plans to lead an industrywide effort to improve the way those...
Amtrak service into and out of New York City disrupted for a second day
NEW YORK (AP) — Rail service in the Northeast was disrupted for a second day on Friday, with Amtrak trains into and out of New York City delayed or canceled and service on the commuter line NJ Transit suspended during the morning rush. Several Amtrak trains scheduled to run between...
Amtrak service resumes from Philadelphia to New Haven after power restored to train tracks
NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak service resumed Thursday from Philadelphia to New Haven, Connecticut, in time for the evening rush hour commute after power was restored to train tracks, the national rail service said. A circuit breaker malfunction led to a widespread loss of power on the...
