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Chicago: CTA to double speed of some downtown buses that crawl at 3 mph 0 marmar Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2072

Twin Cities: U.S. Bank Provides Funding for St. Paul Green Line Apartments 0 marmar Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1842

FRA launches crossing safety campaign, schedules trespassing prevention workshop 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1671

Seattle: Sound Transit Reaches Record Ridership in 2014 0 marmar Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1822

"Transit Revolution": Will Los Angeles Become Gentrification Ground Zero? 1 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2462

Double-decker bus gives Stanford commuters a fresh perspective 2 KamaAina Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1981

San Francisco residents relying less on private automobiles 1 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1811

Massachusetts: Delays, Crowding, Tension Persist for Locals Using MBTA Commuter Rail 0 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1837

A Vacant Lot In Wyoming Will Become One Of The World's First Vertical Farms (xpost from GD) 0 KamaAina Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1931

Detroit: Grand Rapids Silver Line Offers Model For Woodward BRT Service 0 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1712

Boston: Scott Says 'at Least' 30 Days Needed to Get T on Track 0 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1925

Chicago: Study Says CTA Attracts More Haters on Twitter Than Other Transit Agencies 1 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2188

Boston-Area Public Transit System Tested During Snowstorms 0 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2127

Milwaukee City Council OKs streetcar plan 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1731

Chicago: CTA Blue Line Upgrade Gets $120M Infusion From Feds 1 marmar Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2408

DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2072

Amtrak to invest $12 million in major renovation of Chicago's Union Station 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2246

Downtown Living Doesn't Stop for Storms 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2229

M-1 Rail construction to ramp up this year in Detroit 0 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2149

NY: MTA Had Plan to Keep Subways Running Despite Heavy Snow 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 2044

Seattle's Pronto Cycle Share puts rental bikes around town at swipe, go stations 0 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1827

For LaGuardia, an AirTrain that will save almost no one any time 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2082

Suburban Chicago: Pace Unveils $2.3B Rapid Transit Network Plan 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 2641

NY: Subway Fare Going Up 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2142

Cuomo to Call for an AirTrain to LaGuardia 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2089

Toronto Mayor John Tory’s welcome reverse on transit exposes his flank 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1996

Charlotte Streetcar Opening Delayed Until June 0 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1990

SF Mayor Announces Major Expansion of Muni Light Rail Fleet 2 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 2653

Washington DC: 1 dead, dozens hurt after Metro car fills with smoke 0 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1818

NYC subways slowly upgrading from 1930s-era technology 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 2042

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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(Transit) Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2015 0 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 2386

Amtrak San Joaquin Corridor At Near-Record Ridership And Revenue Levels 3 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 4 2326

US Transportation Sec. Foxx announces $996 million to extend Green Line (Boston) 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2652

BART Video: "Farewell Old Wool Seats" 0 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1860

The 51 Busiest Train Stations in the World– All but 6 Located in Japan 2 marmar Jan 2014 Jan 2015 1 3287

Cities Without Traffic 1 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 2123

Chicago Transit Projects for 2015 2 marmar Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 2264

Chicago CTA Ride the Rails: Brown Line in Real Time 0 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 2048

Despite Cheaper Gas, Public Transit Ridership Is Up, Trade Group Reports 1 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 5 1874

Infographic: The 5 Largest Public Transit Systems in the US 3 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 2360

NYC: MTA To Combat Subway Delays With 'Platform Conductors' 2 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 2239

Calgary’s soaring transit use suggests high ridership is possible even in sprawling cities 3 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 2691

Detroit M-1 Rail: Moving Forward Together 0 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 1683

Transit: land use is key 0 KamaAina Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1784

Chicago McCormick Place Green Line Opening Delayed to Early 2015 0 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 2079

Frustrations Mount With New Doubts About D.C.'s Streetcar Launch 0 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 1673

D.C.: Metro's Funding Needs Run Up Against Local Budget Realities 3 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 2120

Boston: MBTA Ridership Surpasses 37M For 1st Time 0 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 2 1839

Chicago CTA Ride the Rails: Red Line to Howard 4 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 2777

Ride the Rails: Blue Line to O'Hare 0 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 4 2017

M-1 RAIL on time with completion of first phase of construction on Woodward Ave. in Downtown Detroit 0 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 1935

Confirmed: Sprawl and Bad Transit Increase Unemployment 4 KamaAina Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 2418

My pic of construction of the M1 light rail line in downtown Detroit ......... 2 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 2740

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1450

Europe's cycling economy has created 650,000 jobs 0 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1786

With no new rail tunnel on the horizon under the Hudson, New York faces a looming transport crisis 1 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 2368

NYC Sets One-Day Subway Ridership Record 2 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 2052

Detroit: M-1 Rail picks Czech Republic-based vendor to build custom streetcars 1 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 1 2086

Amid Funding Fight, D.C. Cuts Streetcar System From 22 To 8 Miles 0 marmar Nov 2014 Nov 2014 1 1796

Why middle-class Americans can’t afford to live in liberal cities (xpost from GD) 2 KamaAina Oct 2014 Oct 2014 5 2137

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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SF gas stations dwindle in real estate boom (xpost from Calif.) 0 KamaAina Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2036

Repairing Sandy Damaged Rail Tunnels Could Snarl Commute for Years 1 marmar Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2050

D.C.: Replacement Of Metro's Delay-Prone Old Rail Cars Delayed 0 marmar Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1882

Densely Populated Countries Could Find Food Independence With Vertical Floating Farms (xpost fr. GD) 4 KamaAina Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2678

With infill stations, older transit agencies extend their reach 0 marmar Sep 2014 Sep 2014 5 2086

Public Transit Is Underfunded Because the Wealthy Don’t Rely on It 3 KamaAina Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2418

For Walkers and Cyclists, A Swedish Road-Planning Strategy Helps Save Lives 1 KamaAina Sep 2014 Sep 2014 5 2056

How The Suburbs Got Poor 1 KamaAina Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2168

Nine years after Katrina, New Orleans’ public transit is still rebuilt for wealthy whites 0 KamaAina Sep 2014 Sep 2014 8 1890

S.F. property owners to get tax break from creating urban farms 0 KamaAina Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1751

Man 3-D Prints Backyard Castle, Plans Two-Story House Next (xpost from GD) 13 KamaAina Aug 2014 Sep 2014 23 7217

For London, one Crossrail isn’t enough 1 marmar Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2942

Self-Service Scooters are the Next Form of Communal Transportation in Paris? 0 marmar Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 2199

Can Light Rail Be an Engine of Opportunity? The Twin Cities Story 4 KamaAina Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 3077

Let’s make suburbs into cities: New urbanism, car culture and the future of community 2 marmar Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2307

Chicago: Additional bus-on-shoulder service coming to Stevenson; possible some day on Edens 0 marmar Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1883

Measuring Metro's Performance: A Tight Squeeze Through The Rosslyn Bottleneck 1 marmar Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1980

How Your City’s Public Transit Stacks Up 2 KamaAina Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 2101

The Case for Public Transportation, in Infographic Form 2 KamaAina Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 2147

Missoula buses will be 'zero fare' beginning Jan. 5 4 KamaAina Aug 2014 Aug 2014 10 2265

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