For passengers riding BART—that’s the Bay Area Rapid Transit system connecting San Francisco with Oakland and many other points in the Bay Area—a 44-year-old annoyance may soon be a thing...

Running up against all the various anti-rail elements in this country can wear you down after a while. It can be frustrating because the people opposed to high-speed rail are...

 Municipal transit systems have been around for a long time.  The New York City subway system opened in 1868, but an elevated segment was actually operating five years before that....

In the late 1950s, the first talks began about designing and building a commuter rail system connecting the metropolitan areas around the Bay Area and linking everything to San Francisco....