Daniel Grabauskas

A rare meeting of the nation's transit minds will take place in Boston this spring.

Zipcar is an answer for the typical auto-centric person who asks, “But what if I need a car?"

There are a lot of inconvenient truths these days. Here's another: We don't have enough money to fix what we have already built and invested in, even as we are pulled by the need to keep expanding our infrastructure to continue to grow the economy.

The news today that the Northeast Corridor (think your Amtrak trip from Boston to New York to Washington DC) would be shut out of the first round of high-speed rail funding is very bad news and a missed opportunity. And not just bad news for the Northeast Corridor, though certainly that, but for the future of high-speed rail itself.

"Charlie on the MTA" was written originally for a Boston mayoral campaign by Ms. Hawes and Jacqueline Steiner while they were living here. The song was a marriage of politics and the T!