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• Do you really think they’re there to represent you? Or to gain wealth for themselves?

  
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  Mac Slavo May 20th, 2013 SHTFplan.com     They write the rules. One set for them. One set for us. 50 million of our fellow countrymen starve and depend on paltry government distributions to put food on the table every month. Millions have lost their homes and their jobs. And future generations are saddled with ...
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• Why Do Transit Officials Lie About Light Rail?

  
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  The transit agency for Vancouver (C-TRAN) is reconsidering its support for the Columbia River Crossing Project, which includes light rail to Vancouver. In a staff report prepared for this week’s C-TRAN board meeting, the following claims are made: Light rail … Continue reading →
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• Major track replacement plan announced for Sheffield Supertram

  
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  Sheffield’s tram network is to undergo a £32 million track renewal programme to replace the system’s ageing infrastructure. The network’s operator, Stagecoach Supertram, and owner, South Yorkshire Transport Executive (SYPTE) will jointly fund the replacement. Most of the work will be carried out over the next ...
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• Comedy Gold At Tri-Mess

  
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  Testifying against a bill aimed at making the TriMet board of directors more accountable to taxpaying citizens, head honcho Neil McFarlane actually came out with this gem: “I would sort of ask the question,” McFarlane said, “what is broken with TriMet?” A better question would be: what isnt broken at ...
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• Unlike Porkland, Minneapolis Gets It

  
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  Porkland continues to waste invest billions in tax dollars and cash borrowed from China to build little light rail and streetcar lines, but they dont have anything much that makes them worthy of the term "public transit": due to downtown Porklands uniquely small city blocks, the light rail "trains" can never ...
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• Regional Connector: Regional Connectors Bunker Hill Stop Could Get Grand Avenue Pedestrian Bridge Link-Up

  
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  The Regional Connector line , a nearly two-mile-long subway linking the Blue, Expo, and Gold lines, is in pre-construction and will start heavy-duty work next year. Theres a station planned at Second and Hope , in a current traffic median behind the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the under-construction Broad Museum ...
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• Local Contribution 101

  
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  Submitted by Professor Robert Dean http://tinyurl.com/aldfdov Let’s get started. Mike Briggs, thank you for launching into facts, now, in the ongoing debate over the costs and benefits of the CRC to the local community. I know numbers are not your thing so I’ll try to make it simple for you. OK, ...
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• The Great Clark County Collusion Caper Debunked

  
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  As we in Clark County are aware of, given we have been inundated for over a week now of article after article from the local mouthpiece hating the hiring of Don Benton to head the county department of environmental services, allegations of “collusion” have been raised in an effort to stir up citizens to support a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hitler Finds Out Don Benton Was Hired

  
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  Hitler gets wind of Don Benton being hired to head the Dept of the environment and realizes all of blustering and scheming  with certain people won’t change a thing
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• Tri-Mess And The Train To Nowhere

  
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  The former transit agency (now a development agency) is spending $1.5 billion to build a 7.3-mile light rail line into northwest Clackamas County, despite the fact that most county residents oppose it. By the way, that $1.5 billion is only the construction costs; operating the "trains" will cost extra, as has been ...
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• Colorado celebrates National Train Day

  
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  In late April, RTD celebrated the opening of the West line of light rail. (Photo By Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post) By Jim Souby Guest Commentary This Saturday (May 11), we celebrate National Train Day, commemorating the driving of the “Golden Spike” in 1869. This ceremonial spike secured the last ...
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• Multipurpose Trains

  
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  MAX Light Rail is the centerpiece of the citys public transportation system  As if the gang-bangers werent enough, Tri-Mets light rail "trains" have also been serving as places of business for a prostitution ring. Giggity! Talk about convenience.... Last Tuesday (05/07/13), cops and transit police participated ...
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• New “Light Rail Links” coalition indicator of Surrey momentum

  
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  Surrey is getting serious: Surrey business and community groups are  launching a new campaign to get light-rail transit on track for south of the  Fraser. The Surrey Board of Trade announced a new  coalition — Light Rail Links — which is joining the call for an LRT solution to  the region’s lack of rapid ...
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• More at Risk of Homelessness, So Recall Those Trying to Prevent It

  
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  There is little doubt that the Lazy C, legally known as the Columbian, the unofficial daily newsletter for the Democrat Party is one of the poorest excuses for a newspaper seen. Their bias reeks as does their contradictions in articles often published. It’s not unheard of to see one article one day boasting of home ...
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• Lazy C Sets New All-Time Record, Stirs Up Lynch Mob, But Fails to Oust Benton

  
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  The Lazy C, the unofficial daily newsletter for the Democrat Party, the Mouthpiece is well known for their deep leftist bias, in spite of denials from editorialista Lou Brancaccio. Legally registered under the title the Columbian, too many times they have exposed themselves as anything but objective, all too often ...
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• Crenshaw Line: Metro Windfall Wont Help Crenshaw Lines Leimert Park Stop

  
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  The same day that Metro delayed making a decision on whether the Crenshaw Line would include a Leimert Park Village station, it got news that it received $390 million from the state to improve public transit and air quality. The majority of that money will go to the Regional Connector tunnel in DTLA thatll ...
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• We Must Build More Transit and Better Urbanism

  
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  Kate Wolford’s Star Tribune commentary calling for more transit was spot on. Our peer cities (Denver, Portland, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, hell, even St. Louis!) are ahead of us in terms of built rail miles, lines and stations. We must do more than catch up to remain an attractive metro area for all. Rail miles, ...
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• Tri-Mess Defense Team Swings Into Action

  
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  The Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon while fully raised.  Great story in The Oregonian today about yesterdays light rail failure, and the story illustrates why the newspapers lost another nearly 8% of its circulation during the past year. Crack Zero reporter Joseph Rose homes in on the problem which ...
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• Disappointing French ruling on Veolia still paves way for suing occupation profiteers

  
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  Versailles court dismisses appeal over French corporations’ involvement in Jerusalem light rail project.
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• Maryland to update public on Purple Line progress

  
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  The Purple Line has been out of the news for a while, so heres a refresher: The Purple Line is a purple line on planners maps of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties that gets argued about from time to time because it could someday be a transitway. Read full article >>        
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