As cities have become increasingly congested with vehicular traffic, mass transit systems have been developed to relieve traffic jams, taking passengers to their destinations without the need for automobiles. Subways serve as the nucleus of many...

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated or metro(politan) system is a railway — usually in an urban area—with a high capacity and frequency of service and grade separation from other traffic. In most of the world, these systems are known as a...

The virtues of rapid transit By RESLER Monday, December 3, 2001 Although cars and other motor vehicles today pollute far less than their predecessors years ago, suburban sprawl forces people to drive more often and farther to get around. More cars...

In Pittsburgh, Ottawa and elsewhere, Bus Rapid Transit is redefining perceptions of bus travel With the FTA's waiting list of costly New Start rail projects approaching 100, and traffic congestion continuing to grow in metropolitan areas throughout the country, transit operators are...

To the Editor: The editorial “The Soggy Subways” [Aug. 20] reminded me of history everyone has forgotten. The original B.M.T. (Brooklyn Manhattan Rapid Transit) and I.R.T. (Interboro Rapid Transit) subway systems were constructed and paid for by the private sector. They supported both development...

To William Barclay Parsons, civil engineering wasn't just about crunching numbers and solving technical matters. It was far more. He saw his career choice as "a tool for expanding America's wealth and power," Clifton Hood wrote in "722 Miles: The Building of Subways and How...