Angie Schmitt

The people have spoken, and the winner of Streetsblog's 2016 Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament is this beauty on Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The National Transportation Safety Board is best known for investigating train crashes and plane crashes to figure out what went wrong.

For the first time in almost four decades, the nation's tailpipes now spew out more carbon emissions than the nation's smokestacks. It's an indication of how slowly the American transportation sector is rising to the challenge of preventing catastrophic climate change.

What can a Google Maps visual teach us about the cities we live in?

This is it, folks -- the championship round of Streetsblog's Sorriest Bus Stop tournament.

What a fiasco. Six years after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie killed the ARC transit tunnel under the Hudson so he could avoid raising the gas tax, the jig is up. The state has run out of transportation funding anyway.

The way we move around is shaped by many factors -- the physical environment, culture, technology, and economic status, to name a few. A new report from the engineering firm Arup, "Cities Alive: Towards a Walking World," looks at how motorized cities can become walkable again.

The competition to be named America's Sorriest Bus Stop started out with 16 ghastly contenders, and your votes have whittled the field down to four disasters for transit riders.

More cities should copy this idea for their park-and-ride transit stations: At DC Metro's King Street station in Old Town Alexandria, plans are underway to turn parking spots into a pedestrian plaza. This goes against the grain of typical transit agency practice. Despite the fact that park-and-rides are an inefficient use of scarce land, a recent survey by researchers Lisa Jacobson and Rachel Weinberger found that most agencies are looking to expand them.

It's Final Four time in Streetsblog's Sorriest Bus Stop tournament. After two rounds, only the least appealing, most dehumanizing bus stops are still standing.