Anyone who lives here knows that Houston is not a walkable city. There may be pockets of streets where you can walk from office to restaurant to dry cleaners. But there are few walking neighborhoods. A report today on National Public Radio features a family who got fed up with a long commute - and moved from the suburbs to the ...

  Starting in January, tax benefits for using public transit just got better for employee and employer. Companies can give their employees tax-free transit commuter benefits up to $115 a month, up from $110 last year. Unfortunately, the federal government still gives higher parking commuter benefits -up to $220 a month, an increase of $5 ...

  Not all mass transit reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Take commercial flights, for example. Airplanes contribute about 3 percent of the world's total emissions. That's a small but still notable contribution to the global warming effect triggered by humans. In fact, about three tons of carbon dioxide are produced for every ...