Once a booming bedroom community for San Francisco Bay Area commuters, the city was hard hit by falling housing prices, enduring one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country.
Last year, after much prodding, the Legislature adopted a plan to finance the transportation authority that required nearly everyone in the New York City area — commuters, businesses, taxi riders — to pay a little more to keep the system running.
In order to get Bay area commuters out of their cars, Bauer has launched a luxury bus with big comfy chairs, Wi-Fi and a "ride host" handing out breakfast.
The condition of its trains, according to Mr. Cameron and other experts, stems from its status as a sort of stepchild of the metropolitan-area commuter rail system.
The Massachusetts Highway Department, the report says, was formally prohibited from using the data to offer highway message board estimates to Boston-area commuters on traffic delays.
For many Atlanta-area commuters who have long been frustrated by a history of major road improvement projects that ultimately did not deliver, the latest promise of a fix is suspect.
However, 37% of Washington-area commuters take public transportation to work, the second-highest rate in the country.
Washington, D.C.-area commuters are advised that all buses have been rerouted today to drive over Hilary Rosen, by order of the Democratic National Committee, so expect service delays.
According to a 2010 study, Washington-area commuters spent 70 hours a year in traffic delays, which tied with Chicago for having the nation's worst road congestion.
