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• Rainy Portland Thanksgiving Day

  
  Welcome — Authority: 119
  Just a few photos of my coffee run from today.  I was out of grounds, so off to the streetcar. Victory, Colombia El Jordan.  Excellent beans! The streetcar zooms into focus, and yes, it was actually zooming up to the stop relative to its normal speed. Clarity of the drops on the window ...
  3 hours ago

• Millionaires and Mass Transit

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 495
  Happy Thanksgiving! Now that the bird is in the oven, I have time for a quick post. This is from a nice blog called "Crash Course: Edward Ericsons annoyingly didactic musings on the Financial Meltdown" over at Baltimores City Paper . I always liked Baltimore, and now I have one more reason. Hat-tip to Choire over ...
  15 hours ago

• Hip-Hip-Hooray! San Gabriel Valley Comes Together to Celebrate Future (Source: I Wil Ride)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 133
  Link: Hip-Hip-Hooray! San Gabriel Valley Comes Together to Celebrate Future « I Will Ride Blog Hip-Hip-Hooray! San Gabriel Valley Comes Together to Celebrate Future Posted by Albert “To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of ...
  16 hours ago

• Are small cars doomed to fail in the American market?

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 530
  Will higher gasoline prices finally push Americans into smaller cars?
  1 day ago

• Feds Contemplating Raising Gas Tax To Fund Infrastructure

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 485
  While this Star Ledger report is focused on funding the ARC Tunnel that would add capacity on the Northeast Corridor and NJ Transit, the problem is that the federal government is chasing after money from a declining revenue source. Theyre looking to raise revenues sufficient to cover mass transit and other ...
  1 day ago

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

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• How Do Brits Like to Be Green?

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• XOR Motors aims to offer an extraordinary folding electric scooter for the road

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 428
  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:  ...
  3 days ago

• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 23

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• I know what keeps Obama awake at night…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Green Line Take 2 - Rolling

  
  Welcome — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• A few words about Amtrak

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 144
  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.…
  6 days ago

• Tracking the DASH Online

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 542
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service [Rants]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 866
  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...
  6 days ago

• Finally Moved, Still No Car, and Many Fold Transit Increase

  
  Welcome — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• I Will, I Will Mock You

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 542
  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: 746
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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