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• New site studies why (and where) wildlife cross the road

  
  The Latest Word — Authority: 678
  A newly launched website allows Colorado motorists to log on and report sightings of wildlife along the I-70 corridor between Golden and Glenwood Springs. While handy for alerting highway m...
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• VDOT Prepared for Winter

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 438
  Getting ready for 2009 snow season As the 2009-2010 winter season approaches, emergency response, including snow- and ice-removal operations, continues unchanged as a core service, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). “We remain committed to our mission as an emergency response agency. ...
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• Heavy traffic jams at the Southeast Expressway due to road work

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Massachusetts, Nov 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There have been enormous traffic jams throughout the whole of eastern Massachusetts due to a spate of numerous state road projects from Bourne to Lowell.“You can’t escape the traffic,” said Arthur Brussard, owner of Truck Courier in Woburn. “It’s extremely disruptive.” ...
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• Part 4. Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Gets in Bed with the Cato Institute.

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  SocratesChildren   Ninety percent (90%) of the opinion in the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) report on high speed rail is status quo, anti-public investment, and emphatically Cato Institute doctrine. This essay present eleven (11) ...
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• Commonwealth Considers Revisions to Six-Year Improvement Plan

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 438
  The Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 1, to solicit public comments about essential rail, transit, transportation demand management, bicycle, pedestrian and highway projects in the Working Draft of the Revised Fiscal Year 2010-2015 Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP) ...
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• Ave U, Gravesend Stations Delayed: No Surprises

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 135
  Just one month shy of the first-year anniversary of construction at the Avenue U and Gravesend Neck Road train stations , the sites reek of the failures soon to ail the rest of the line. Artists rendering of completed station rehabilitation at Neck Road. The station will have wider platforms, larger ...
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• Toll roads, train terminal deals, and MARTA’s clean bill of health

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 589
  A quick rundown in the weeks transit and transportation news
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• Highway 40 to reopen Dec. 7

  
  Along for the Ride — Authority: 116
  Highway 40 (Interstate 64) will reopen to the public Dec. 7 — a month early and under budget, officials said this morning. It was announced at a press conference. St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay…
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• SBites Presents: The Rants Of A Livery Cab Driver

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 135
  At the far corner of Sheephead Bay, where it joins Manhattan Beach and Brighton Beach, is a sign that causes a whole mess of confusion, traffic backups, and horn honking. One might think it’s pretty clear: “After  Stop Right Turn Permitted On Red Except 8am – 4pm School Days”. You might ask yourself what’s ...
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• PennDOT Offices Will Close Veterans’ Day

  
  The Sanatoga Post — Authority: 444
  Veterans Day 2009. HARRISBURG PA – All Pennsylvania driver license and photo centers will be closed next Wednesday (Nov. 11, 2009) in observance of Veterans Day, the state Department of Transportation announced. This event has been added to The Post calendar . However, customers may still obtain department ...
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• Lynchburg Area Traffic Advisories

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 438
  Traffic advisories for Lynchburg area. Highway work is scheduled weather permitting in the Lynchburg District and traffic may be restricted. For the latest real-time traffic information, please call 511 or visit www.511Virginia.org . Amherst County: Mike McCormack, Residency Administrator (434) 946-7631 Route ...
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• 460/501 Ramp Paving Planned

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 438
  Plan for traffic disruptions Motorists may wish to plan alternate access to Routes 460 and 501 at the interchange near Falwell Airport and Florida Avenue in Lynchburg over the next several weekends. Crews under contract to the Virginia Department of Transportation will continue paving the ramps at the interchange. ...
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• Sen. Robert Duncan’s hired flights

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  (Return to story on state senators’ travel. Go to page 1 and page 2.)Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, spent more than $15,800 on flights through the state Department of Transportation or chartered through a hometown firm, Lubbock Aero. That’s according to state travel records covering Jan. 1, 2008 through May 1, ...
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• State senators rack up big bills using charter flights, personal planes

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  Continued from page 1.Where are senators traveling? Check out some highlights by clicking on the Google Map below. Click the text below the map to see a larger version.View Texas state senators’ travel, 2008-09 in a larger mapMost senators bought commercial plane tickets when they needed to travel by air, according ...
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• M-Parking: mobile commerce makes parking more profitable

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 586
  At the Mobile Commerce World event in San Francisco today there was a great presentation about the effect of mobile technologies on parking management (it doesn’t sound too fascinating from the description I know, but bear with me). The case study was presented by the Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles ...
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• Fed’s med-marijuana ruling: Does it affect workplace drug bans?

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 138
  The U.S. Justice Department has announced it won’t enforce federal laws banning marijuana use for medical purposes, and some states have OK’d prescription pot. So, how do those rulings affect workplace anti-drug policies? Most importantly, if your firm bans the use of marijuana — medical or otherwise — as ...
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• DDoT: 15th Street Bike Lane Operational by Week’s End

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 535
  Can you stand another posting on the 15th Street NW bike lane? I am nearing my limit, but here goes.DDoT told me yesterday that the contraflow-southbound bike lane on 15th Street NW—the one that will between parked cars and the west curb—should be operation by week’s end. Parked cars on the west side of 15th ...
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• CityWatchLA - LA’s DIY Bike Plan

  
  SoapBoxLA — Authority: 521
  CityWatch, Nov 3, 2009 Vol 7 Issue 90 The City of Los Angeles took another swing at the public hornets nest when it released LAs Draft Bike Plan, a 563 page document that cost $450,000 and took two years to complete, stirring such public contempt that the cycling community simply put down the protest signs, formed ...
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• Bikers told to ride on sidewalks in Brooklyn

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 592
  Miss Heather presents: Great Moments in Municipal Idiocy
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• Bay Bridge Expected to Reopen Today

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 514
  According to reports, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is expected to finally reopen today. After being closed since last week, it appears that tests were done on a repair job on the eastern span overnight and this morning showed that the fix was holding. From KRON : “Last night we were finally able to get ...
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