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LA Times: Buses are their route to a brighter future 0 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 1 1610
Public Transit Is Underfunded Because the Wealthy Don’t Rely on It 4 KamaAina Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 2580
What’s the Deal With San Francisco’s 11-Year Bus Rapid Transit Project? 0 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 2333
Fear & Zoning At Mt. Sinai: A One Act Play 0 phantom power Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 1743
Mark Warner: Metro's Silver Line Delays Are Costing Millions, and Annoying Commuters 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 1 3185
Toronto: Five biggest transit myths 0 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 1 1703
Charles Barkley is new at this whole public transit thing...... 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 2040
L.A.'s airport train that doesn't go to the airport 1 marmar Aug 2013 Dec 2013 1 2315
BART considers charging peak-hour premiums 6 KamaAina Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 2639
A Metro Station In Georgetown? It Could Finally Happen 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 1 2022
Feds say Metro-North Safety Record 'Unacceptable' 0 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 3 1795
Toronto, meet your new streetcars 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 4 2832
Twin Cities: Building a better bus stop 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 1 2358
Detroit: Removal of I-375 could come as I-94 is widened 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 2158
Twin Cities: Complaints rise about Metro Transit bus drivers 1 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 2301
UK: The railway workers trained to stop suicides 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 1763
Task force: billions needed to fix transit in S.F. 1 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 1863
The suburbs: No longer the American Dream? 1 marmar Aug 2013 Nov 2013 2 2749
Los Angeles: Gate dilemma will keep Metro rail riders on honor system 1 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 2126
D.C.: Metro GM Apologizes After Especially Bad Week On Red Line 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 3102
San Francisco: Rats scatter from Central Subway construction 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1865
Golden Gate Bridge Tolls Could Hit $8 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1701
SF: Driverless Muni Metro train takes off in tunnel 2 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 2112
Chicago: Ventra outage hits 60 CTA stations, results in 15,000 free rides 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1729
NYC motorists killed three pedestrians Monday -- on the sidewalk 2 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 2140
Public Transit in Chicago has gone to the reptiles...... 1 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1914
NY Toll Authority Out of Control 0 Renew Deal Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1929
Chicago: Ventra boss 'can't guess' when new fare system will work 2 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 2289
Detroit: M-1 Rail Project Now Is In Process Of Selecting Streetcars 1 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 3 1969
D.C. Metro To Begin Running New Railcars In Late 2014 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 3 2438

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

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Hamburg is planning to make cars superfluous in the next 15-20 years 0 marmar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 7 2382
BART Permanently Lifts Rush Hour Bike Ban 5 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 2857
NYT: From China to Los Angeles, Taking the Electric Bus 1 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 1851
Turkey's Bosphorus tunnel to open sub-sea Asia link 1 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 1897
NYT: Commuting’s Hidden Cost 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 1670
Chicago: South-leg Red Line commuters in for smooth ride Monday after five-month rebuild 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 1652
How One D.C. Suburb Set A Gold Standard For Commuting 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 1776
Paris' Traffic-Cutting Gamble Charms Pedestrians, Irks Drivers 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 1637
D.C. fails to pay Metro; funds held up due to shutdown 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 1913
Texas DOT denies $1.6 million for El Paso bicycle-sharing program 4 marmar Aug 2013 Oct 2013 1 2410
Seriously, Get on the Bus! New Analysis Shows Fiscal, Environmental Benefits of Buses 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2013 Oct 2013 1 4247
Chicago: CTA Works to Stem Crash-Related Blue Line Delays 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 1746
Video sneak peek of the Washington Metro's Silver Line 0 marmar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 1715
Seattle: Light-rail start to U District, Capitol Hill may come early 1 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 0 1920
Living Near Good Transit May Make You Happier 2 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 2 2077
D.C.: Metro Ridership Is Down, But Transit Experts Aren't Worried 1 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 2 1983
The Silver Line makes its way onto the Washington Metro's map 4 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 8 3225
SF: Bike path flaws add millions to Bay Bridge bill 0 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 0 1825
Observation - LA Metro 3 pinto Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 2171
Mexico City's traffic Infierno 0 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1881
NYC Trumpets 2012 Street Statistics: More Transit, Less Traffic 0 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1939
Fairfax County Grapples With Huge Silver Line Costs 0 marmar Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1747
D.C.: Survey shows most people want more transit, walkable places 3 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2666
NY Observer: Vanity Project: Why Fancy Architecture Won’t Save Penn Station 0 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1941
Subway Stations With Amazing Art 6 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 3922
New York's Penn station – and other ugly train terminals around the world 2 marmar Jul 2013 Aug 2013 2 8064
NYC: More and More commuters working in the outerboroughs: Data 0 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1796
Maryland Seeks Private Operator for Purple Line 0 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1880
London Strolling 0 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1843
Hours to Go, Just to Get to Work: Indonesians Cope With Infuriating Traffic and Inefficient Transit 0 marmar Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1813

Public Transportation and Smart Growth Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Traffic island 'beach' opens in downtown Detroit 4 marmar Jun 2013 Aug 2013 2 3439
72-hour coast-to-coast Amtrak ride condensed to just over 3 minutes 1 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2993
Chicago: A Vision for Bus Rapid Transit on Ashland 1 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2664
NY Times: MTA Ponders Transit for a New Generation 0 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1870
Did Sprawl Kill Horatio Alger? 0 phantom power Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1891
NYC Kills Fast Bus to LGA 3 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2387
Defining Clear Standards for Transit-Oriented Development 0 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2022
Seattle: Rasmussen Drops Bike-Share Bill; Funding Proving More Difficult to Wrangle 0 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1722
Detroit Metro Times: The Complete Streets initiative for Woodward 2 marmar Jun 2013 Jul 2013 1 2484
To Urbanize or Not To Urbanize? Virginia Residents Divided Over Metro Expansion 0 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1928
Storms and flooding wreak absolute havoc on Toronto commute 2 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2377
Toronto: Metrolinx price tag for Scarborough subway leaves councillors fuming 0 marmar Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1978
After 20 years of talk, Crenshaw/LAX rail line gets green light 0 marmar Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1905
Chicago Launches Bike Share: A Divvy Day One Dispatch 0 marmar Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1925
Senate Panel Okays Funding for D.C. Transit 0 marmar Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1829
NOW Toronto: Cure for King: Time for tough choices on car-congested streets 1 marmar Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2266
Poll: Bike Sharing Widely Popular After First Month (NYC) 1 marmar Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2249
Article on Detroit filled with inaccuracies 5 KamaAina Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2844
"They say San José is going to become another Los Angeles." 0 KamaAina Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2501
Ann Arbor's vision for high-capacity transit taking shape with possible Connector routes mapped 0 marmar Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2194
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