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Charlotte, NC: With gas prices low, transit ridership declines 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1885
Streetcar Projects Suffer a Bumpy Ride 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2611
California: Hearing on Rail Improvement, Expansion Packs Room in Downtown Modesto 1 marmar Aug 2015 Sep 2015 2 1934
North Texas Puts Up More HSR Money 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1681
Seattle: Low Pay, Long Pricey Commute Often Go Hand in Hand 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2241
Fixie Bikes Confuse Google's Self-Driving Cars 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 2199
NY/NJ: Nightmarish Train Tunnel Delays. Whose Problem Is It? 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1906
NYC: City May Replace Times Square Plazas With Traffic 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1663
Charlotte's Streetcar Ridership Tops Projection 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 1769
Ooh-La-La! Paris Is Going Car-Free for a Great Cause 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 1991
Why Many Orange County Riders Got Off the Bus 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2143
How to Develop Bus-Stop Time Models in Dense Urban Areas 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 3162
Is Cheap Gas Why Traffic Deaths Are Up So Sharply In 2015? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1698
Portland: TriMet Expands Service with Opening of Max Orange Line 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2855
Toronto: TTC Testing Talking Buses 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1883
NY's Cuomo Reluctant to Dig Deep for New Hudson Rail Tunnel 3 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2095
Millennials Want to Walk, Prefer Short Commute 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 7 2003
Ten years after Katrina, a wait continues for restoring Gulf Coast passenger rail 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1687
San Francisco: Construction of the Transbay Transit Center 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2094
Senator offers plan to pay for New Jersey-New York rail tunnel 2 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1886
The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster 4 KamaAina Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 2245
Northeast Corridor at breaking point? 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1856
Chicago: CTA to Buy 125 More Buses as Part of Modernization Program 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2350
Track construction begins on New Haven-Springfield rail line 3 friendly_iconoclast Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1877
As Gas Tax Revenue Dips, CT And N.J. Take Opposite Paths To Transportation Funding 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1630
San Francisco: Turns Onto Market Street by Private Cars Barred Starting Tuesday 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1688
Appeals Court Upholds Gun Ban on Madison Buses 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1619
In L.A., efforts are afoot to make bike share a genuine part of the transit network 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1498
Chicago: Phone Battery Rental Kiosks Arrive at Union Station 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1522
How Car-Centric Cities Like Phoenix Learned to Love Light Rail 7 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 8 2464

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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Illinois: Suburbs' Downtown Plans Move Toward Transit-Oriented Housing 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 1884
'Stay on your own side of the bay' this weekend in the San Francisco region 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 2589
Toronto: Improvements to 33 Off-Peak TTC Bus and Streetcar Routes Coming 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1742
Aging infrastructure plagues nation's busiest rail corridor. 5 elleng Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2474
San Francisco: Muni Subway to be Closed at Night Starting July 31 for Six Months 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2166
Future of Urban Planning: A Hawaiian Neighborhood Born of Social Media 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1820
1910-1963 The destruction of Penn Station 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 3043
London’s population has risen by 603,000 since 2000, car ownership has actually dropped by 117,000 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1695
Minneapolis has a surprisingly simple plan to cut traffic and make housing more affordable 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 1943
These Are the Saddest Amtrak Stations in America 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 2142
Charlotte Streetcar Begins Service on 1.5-Mile Run 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1827
Chicago: CTA Ridership Fell Short on Purple Line Pilot 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1796
MARTA to Make an $8B Pitch to Change the Face of Atlanta 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 1783
BART Woes Build Day After Day 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1924
NJ: Passengers Stuck for 3 Hours When Train and Backup Train Break Down 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1781
For rail services, downtown sometimes isn’t the right place for a terminus 3 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 1971
Chicago: CTA Proposed Red-Purple Bypass 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1710
Toronto: TTC Marks Milestone of Revitalized Union Station 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1561
Who, What, Why: Why does hot weather cause rail delays? 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1769
London will try to beat traffic and air pollution with this new electric bus 7 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 3402
Google to help FRA notify drivers of rail crossing locations 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1455
Chicago: After Month Without Yellow Line, News Gets Worse in Skokie 1 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 2011
The State of Positive Train Control Implementation in the United States 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1418
The Northeast Corridor's Curviest Stretches, and Amtrak's Plans for Safety and Speed. 1 elleng Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1690
Fear of Longer Commutes Puts Pressure on US Cities to Act 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 1662
Urban Transit Systems Struggle to Keep Pace as Demand Grows 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1676
NY: $3.9B World Trade Center Transit Hub Nears Completion 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1690
Metro train system’s operation center is understaffed and chaotic, federal investigators find 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 1599
Toronto's new downtown-to-airport rail link is up and running 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 1991
Maryland: Big MARC Fare Hikes Cause Riders to Press Hogan for Hearings 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1789

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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Future of Transportation: Cities with Choices—and Less Parking 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 2075
Transportation First, then Economic Development for Streetcars 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1676
Construction begins for Ottawa's new light-rail line 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1592
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1408
Amtrak may pull plug on Southwest Chief, River Runner 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 2486
New Jersey, You Should've Built That Tunnel 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 4 1900
House Votes for Major Amtrak Cuts 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 2134
SF Bay Area: BART Transbay Tube Closure Planned 1 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 2015
Five Countries With the Best Public Transportation Systems (xpost from GD) 2 KamaAina Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 2142
M1 Rail names American contractor for six Detroit streetcars 1 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1981
Seattle’s smart plan to remake its streets 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 1781
In Japan, Md. governor is wowed by super-fast trains — with big price tags 8 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 2475
San Francisco city officials vow to ride public transit for the next 22 days 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 1703
MDOT looks to cut payments on idle rail cars, launch Detroit-Ann Arbor commuter line by 2019 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1533
Twin Cities: Eden Prairie Rail Stations Being Considered for Cuts 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1724
Warning: Do Not Drive Around Cars Waiting at a Grade Crossing for the Train to Go By 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 2510
MO: St. Louis County Faces Steep Odds Getting MetroLink on Expansion Track 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1934
House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Amtrak Derailment Meeting, 06-02-15 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1667
Elk Grove to leave bus service unchanged; proposed light-rail plan unpopular (xpost from CA) 0 KamaAina May 2015 May 2015 2 1614
SEPTA places railway safety technology order 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2015 May 2015 2 1720
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