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Sacramento RT Considers Rules to Limit 'Noxious Odors,' Other Objectionable Rider Traits 2 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2181
San Francisco's motley Market Street Tamed, So Far, by Car Restrictions 1 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1901
"taking all three of my daughters to a tattoo parlor and having them completely body tattooed" 3 MisterP Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2703
Lawmakers agree to extend automated train deadline by 3 years 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1878
Oslo aims to make city center car-free within four years 1 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 1782
IL: Skokie, CTA Offer Free Parking, Special Ceremony for Yellow Line's Return 1 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2312
D.C.: District, Maryland and Virginia push bill backing federal oversight of Metro 0 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1597
America’s car obsession will not be diminished by Millennials alone 1 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 1854
Chinese firms want to build, finance California high-speed train 6 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 3039
Chicago: Now Arriving: Underground 4G Wireless Service on CTA Blue Line 0 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1942
The argument for public transportation in one GIF 17 nxylas Oct 2015 Oct 2015 60 5432
New York's Bus Terminal: Overcrowded, Fragile and Largely Ignored 2 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 1993
Check out this map of Detroit's electric rail system in 1915 1 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 5 2258
New York City and State Reach Agreement on M.T.A. Capital Plan 0 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1750
DC Metro Drops Paper Fare Tickets 0 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2928
U.S. officials to take direct safety oversight of Washington subway 0 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1754
Survey: two out of three of Americans likely to use High-Speed Rail in USA 2 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 5 1897
In Silicon Valley, transit is worthy of a DU-style flamewar 1 KamaAina Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 1800
In Japan, Small Children Take the Subway and Run Errands Alone - CityLab 6 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 3187
New York man sues UPS for blocking bicycle lanes 6 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 2620
Detroit's M-1 Rail Traveling Off-Wire with Liberty Modern Streetcars 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1867
Toronto: TTC Installs Bicycle Repair Facilities at 10 Subway Stations 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1908
Cottle Transit Village: Dense Mixed Use in San Jose 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2526
Washington DC: Metro Plans Additional Service Change at Stadium-Armory Station 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 2668
Atlanta Streetcar Hit With Double-Whammy of Bad News This Week 5 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 3033
Los Angeles Metro: Foothill Gold Line Opens Two More Stations 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 3376
Are Self Driving Cars Just Us Ignoring the Real Issues? 3 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 2493
Oklahoma City: First OKC streetcar is expected to arrive in fall 2017 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1750
New Zealand: Maintenance fault blamed for Wellington train derailment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1645
MARC replacing electric locomotive fleet with high-speed diesels 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Sep 2015 1 2847

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Amtrak to launch 'walk-on' bicycle service on Capitol Limited line 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1816
New York’s First New Subway Station in 26 Years 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 7 2236
SF Bay Area: BART, Packed with Record Crowds, to Expand Service 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1882
Tiburon Ferry in trouble — could takeover save it? 3 KamaAina Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 2161
Eyeing L.A.'s Olympic Bid, Metro Seeks to Accelerate Two Rail Projects 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2298
Chicago: CTA Continues Brown Line Modernization With New Signal Project 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1855
San Francisco: Expected Price Tag for Transbay Transit Center Jumps Again 2 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1916
Sacramento Ponders: Where Should Sidewalk Cycling be Banned? 10 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 4313
Edmonton Metro Line LRT Extension Opens Sept. 6 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 2465
Charlotte, NC: With gas prices low, transit ridership declines 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1960
Streetcar Projects Suffer a Bumpy Ride 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2723
California: Hearing on Rail Improvement, Expansion Packs Room in Downtown Modesto 1 marmar Aug 2015 Sep 2015 2 2064
North Texas Puts Up More HSR Money 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1752
Seattle: Low Pay, Long Pricey Commute Often Go Hand in Hand 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2329
Fixie Bikes Confuse Google's Self-Driving Cars 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 2258
NY/NJ: Nightmarish Train Tunnel Delays. Whose Problem Is It? 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1993
NYC: City May Replace Times Square Plazas With Traffic 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1728
Charlotte's Streetcar Ridership Tops Projection 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 1842
Ooh-La-La! Paris Is Going Car-Free for a Great Cause 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2056
Why Many Orange County Riders Got Off the Bus 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2256
How to Develop Bus-Stop Time Models in Dense Urban Areas 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 3277
Is Cheap Gas Why Traffic Deaths Are Up So Sharply In 2015? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1769
Portland: TriMet Expands Service with Opening of Max Orange Line 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2936
Toronto: TTC Testing Talking Buses 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1989
NY's Cuomo Reluctant to Dig Deep for New Hudson Rail Tunnel 3 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2206
Millennials Want to Walk, Prefer Short Commute 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 7 2102
Ten years after Katrina, a wait continues for restoring Gulf Coast passenger rail 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1754
San Francisco: Construction of the Transbay Transit Center 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2174
Senator offers plan to pay for New Jersey-New York rail tunnel 2 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1976
The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster 4 KamaAina Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 2368

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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Northeast Corridor at breaking point? 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1959
Chicago: CTA to Buy 125 More Buses as Part of Modernization Program 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2422
Track construction begins on New Haven-Springfield rail line 3 friendly_iconoclast Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1964
As Gas Tax Revenue Dips, CT And N.J. Take Opposite Paths To Transportation Funding 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1712
San Francisco: Turns Onto Market Street by Private Cars Barred Starting Tuesday 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1768
Appeals Court Upholds Gun Ban on Madison Buses 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1690
In L.A., efforts are afoot to make bike share a genuine part of the transit network 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1561
Chicago: Phone Battery Rental Kiosks Arrive at Union Station 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1597
How Car-Centric Cities Like Phoenix Learned to Love Light Rail 7 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 8 2586
Illinois: Suburbs' Downtown Plans Move Toward Transit-Oriented Housing 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 1970
'Stay on your own side of the bay' this weekend in the San Francisco region 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 2687
Toronto: Improvements to 33 Off-Peak TTC Bus and Streetcar Routes Coming 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1814
Aging infrastructure plagues nation's busiest rail corridor. 5 elleng Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2595
San Francisco: Muni Subway to be Closed at Night Starting July 31 for Six Months 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2253
Future of Urban Planning: A Hawaiian Neighborhood Born of Social Media 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1890
1910-1963 The destruction of Penn Station 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 3139
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 1755
Minneapolis has a surprisingly simple plan to cut traffic and make housing more affordable 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 2017
These Are the Saddest Amtrak Stations in America 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 2217
Charlotte Streetcar Begins Service on 1.5-Mile Run 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1903
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