Metropolitan Transportation Authority

NEW YORK -- Parts of the world's financial capital awoke Tuesday in the dark and without public transportation after a massive storm flooded tunnels, forced the closure of bridges and roads and left New Yorkers with no way to reach their jobs. The storm'...

Article Highlights: - NEW: Sandy claims at least 26 lives across the United States - More than 7.5 million customers are without power - Hundreds are trapped after a berm breaks in New Jersey - Transit official: The New York subway system "has...

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) -- More than two dozen people were taken to the hosptial after a crash involving a dump truck, an MTA bus and a BMW in Hollywood Tuesday morning. It happened just after 8 a.m. in the 7800 block of Hollywood Boulevard., between...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 64-year-old woman in a wheelchair died one day after she fell backwards down the escalator at the Hollywood/Highland Metro Red Line station on Tuesday. "Apparently the elevator ... was out of service operating from the...

Millions of Californians in schools, offices and hospitals paused their routines at 10:18 a.m. Thursday to participate in an earthquake drill billed as the largest such safety exercise in U.S. history. In the east portal lobby of Union Station in...

Riders and commuters will see an increase in fares and tolls. The question is how much of an increase will there be? The base fare is currently $2.25. A series of 4 proposals were put forth Monday by the staff of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority...

MALIBU, Calif. (KTLA) -- A female bicyclist who was killed over the weekend when she veered into a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus was training for an Ironman Triathlon. Marisela Echeverria, 36, was dragged beneath the bus and ultimately run...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- 'Carmageddon II' came to an end ahead of schedule, with all lanes of the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass re-opened to traffic by midnight Sunday. The two-day closure of the 10-mile stretch of the 405 was part of a $1-billion,...

It was like stumbling into a convention of the Society of Influence Peddlers, with old friends and enemies schmoozing before the start of festivities. There were Hall of Fame lobbyists like Richard Alatorre and Mike Roos, and future Hall-of-Famers like...

NEW YORK -- A controversial advertisement that critics say is hateful toward Muslims will appear in New York City subway stations starting next week, despite the city's attempts to halt the campaign. New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority...

The CTA could go a long way toward addressing public unhappiness over the "New York-style'' seating on Chicago's new rail cars if only CTA officials would consider doing what New York transit officials did many years ago. The solution starts with...