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Check out this map of Detroit's electric rail system in 1915 1 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 5 2234
New York City and State Reach Agreement on M.T.A. Capital Plan 0 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1731
DC Metro Drops Paper Fare Tickets 0 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2912
U.S. officials to take direct safety oversight of Washington subway 0 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1734
Survey: two out of three of Americans likely to use High-Speed Rail in USA 2 marmar Oct 2015 Oct 2015 5 1872
In Silicon Valley, transit is worthy of a DU-style flamewar 1 KamaAina Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 1781
In Japan, Small Children Take the Subway and Run Errands Alone - CityLab 6 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 3165
New York man sues UPS for blocking bicycle lanes 6 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 2592
Detroit's M-1 Rail Traveling Off-Wire with Liberty Modern Streetcars 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1851
Toronto: TTC Installs Bicycle Repair Facilities at 10 Subway Stations 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1890
Cottle Transit Village: Dense Mixed Use in San Jose 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2502
Washington DC: Metro Plans Additional Service Change at Stadium-Armory Station 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 2641
Atlanta Streetcar Hit With Double-Whammy of Bad News This Week 5 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 2999
Los Angeles Metro: Foothill Gold Line Opens Two More Stations 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 3352
Are Self Driving Cars Just Us Ignoring the Real Issues? 3 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 2473
Oklahoma City: First OKC streetcar is expected to arrive in fall 2017 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1733
New Zealand: Maintenance fault blamed for Wellington train derailment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1616
MARC replacing electric locomotive fleet with high-speed diesels 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Sep 2015 1 2816
Amtrak to launch 'walk-on' bicycle service on Capitol Limited line 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1794
New York’s First New Subway Station in 26 Years 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 7 2215
SF Bay Area: BART, Packed with Record Crowds, to Expand Service 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1862
Tiburon Ferry in trouble — could takeover save it? 3 KamaAina Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 2131
Eyeing L.A.'s Olympic Bid, Metro Seeks to Accelerate Two Rail Projects 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2280
Chicago: CTA Continues Brown Line Modernization With New Signal Project 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 1840
San Francisco: Expected Price Tag for Transbay Transit Center Jumps Again 2 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1892
Sacramento Ponders: Where Should Sidewalk Cycling be Banned? 10 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 4275
Edmonton Metro Line LRT Extension Opens Sept. 6 1 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 2446
Charlotte, NC: With gas prices low, transit ridership declines 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 1935
Streetcar Projects Suffer a Bumpy Ride 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 2700
California: Hearing on Rail Improvement, Expansion Packs Room in Downtown Modesto 1 marmar Aug 2015 Sep 2015 2 2024

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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North Texas Puts Up More HSR Money 0 marmar Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1734
Seattle: Low Pay, Long Pricey Commute Often Go Hand in Hand 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2301
Fixie Bikes Confuse Google's Self-Driving Cars 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 2242
NY/NJ: Nightmarish Train Tunnel Delays. Whose Problem Is It? 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1968
NYC: City May Replace Times Square Plazas With Traffic 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1707
Charlotte's Streetcar Ridership Tops Projection 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 1822
Ooh-La-La! Paris Is Going Car-Free for a Great Cause 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2037
Why Many Orange County Riders Got Off the Bus 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2219
How to Develop Bus-Stop Time Models in Dense Urban Areas 4 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 3250
Is Cheap Gas Why Traffic Deaths Are Up So Sharply In 2015? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1751
Portland: TriMet Expands Service with Opening of Max Orange Line 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2915
Toronto: TTC Testing Talking Buses 2 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1962
NY's Cuomo Reluctant to Dig Deep for New Hudson Rail Tunnel 3 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2172
Millennials Want to Walk, Prefer Short Commute 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 7 2074
Ten years after Katrina, a wait continues for restoring Gulf Coast passenger rail 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1734
San Francisco: Construction of the Transbay Transit Center 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 2155
Senator offers plan to pay for New Jersey-New York rail tunnel 2 Eugene Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1948
The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster 4 KamaAina Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 2329
Northeast Corridor at breaking point? 3 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1929
Chicago: CTA to Buy 125 More Buses as Part of Modernization Program 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2403
Track construction begins on New Haven-Springfield rail line 3 friendly_iconoclast Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1929
As Gas Tax Revenue Dips, CT And N.J. Take Opposite Paths To Transportation Funding 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1693
San Francisco: Turns Onto Market Street by Private Cars Barred Starting Tuesday 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1747
Appeals Court Upholds Gun Ban on Madison Buses 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1677
In L.A., efforts are afoot to make bike share a genuine part of the transit network 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1546
Chicago: Phone Battery Rental Kiosks Arrive at Union Station 0 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1579
How Car-Centric Cities Like Phoenix Learned to Love Light Rail 7 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 8 2557
Illinois: Suburbs' Downtown Plans Move Toward Transit-Oriented Housing 1 marmar Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 1950
'Stay on your own side of the bay' this weekend in the San Francisco region 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 2665
Toronto: Improvements to 33 Off-Peak TTC Bus and Streetcar Routes Coming 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1794

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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Aging infrastructure plagues nation's busiest rail corridor. 5 elleng Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2553
San Francisco: Muni Subway to be Closed at Night Starting July 31 for Six Months 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2231
Future of Urban Planning: A Hawaiian Neighborhood Born of Social Media 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1865
1910-1963 The destruction of Penn Station 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 3117
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 1737
Minneapolis has a surprisingly simple plan to cut traffic and make housing more affordable 1 KamaAina Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 1990
These Are the Saddest Amtrak Stations in America 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 2196
Charlotte Streetcar Begins Service on 1.5-Mile Run 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1882
Chicago: CTA Ridership Fell Short on Purple Line Pilot 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1849
MARTA to Make an $8B Pitch to Change the Face of Atlanta 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 1840
BART Woes Build Day After Day 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1995
NJ: Passengers Stuck for 3 Hours When Train and Backup Train Break Down 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1846
For rail services, downtown sometimes isn’t the right place for a terminus 3 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 2027
Chicago: CTA Proposed Red-Purple Bypass 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1750
Toronto: TTC Marks Milestone of Revitalized Union Station 0 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1623
Who, What, Why: Why does hot weather cause rail delays? 1 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1817
London will try to beat traffic and air pollution with this new electric bus 7 marmar Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 3474
Google to help FRA notify drivers of rail crossing locations 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1496
Chicago: After Month Without Yellow Line, News Gets Worse in Skokie 1 marmar Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 2072
The State of Positive Train Control Implementation in the United States 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1458
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