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Oklahoma City: First OKC streetcar is expected to arrive in fall 2017 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1709
New Zealand: Maintenance fault blamed for Wellington train derailment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1593
MARC replacing electric locomotive fleet with high-speed diesels 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Sep 2015 1 2769
Amtrak to launch 'walk-on' bicycle service on Capitol Limited line 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1766
New York’s First New Subway Station in 26 Years 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 7 2193
SF Bay Area: BART, Packed with Record Crowds, to Expand Service 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1824
Tiburon Ferry in trouble — could takeover save it? 3 KamaAina Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 2095
Eyeing L.A.'s Olympic Bid, Metro Seeks to Accelerate Two Rail Projects 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2239
Chicago: CTA Continues Brown Line Modernization With New Signal Project 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1811
San Francisco: Expected Price Tag for Transbay Transit Center Jumps Again 2 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1840
Sacramento Ponders: Where Should Sidewalk Cycling be Banned? 10 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 4162
Edmonton Metro Line LRT Extension Opens Sept. 6 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 2403
Charlotte, NC: With gas prices low, transit ridership declines 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1899
Streetcar Projects Suffer a Bumpy Ride 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2636
California: Hearing on Rail Improvement, Expansion Packs Room in Downtown Modesto 1 marmar Aug 2015 Sep 2015 2 1967
North Texas Puts Up More HSR Money 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1697
Seattle: Low Pay, Long Pricey Commute Often Go Hand in Hand 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2262
Fixie Bikes Confuse Google's Self-Driving Cars 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 2216
NY/NJ: Nightmarish Train Tunnel Delays. Whose Problem Is It? 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1928
NYC: City May Replace Times Square Plazas With Traffic 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1681
Charlotte's Streetcar Ridership Tops Projection 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 1790
Ooh-La-La! Paris Is Going Car-Free for a Great Cause 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2010
Why Many Orange County Riders Got Off the Bus 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2163
How to Develop Bus-Stop Time Models in Dense Urban Areas 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 3187
Is Cheap Gas Why Traffic Deaths Are Up So Sharply In 2015? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1720
Portland: TriMet Expands Service with Opening of Max Orange Line 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2877
Toronto: TTC Testing Talking Buses 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1907
NY's Cuomo Reluctant to Dig Deep for New Hudson Rail Tunnel 3 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2124
Millennials Want to Walk, Prefer Short Commute 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 7 2023
Ten years after Katrina, a wait continues for restoring Gulf Coast passenger rail 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1704

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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San Francisco: Construction of the Transbay Transit Center 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2116
Senator offers plan to pay for New Jersey-New York rail tunnel 2 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1910
The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster 4 KamaAina Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 2279
Northeast Corridor at breaking point? 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1879
Chicago: CTA to Buy 125 More Buses as Part of Modernization Program 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2368
Track construction begins on New Haven-Springfield rail line 3 friendly_iconoclast Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1908
As Gas Tax Revenue Dips, CT And N.J. Take Opposite Paths To Transportation Funding 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1655
San Francisco: Turns Onto Market Street by Private Cars Barred Starting Tuesday 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1710
Appeals Court Upholds Gun Ban on Madison Buses 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1638
In L.A., efforts are afoot to make bike share a genuine part of the transit network 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1523
Chicago: Phone Battery Rental Kiosks Arrive at Union Station 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1545
How Car-Centric Cities Like Phoenix Learned to Love Light Rail 7 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 8 2495
Illinois: Suburbs' Downtown Plans Move Toward Transit-Oriented Housing 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 1909
'Stay on your own side of the bay' this weekend in the San Francisco region 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 2617
Toronto: Improvements to 33 Off-Peak TTC Bus and Streetcar Routes Coming 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1761
Aging infrastructure plagues nation's busiest rail corridor. 5 elleng Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2505
San Francisco: Muni Subway to be Closed at Night Starting July 31 for Six Months 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2185
Future of Urban Planning: A Hawaiian Neighborhood Born of Social Media 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1835
1910-1963 The destruction of Penn Station 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 3072
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 1709
Minneapolis has a surprisingly simple plan to cut traffic and make housing more affordable 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 1958
These Are the Saddest Amtrak Stations in America 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 2160
Charlotte Streetcar Begins Service on 1.5-Mile Run 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1846
Chicago: CTA Ridership Fell Short on Purple Line Pilot 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1813
MARTA to Make an $8B Pitch to Change the Face of Atlanta 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 1809
BART Woes Build Day After Day 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1943
NJ: Passengers Stuck for 3 Hours When Train and Backup Train Break Down 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1802
For rail services, downtown sometimes isn’t the right place for a terminus 3 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 1989
Chicago: CTA Proposed Red-Purple Bypass 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1728
Toronto: TTC Marks Milestone of Revitalized Union Station 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1585

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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Who, What, Why: Why does hot weather cause rail delays? 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1786
London will try to beat traffic and air pollution with this new electric bus 7 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 3432
Google to help FRA notify drivers of rail crossing locations 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1472
Chicago: After Month Without Yellow Line, News Gets Worse in Skokie 1 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 2032
The State of Positive Train Control Implementation in the United States 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1435
The Northeast Corridor's Curviest Stretches, and Amtrak's Plans for Safety and Speed. 1 elleng Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1715
Fear of Longer Commutes Puts Pressure on US Cities to Act 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 1683
Urban Transit Systems Struggle to Keep Pace as Demand Grows 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1697
NY: $3.9B World Trade Center Transit Hub Nears Completion 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1712
Metro train system’s operation center is understaffed and chaotic, federal investigators find 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 1616
Toronto's new downtown-to-airport rail link is up and running 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 2013
Maryland: Big MARC Fare Hikes Cause Riders to Press Hogan for Hearings 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1822
Future of Transportation: Cities with Choices—and Less Parking 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 2115
Transportation First, then Economic Development for Streetcars 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1715
Construction begins for Ottawa's new light-rail line 0 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1612
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1423
Amtrak may pull plug on Southwest Chief, River Runner 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 2509
New Jersey, You Should've Built That Tunnel 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 4 1923
House Votes for Major Amtrak Cuts 2 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 2156
SF Bay Area: BART Transbay Tube Closure Planned 1 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 2037
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