The only Republican in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet is stepping down. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood reflects on efforts to improve safety and consumer rights in the administration’s first term.

Two Republican floor amendments were shot down in the Virginia Senate Tuesday evening, effectively killing the transportation funding plan endorsed by the governor.

Anybody who drives in the D.C. area knows the roads are often jammed, but for the fourth year in a row, a report has identified commutes in the area as the nation's worst.

As Virginia lawmakers debate the future of transportation funding in the commonwealth, much of the debate centers on whether the use of fuel efficiency vehicles should be encouraged or taxed to make up for the gas tax.

Maryland commuters will get be able to put the pedal ever so slightly closer to the metal starting in March, when the MDTA raises the speed limit to 60 miles per hour.

Metro is continuing its effort to fix many of its broken escalators, including three today at the Pentagon station.

Virginia officials are looking into whether the tolls on the Dulles Greenway toll are too high.

Metro track work might be slightly more arduous than usual this weekend, as shuttle buses will take the place of trains between long stretches on both the Orange and Blue Lines.

We learn about how transportation became the "third rail" of Virginia politics, and what's likely to happen on the issue in Richmond this year.