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D.C. Considering Lifting Mandatory Parking Minimums
(photo by vpickering via flickr)The District of Columbia’s Office of Planning is considering a proposal to potentially squeeze the supply of available parking spaces in some neighborhoods as new...
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Sequestration Means Less $$$ To Harden Northeast Transit Against Future Storms
One of eleven major NY subway tunnels flooded by Sandy. (photo by MTA New York City Transit / Leonard Wiggins)(New York, NY - WNYC) New York area transit has received a double setback, both having to...
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Car Sharing, Transit and Bike Access Could Render D.C.'s Parking Minimums Moot
A parking garage in Georgetown (photo by AlbinoFlea via flickr)(Washington, D.C. - WAMU) Downsizing parking is necessary to reduce car dependency in D.C., says one real estate expert.Chris Leinberger,...
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How A Fake Train Station Could Improve Public Transportation In Miami
(Arianna Prothero, WLRN) Over the weekend, public transit advocates in Miami built a temporary train station along an imaginary transit line. They called it the Purple Line, sticking with the theme of...
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Anti-Islam Ads Return to Muni
A controversial Muni ad from last year's campaign by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (photo from flickr user Steve Rhodes)(San Francisco - KALW) Many San Franciscans were shocked by anti-Islam...
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Was your heartbeat racing, as fast as your wheels?/ When you flipped over on the Mass Pike, like a clown on a peel (...of a banana)It was just such fears that led the federal government to shutter...
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Private Contractors May Not Be the Answer to Public Transportation Cuts
Fairfield Transportation Center (photo from Fairfield and Suisun Transportation's website)(The Bay Area -- KALW) As cities across the country face steep budget cuts, many local governments are looking...
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Manhattan Buses Will Have Real-Time Status Updates ... A Bit Later than Planned
Real-time bus information is coming to spreading around the NYC transit system. The New York City version of live updates on bus location known as Bus Time will expand to Manhattan, Brooklyn and...
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DC Metro Says Fare Increase & Loss of Tax Benefit Caused 2012 Ridership Dip
Buying fare cards at Metro's Smithsonian Station (photo by Ian Muttoo via flickr)The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) says the one-two punch of last year’s fare increase coupled...
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Following Public Pressure, Metro Will Add More Bus Service to DC's Busiest...
Commuters at 16th and U Streets NWAdditional morning rush hour service is coming to Metro’s busiest bus corridor in Washington after the Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commission took commuters’...
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Infrastructure report card says $3.6 trillion needed by 2020
Former Pa. Governor Ed Rendell (Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in backdrop)The nation’s infrastructure received a D+, a slight improvement from the D issued in 2009, in an infrastructure report...
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Maryland's Future Transit Hub "Severely Compromised" by Construction Errors
Silver Spring Transit Center (photo by ThisIsBossi via flickr)(Matt Bush -- Washington, D.C., WAMU) An independent report on the yet-to-be-opened Silver Spring Transit Center shows the transit hub is...
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NY School Bus Workers Face Major Pay Cut
Dina Nero on strike in the Bronx (photo by Stephen Nessen/WNYC)(New York, NY -- Stephen Nessen, Schoolbook/WNYC) New York City school bus workers are expected to have their pay slashed and benefits...
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How a D.C. Suburb Avoided the Capital's Traffic Nightmare
Arlington's Wilson Boulevard and North Lynn Street at night. (Photo CC by Flickr user Mrs. Gernstone)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) While the District of Columbia grapples with proposed changes to its...
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Fung Wah Investigation Leads to 2nd, More Shocking Shut Down Order,...
The U.S. Department of Transportation has again formally ordered Fung Wah Bus company, one of the most well known "Chinatown bus companies" credited with helping to pioneer the now popular business...
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LaHood Doles Out Another $1.42 Billion To Transit Hit By Sandy
(New York, NY - WNYC) The federal government is making available the balance of $2 billion promised to transit agencies hit hard by Sandy. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told transit...
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A Blind Rider's Long Commute, or How Transit Cuts Hit Those Who Need It Most
Buddy Yates and his guide dog Palmer wait for the bus in Seattle, Wash. (Photo by Derek Wang / KUOW)(Derek Wang, Seattle, Wash. -- KUOW -- Audio) It’s 3:00 p.m. on a recent workday in Seattle and Buddy...
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Seattle Could Cancel Nearly 30 Percent Of Bus Routes
Seattle bus (photo by Oran Viricincy via flickr)(Derek Wang - Seattle, KUOW) King County Metro could eliminate of almost a third of its routes.Ongoing budget woes are forcing the Seattle transit...
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Maryland County Approves Millions More for Troubled Transit Center
Maryland's Montgomery County Council approved an additional $7 million to pay for construction work already completed at Silver Spring Transit Center, which is already two years behind schedule and...
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Why Tolls Will Be Waived On One Virginia Highway This Weekend
495, shown last year while under constructionNearly five months after opening, the operators of the 495 Express Lanes are struggling to attract motorists to their congestion-free toll road in a region...
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