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• Ex-Mossad official sees massive attack on U.S. homeland

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Ex-Mossad official sees massive attack on U.S. homeland – www.worldtribune.com WASHINGTON — Yuval Aviv, who predicted the Al Qaida strikes on Londons mass transit system in 2005, said he believes Al Qaida was planning a series of mass-casualty strikes throughout the United States. Aviv said the most likely targets ...
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• Round up of Articles on Rail Maintenance Yard Location

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 133
  Round up of Articles on Rail Maintenance Yard Location Article 1 The Argonaut: Santa Monica Santa Monica City Council endorses hybrid proposal for light rail maintenance yard location BY GARY WALKER (Created: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:12 PM PST) Despite objections from residents who believe ...
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• How Do Brits Like to Be Green?

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  How do Brits like to be green, and what green behaviors do they still avoid? That’s what a new survey by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) , the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) , and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is showing us by examining the environmental ...
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• XOR Motors aims to offer an extraordinary folding electric scooter for the road

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 426
  Photo courtesy XOR MotorsElectric vehicles offer vehicle designers more freedom to create differently shaped machines that could never have existed before that offer radically new capabilities.  The XOR scooters by XOR Motors certainly fit that... Links:  ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 23

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 520
  East Antarctica is melting . CO2 atmospheric concentrations are the highest in 2 million years . Green innovation needs more than a price on carbon . Cheery news this Cool Green Morning! But if we’re going to Hades, at least we’re taking the bus there…fasten your seat belts and drive deep into today’s green ...
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• I know what keeps Obama awake at night…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 155
  Let’s say we spend our $2 trillion in stimulus and get a couple of quarters of weak growth. Then once the effects of the stimulus wear off, we slip back into a deep recession, setting up a classic “W.” Unemployment never does stop climbing. This happened to Roosevelt in the thirties. So congress passes another ...
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• Green Line Take 2 - Rolling

  
  Welcome — Authority: 117
  Friday the 20th, 2009, at 4:20pm (yes, 4:20) I boarded the Clackamas bound Green Line at Pioneer Square.  I’d knocked out a solid 43+ hour week and stepped out a little early for a ride about. The LRV set was a Type-4 Style, and arrived with about 15% seated occupancy.  At Pioneer Square that increased to ...
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• Year anniversary of Gateway Transportation Center

  
  UrbanReviewSTL — Authority: 130
  A year ago today the ribbon was cut on the Gateway Transportation Center in downtown St. Louis ( view post ). 11/21/2008 This station includes both Greyhound bus and Amtrak train and is adjacent to a MetroLink light rail station and a regional bus hub  ( map link ).  It is a transportation mecca.  Someone ...
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• A few words about Amtrak

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 143
  Recently, my wife and I took the train to Kansas City. It was only the second time on a train for both of us. A couple years ago I went to Springfield, IL on a day trip with my grandson.…
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• Tracking the DASH Online

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 541
  How sweet is this?  On Monday, LA DOT started a public beta for receiving live tracking information of your friendly neighborhood DASH service.  If you go to http://dtdash.com on your computer or phone, LADOT has provided four equally convenient ways for you to get your bus information:  1) you can live ...
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• New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service [Rants]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto...
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• Finally Moved, Still No Car, and Many Fold Transit Increase

  
  Welcome — Authority: 117
  Well, finally we are moved from SE 21st & Powell on the east side of the river to the south west side of the river, immediately downtown.  Just slightly east of the PSU campus, right back where Jo & I originally moved to when we left the wretched city of Jacksonville. We now have access to almost every ...
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• I Will, I Will Mock You

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 541
  Public Eyebrow Groomer as seen on a Metro Bus Since I began my adventures in public transportation earlier this year, I have seen a lot of rude, inappropriate and often strange behavior from my fellow carbon-based life forms. I have seen people carelessly put their shoes on bus seats.  I have seen someone leave a ...
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• Coney Island Ferry Revisited

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 139
  With the city trying to breathe new life into Coney Island, they’re also looking to revive a dead idea: ferry service.Following last week’s announcement that the city purchased 6.9 acres of amusement district real estate from Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt for $95.6 million, they have started a consultant search ...
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• Short of Funds? Give the Feds More Power

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  In 2006, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 298 subway cars in the Washington Metrorail system are “ vulnerable to catastrophic telescoping damage ” and should be replaced or reinforced immediately. They weren’t, which was a major reason why nine people died in a rail collision last June. In ...
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• Denver, Support Your Transit

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 134
  I talk about a lot of abstract social things that aren’t going to change a lot anytime soon and a lot of big political things that are either impractical or removed from my own concerns to the point that I won’t feel a ton of direct impact. However, this is something very near and dear to me: If Denver-area ...
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• The Illusive Dream of Modern American Rail

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 518
  For a total of 7 minutes train geeks can rejoice while riding Amtrak’s Acela Express glides at 150 mph in America’s northeast corridor. That track, located in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, totals 18 miles and ...
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• Wednesday Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Why America leads the world in medical innovation. If the health care overhaul bill were a medical product it would have to come with a warning label, which could read something like this: Warning: This product will increase your health insurance premiums, make your children poorer and won’t make you ...
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• Is Ottawa Waging War on Children?

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 427
  The city of Ottawa is debating whether or not children are of lesser value than other residents, at least that is the crux of the proposal from the city’s transit committee.  The committee is suggesting new regulations be adopted that will severely restrict access to the city’s publicly subsidized bus system, ...
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• Mass Transit-Oriented Smart Growth Melds Environmental, Labor Interests

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  (photo by theorris) Recently there has been a lot of focus on a possible “blue/green alliance” among the political left in this country. The idea is that union workers would build the new equipment for the green economy. Things like solar panels and wind turbines. Clearly the idea appeals to those who long for ...
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