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• Status quo at AMT

  
  Fagstein — Authority: 473
  File photo of a train for illustration win! At midnight Friday night, CN locomotive engineers went on strike, following their 72-hour notice that sent everyone in a panic because two AMT train lines (Deux-Montagnes and Mont-Saint-Hilaire) are run by those engineers and would have been disrupted or even shut down if ...
  16 hours ago

• Renewed Metro tax campaign will test St. Louis values

  
  The Platform — Authority: 535
  Last November , St. Louis County voters narrowly defeated Proposition M, a half-cent sales tax that would have supported public transit operations and infrastructure. It would have raised an estimated $80 million a year for a system that faced a $45…
  2 days ago

• Of mice, public transit and term papers

  
  Imaginary Sunshine — Authority: 129
  Today’s been pretty good. I slept in a bit this morning, and did get to class on time this morning (well, I was about 5 minutes late – but my prof had only gone through two lecture slides by the time I got there) and I went to my biology lab. Friend and lab partner, R, was late (it was an optional lab, but it was ...
  2 days ago

• Millionaires and Mass Transit

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• État d’urgence

  
  Spacing Montreal — Authority: 503
  Arguably the biggest public space event of the year. Montreal-based arts collective ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) is hosting État d’urgence from Nov.25-29 at Place Emilie-Gamelin (metro Berri-UQAM). According to ATSA co-founder Annie Roy, the event is a mani-festival used to bring together the ...
  3 days ago

• Joel Young: The hidden costs of health care

  
  Living in the O — Authority: 463
  This guest post was written by Joel Young, a lifelong Bay Area resident and a member of the AC Transit Board of Directors. As the raucous health care debate plays out in Washington DC, I have become increasingly aware of the stakes for the Bay Area. Skyrocketing health care costs touch us all, and in ways you might ...
  3 days ago

• You Are Stupid!

  
  The Streetcar Chronicles — Authority: 125
  S let me know about People of Public Transit last night and we killed ourselves laughing at this video. You know the Asian lady means business when she takes her purse off of her shoulder.I’m kind of jealous of San Francisco, I haven’t seen anything that exciting on Toronto Transit in awhile. [...] Related ...
  4 days ago

• The Evening Dig: “Miss G Train” Edition

  
  INFRASTRUCTURIST — Authority: 560
  . A Brooklyn Museum held a beauty pageant for riders of the G Train, and two ladies and a drag queen came out on top. Click through for a slideshow of the contestants. ( Village Voice ) Highway travel is up 2.5% from last year, as many Americans resume driving and refuse to take flights for vacations. But until the ...
  5 days ago

• Metro will give us a holiday train if we tell them we want it!

  
  Curious Feet St. Louis — Authority: 110
  Metro will do a holiday MetroLink train this year if there is enough public interest. It would run every Friday and Saturday in December. I am SO EXCITED about this! If I were still in St. Louis, I’d volunteer to be an elf! The Chicago Transit Authority has a long-running tradition of running a Santa Express ...
  5 days ago

• MetroLink Prom photos!

  
  Curious Feet St. Louis — Authority: 110
  Grossly belated! My apologies–moving to Michigan ate my free time. Here are links to photos from MetroLink Prom! If you have a link of your own (or a link to Prom photos you’ve seen around the web), please share in the links section and I will put them up! Miss MetroLink’s own album from 2009 Nazim ...
  5 days ago

• The D Train Murder: Why Crimes on Mass Transit Scare Us So Much

  
  INFRASTRUCTURIST — Authority: 560
  In case you don’t check the front page of the New York Post every morning to see the latest on the city’s most heinous crimes  (ahem, not that we do) the big story today is about a passenger who was stabbed to death yesterday while riding a Bronx-bound D train, at around two in the morning. The accompanying ...
  5 days ago

• DTA to provide free, rechargeable EZ-Cards

  
  Howie Blog — Authority: 144
  In an effort to speed up the paying of fares and boarding of buses, the Duluth Transit Authority will be giving away rechargeable EZ-Cards during December for riders purchasing 31-Day Passes or Stored Value Cards with a minimum of $10 cash value at the Downtown Transit Center or the DTA Operations Center in the West ...
  5 days ago

• Episode 83 of On the Log: A Desire Named Streetcar

  
  John's Place — Authority: 127
  This week, I speak with Peter Muller of PRT Consulting about Personal Rapid Transit , an approach to solving some of the issues around traditional public transit that have hindered its more widespread acceptance. Direct link to episode This week’s music Extra Century Perception by The West Exit ...
  6 days ago

• The Winter Olympics, Getting Around

  
  In the Know Traveler — Authority: 119
  In Vancouver, transit officials believe that the traffic restrictions in place for the 2010 Winter Olympics will lead to an increase of 20 percent in the number of people using public transport. Currently, 800,000 people use transit each weekday. To help with the increased numbers, 180 extra buses, a third Seabus, ...
  1 week ago

• Assembly passes authority oversight measure

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 558
  Meet Richard Brodsky. He is an influential Assembly representative from Westchester, and he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. More about him in a minute. Yesterday afternoon, the New York State Assembly approved a sweeping bill that would bring more oversight to the state’s 700 public authorities . ...
  1 week ago

• Pizza is also Italian and greasy

  
  And with your help, I'll get that chicken — Authority: 126
  It doesnt happen often, but there are times the Toronto Transit Commission simply shines ( other times it simply shuts down ). Every Wednesday, you can buy extraordinarily plain rectangles of pizza, of varying sizes and freshness, for a dollar each. Theres nothing really remarkable about Pizza Pizza pizza itself (real ...
  1 week ago

• Proposed RTA cuts

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 435
  In order to balance its 2010 budget, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority proposed cutbacks of between 12% and 21% of current service levels. A 12% reduction would entail the discontinuation of all or most of 32 bus routes . RTA will hold eight public hearings in early January.
  1 week ago

• Ann Arbor’s ranked 5th Best Digital City in Nation

  
  Ann Arbor Homes and Real Estate Update — Authority: 115
  Ann Arbor has been recognized for its efforts to reach citizens electronically- mainly through its website- by a national publication. E.Republic’s Center for Digital Government and Digital Communities magazine ranked Ann Arbor as fifth Best Digital City in the country in its population category. The City of Ann ...
  1 week ago

• Fight against Oakland Airport Connector leads to FTA civil rights investigation of BART

  
  Living in the O — Authority: 463
  I didn’t expect to be writing about the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) anytime soon, and I certainly didn’t expect to be sharing good news about it. Well, ok, maybe it’s not good news about the OAC, but I do have some incredible news to share about the outcome of our efforts to stop the OAC. Today, Public ...
  1 week ago

• Bike Sharing Comes to Silicon Valley

  
  Autopia — Authority: 747
  The San Francisco region always has been a great place to ride a bike, what with its great scenery, Mediterranean climate and thriving cycling community. From the earliest days of mountain biking to the barely controlled chaos of Critical Mass, the Bay Area has long been at the forefront of bike culture. Another ...
  1 week ago

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