transit

On the platform in Fall River, Ollie Couto said he remembers trains in the city during his childhood in the 1950s, and he’s glad they’re back after all these years.

The region hasn’t had a train to Boston since the 1950s, when highways became king. Now, after more than three decades of political promises and $1 billion spent, South Coast Rail is scheduled to open Monday.

An official at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said yesterday that the Federal Railroad Administration still needs to greenlight a plan for speed limits along the route.

Plans are underway to replace the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges, as we've been reporting here on CAI. Every year there are about 38 million car trips across the bridges, and those cars often carry one or two people at a time. So this made Eve Zuckoff wonder what the new bridges could mean for public transportation and whether they could encourage people to make greener trips to the region.

“Right here, you're getting off at Stone Horse?” calls driver Andrew Ianniello to one of the foreign students on the bus.“Thank you,” the student says as he turns toward the door, “and have a good day.”Hop on the bus for the conclusion of a two-part story on what it’s like to depend on the Cape Cod bus system and how public transit here is changing.

“It takes at least twice as long."“It's better than in Europe in some ways."Public transit is affordable to ride and cuts down on pollution and traffic. But how practical is it on Cape Cod? Come along for the ride as CAI’s Jennette Barnes talks to bus passengers between Hyannis and Orleans. Part 1 of a two-part story.

Cars, trucks, buses and other forms of transportation produced 55 percent of the Cape region’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in recent years, according…

The Steamship Authority announced it will welcome a pair of electric buses to its fleet to transport passengers between parking lots and ferry terminals…