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• Transit to Trails

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 422
  Transit to Trails takes inner city youth and their families and friends on fun mountain, beach, and hiking and biking trips. The project enriches their education about water, land, wildlife, and cultural history, and the importance of physical activity and healthy eating for life-long health.In April 2007, Secretary ...
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• Fare’s Fair?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  When does transit fare policy treat people unequally? When it treats them exactly the same. Why? At the risk of overgeneralization, there are two major constituencies for mass transit. First are wealthier workers who commute to jobs in city centers where parking is expensive. The other group consists of the very ...
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• Fare’s Fair?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  When does transit fare policy treat people unequally? When it treats them exactly the same. Why? At the risk of overgeneralization, there are two major constituencies for mass transit. First are wealthier workers who commute to jobs in city centers where parking is expensive. The other group consists of the very ...
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• Walk..or Bus...Score

  
  The Green Workplace — Authority: 413
  Last year, we shared a fun favorite: walkscore . A cool tool then...even cooler now. Walkscore now incorporates transit information like bus stops in its calculations. Pretty awesome. Check out what came up for the HOK WDC Office: A score of 98 isnt too shabby. Of course, one of the restaurants on the list ...
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• Taking a Survey

  
  Welcome — Authority: 119
  Jo and I, while checking out the new apartment in downtown on Sunday, decided to swing by Powell’s to find some books.  We arrived with no fuss via the streetcar and went about our business.  As we walked through though I noticed a table where TriMet was taking a survey of drivers, riders, or whoever.  I ...
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• Gold Line to East Los Angeles to open this weekend (Source: Pasadena Star-News)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 131
  Link: Gold Line to East Los Angeles to open this weekend - Pasadena Star-News Gold Line to East Los Angeles to open this weekend Posted: 11/10/2009 02:05:24 PM PST LOS ANGELES - The Gold Line Eastside Extension, which will connect the end of the Gold Line at Union Station to within one miles of the city border ...
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• Riding transit

  
  Off the Wall — Authority: 116
  One thing you can say about public transit: It may not be cheap or convenient, and you learn more about people’s personal hygiene than you ever wanted to know, but there’s nothing like it for people watching. Sometimes, the people are just outlandish – and I say that as card-carrying eccentric myself. For ...
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• Roundup of articles on the Regional Connector

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 131
  Link: Curbed LA: Regional Connector: Know All the Possible Downtown Stops           Roundup of articles on the Regional Connector           Article 1           Regional Connector: Know All the Possible Downtown Stops Monday, November 9, 2009, by Neal Broverman See link for all ...
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• Subway extension debated

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 131
  The Daily Bruin | Subway extension debated Subway extension debated Community considers pros, cons of bringing Metro Purple Line to Westwood Boulevard By Kelly Zhou Nov. 9, 2009 at 2:17 a.m. For maps, click here and here . UCLA students expressed both their encouragement and concern for the Westside ...
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• Deal reportedly reached to avoid CTA fare hike

  
  The Sixth Ward — Authority: 136
  Greg Hinz : Transit officials and Gov. Pat Quinn have reached agreement on a deal that will avoid a threatened Chicago Transit Authority fare hike, both in 2010 and 2011. According to reliable sources, the deal involves the Regional Transportation Authority issuing bonds for capital projects that would be funneled ...
  18 hours ago

• More RTA cutbacks likely

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  In order to balance its 2010 budget, RTA leaders are considering additional service cuts and extending earlier temporary fare increases .
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• Remembrance Day events affect transit services, November 11

  
  Transit Toronto - Weblog — Authority: 145
  Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11 , many communities in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton commemorate and honor veterans of Canada’s wars with processions and ceremonies. Specifically, the Remembrance Day events in Acton (Halton Hills), Aurora , Barrie , Bowmanville (Clarington), Brampton , Burlington , ...
  22 hours ago

• London Roadwork is Heating Up

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 142
  This isn’t the kind of "hot" that I’d have associated with the infrastructure projects currently underway. Maybe Premier McGuinty has discovered the solution to the problem of nuclear waste disposal? This shot was taken with my cellphone earlier this afternoon at Dundas/Colborne.
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• Ignorant, Stupid Driver

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 142
  Drivers who are so self-absorbed or intent on beating red lights that they’re willing to put other people at risk. That’s been getting worse here for decades, helped a lot by insufficient police enforcement. But the absolute height of ignorance has to be drivers who disregard emergency vehicles, something that ...
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• With Road Trains, Highways Become Public Transportation

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  Researchers in the European Union are using telematics to create “road trains” that join the benefits of carpooling with the freedom of driving alone. The latest concept, part of the EU’s Safe Road Trains for the Environment initiative, groups cars with similar destinations into road trains over long ...
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• STREET SCENE: Abstract Street Car Rolling West

  
  Spacing Toronto understanding the urban landscape — Authority: 524
  Abstract but very real too. Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese .
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• RTA Ridership Model Update

  
  Extraordinary Observations — Authority: 510
  Last month I built a statistical ridership model for Clevelands RTA system. One major concession was that I excluded a service-level independent variable because I lacked sufficient data to include it in the model. Unsure how to resolve this issue, I recently received this email from someone at the Maryland Transit ...
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• The Newest, Shiniest Metros in the World (A Slideshow)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  While subways in the worlds developed countries are starting to look like the dinosaurs of urban infrastructure (with expansion delays and budget crises to boot), new metro systems continue to spread across the world. As emerging cities seek to answer the needs of booming populations -- or ease the traffic and ...
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• Transit Tuesday: Tipping the Balance

  
  Track Twenty-Nine — Authority: 124
  Transit Tuesday is a new weekly feature or profile on transit. On October 1st, MARTA, Atlantas heavy rail operator, switched from referring to subway lines by cardinal direction to color-coding. In making this change, MARTA has tipped the balance. Of the 13 heavy rail systems in the United States, a majority - ...
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• hillsborough getting serious about transit?

  
  Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog — Authority: 128
  The local dailies report that Hillsborough County is “one step closer” to putting a transit tax to a vote:Commissioners voted 5-2 to have the county attorney craft a resolution saying... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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