AltWeeklies Wire
TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pantsnew

The Broward Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's Terminal 1.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Matthew Hendley |
07-08-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Nelson Santiago, TSA Theft
No Such Thing as Free Roadsnew

There are countless ways to price roads, and tolls are far from the most useful.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-20-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Highway Funding, Toll Roads
Booting is a Legal Scamnew

Worse, there's nowhere to turn when wrongly booted.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Besha Rodell |
05-25-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Cars, Parking Violations
How Easy is it to Ditch the Car Commute in Nashville?new

Members of the Scene staff took a pact of sustainability and agreed to leave our gasoline-chugging, dirty carbon footprint-leaving automobiles in park for a week. While our week of alternative transportation wasn't always pretty, it was educational, motivational and sometimes even fun.
Nashville Scene |
Staff |
04-07-2011 |
Transportation
What Will it Take to Get New Orleans on the Map for Biking in the U.S.?new

Consider how far New Orleans has come: pre-Katrina, the city had limited plans for lanes and paths. Following the 2005 levee failures, those plans had to start from scratch, and as the city rebuilt, planners looked for ways to involve bikes at the same pace as the rest of the city.
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
04-05-2011 |
Transportation
The Bikerootsnew

Los Angeles bicyclists roll into the halls of power.
L.A. Weekly |
Hillel Aron |
02-15-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Cyclists, Stephen Box
L.A.'s Light-Rail Fiasconew

How rail service to Los Angeles' Westside jumped the track.
L.A. Weekly |
Gene Maddaus |
12-03-2010 |
Transportation
Collective Bike Rides Gaining Tractionnew

New groups geared toward getting tourists, the black community, and everyone else to experience Oakland on two wheels.
East Bay Express |
Angela Kilduff |
11-23-2010 |
Transportation
The New Battle Cry: Don't Touch My Junk!

Will "Don't touch my junk!" be the battle cry of the next American Revolution? You can walk through one of the new "backscatter" body-image X-ray scanners, suck up 2.4 microrems of radiation, or you can choose the pat-down. But think twice. By all accounts, the pat-down procedure is thorough. Extremely thorough.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
11-22-2010 |
Transportation
Who (Re)Built the Electric Car?new

ChargeCar reimagines plug-in vehicles.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
07-24-2010 |
Transportation
Tags: ChargeCar, Illah Nourbakhsh
Privatize Public Transit?new
Chicago's tried it before. Here's how that went.
Chicago Reader |
Robert Loerzel |
06-14-2010 |
Transportation
Our Bodies, Our Carsnew

The links between urban design and public health.
Austin Chronicle |
Katherine Gregor |
06-14-2010 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation, New Urbanism
Fold-Up Follies: Tiny Two-Wheelers Race Through Fairmountnew
"Monty Python meets Tour de France" is what Trophy Bikes co-owner Michael McGettigan keeps calling the Brompton Folder U.S. bike race. The more he talks about it, the more apt the term he coined seems.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Julia West |
03-23-2010 |
Transportation
When it Comes to Risky Business, Driving Has Nothing on Parking in Pasadenanew

Where does it all end? No one knows. But we do know where misery begins for people victimized by money-hungry state and local officials imposing bankbook-busting fines for such “crimes” as improper parking, rolling through stop signs and running red lights.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-15-2010 |
Transportation
Fines Jacked Up by L.A. City Council Send Strapped Residents to Community Servicenew
What to do when, as Professor Thomas Griffith puts it, "we're running out of tricks"? Raise fines and fees: parking tickets coupled with meters that now must be fed well after 6 p.m.; "Denver" boots on cars; tow-away surcharges; littering fines. None of it has to go before L.A. voters.
L.A. Weekly |
Michael Goldstein |
02-26-2010 |
Transportation