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A Bee-Line bus has crashed into an elevated subway platform column in the Bronx, with injuries reported. It happened on Jerome Avenue in the Norwood section. Video shows extensive damage to the front of the bus. Westchester County officials said the accident happened around 11:15 a.m. on Bee-Line Route 20, when a car hit the bus and the bus veered…

As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling to figure out how to win back passengers.

Authorities say a Las Vegas-based tour bus headed to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona

At least eight people were injured after a New York City accordion-style bus veered off the road and half of it dangled off an overpass. Myles Miller has the latest.

As financial concerns loom over the future of the MTA, transit leadership look to cost-saving measures and a return to at least one source of revenue: bus fares. Starting Monday, fare collection and front-door boarding resume on all buses. Tracie Strahan reports.

A New York man has been charged with criminal possession of stolen property after sheriff’s deputies say he stole a school bus in Pennsylvania to drive home. Justin Preedom stole a school bus and drove back to Avon, New York, on Monday, according to a statement from Livingston County Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty. Preedom was arraigned and released on...

The MTA will, once again, begin charging passengers to ride buses at the end of the month. This comes after the transportation agency stopped charging bus riders throughout the height of the pandemic.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched a pilot program to mount dispensers of free masks inside buses for its riders in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. The MTA has already completed installed these dispensers on 100 buses on six bus routes in three boroughs. Riders on the Bx12 SBS and Bx41SBS routes in the Bronx, S53 Staten Island…

The bus made famous by John Krakauer’s 1996 book “Into the Wild” has been removed by helicopter after many travelers have been injured or died over the years trying to retrace the steps of the subject of Krakauer’s book.

The school bus driver who pleaded guilty in a crash that killed a fifth-grade student and teacher in New Jersey in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. Seventy-nine-year-old Hudy Muldrow pleaded guilty this past December to reckless vehicular homicide, assault by auto and child endangerment. Prosecutors agreed to recommend a 10-year sentence as part of an agreement that…

More than 30 people were expected to deliver victim impact statements. Marc Santia reports.

A New Jersey Transit bus driver accused of killing a pedestrian in a fatal hit-and-run accident last New Year’s Eve was captured this week as she tried to board a plane at Newark Liberty International airport, authorities said. Fayola Howard, 34, of Bloomfield, was arrested Tuesday, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. She has been charged with vehicular...

A bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia’s Sumatra island after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, killing at least 28 people and injuring 13 others, police and rescuers said Tuesday. The accident occurred just before midnight Monday on a winding road in South Sumatra province’s Pagaralam district. Palembang search and rescue operation chief Berty Kowaas said the bodies were taken to…

The nation’s largest public bus system rolled out its first all-electric articulated bus Sunday under a plan to convert New York City’s transit agency to a zero-emissions fleet by 2040. The new vehicle was deployed on one of Manhattan’s busiest crosstown routes, the 14th Street busway. By March, the route will have 15 electric-articulated buses, which are 60-foot-long vehicles...

Some commuters hoping to catch buses Friday morning were met with delays since a rulebook slowdown impacted multiple Brooklyn bus lines during the Friday morning rush, according to sources.

New Jersey Transit unveiled three self-driving shuttles that it hopes to test as part of a pilot program funded by a $950,000 Federal Transit Administration grant.

A stolen car crashed into an MTA bus in Brooklyn, sending six people to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries early Saturday, autorities say.

A road accident in New Jersey Thursday morning left two senior citizens with serious injuries, a utility pole laying on top of a mini-bus and a crushed car behind it.

Lawmakers in New York have voted to exempt nursing mothers from jury duty.

It was an unusual attack, even by New York City standards – a man climbed on the front window of a city bus Thursday evening and started stabbing at the roof with a blunt object.