Amtrak Cutting Some Summer Fares By 25 Percent
WASHINGTON — Amtrak is cutting fares by 25 percent on some Eastern trains this summer as the national passenger railroad looks to boost demand d...
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Scritti Politti: May 18, 2009
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media
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Folks, if you hear just one interview with Department of Transportation Secretay Ray LaHood conducted as the secretary made his way by car to Peoria, ...
Rail Stimulus Gift Of $44M Comes Early For Washington
Yahoo! Finance | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
SEATTLE (AP) -- Sound Transit is getting $44 million for a light rail extension to the University District in Seattle sooner than expected....
The Coolest High Speed Trains In The World
businessinsider.com | Jay Yarow | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green
"There are those who say high-speed rail is a fantasy -- but its success around the world says otherwise," Obama proclaimed on the day he announced th...
Chicago Transit Ridership Up 9 Percent In Last Five Years: RTA
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
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More area residents used public transit, and there was more public transit to use between 2003 and 2007, according to a Regional Transportation Author...
Bridging the Transportation Gap
Louise Nelson Dyble | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
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When the government agency overseeing mass transit and the government agency building highways are distinct and uncoordinated, they compete for money, and the public loses.
Subway Heroes: Our Favorites
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green
Mass transit is awesome. Subways are awesome. I spend a lot of my time riding (and waiting for) trains. As a result, I stare at a lot of train tra...
Public Transit Use Booming, So Why Is It Struggling?
usnews.com | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
Is your city's public transit suffering? Chances are, yes. Ridership on public transportation nationwide has increased exponentially - and is now a...
The United States of Transit Cutbacks
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
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One of the sad ironies of our time is that, as demand for public transportation is soaring to levels not seen in 50 years, the recession has dampened government support for transit.
Google Maps "500% Greener," Includes More Mass Transit
treehugger.com | Posted 04.06.2009 | Green
According to Google: In one year, the total number of cities for which people can plan transit trips with Google Maps has grown to more than 250 ...
Robots Now Driving Some New York City Trains
nypress.com | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green
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Mass transit developments abound this week -- this time, it's the most futuristic-sounding item yet. New York subway trains along one line will be dri...
Subway Map Porn For The Mass Transit Freak (SLIDESHOW)
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
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I love mass transit. In any city where I get to use a subway, a light rail or a bus system, I spend a lot of time just staring at the maps, because th...
Heart-Shaped Subway Map And More Fun With Transportation
treehugger.com | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
We like talking about promoting public transit here on Treehugger and at Planet Green, noting that cities and countries that get it right can create a...
High-Speed Rail Still Missing From Stimulus
Wall Street Journal | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
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The Senate's revised stimulus bill provides $2 billion in funding for a high-speed rail corridor, as well as another $1.1 billion to upgrade existing ...
Study Shows Stimulus Will Fight Global Warming
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green
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According to NRDC, floods, droughts, sea level rise, and other global warming impacts will create a $271 billion drag on the U.S. economy by 2025 alone.
Senate Looks To Boost Mass Transit, Highway In Stimulus
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to give a tax break to new car buyers, setting aside bipartisan concerns over the size of an economic stim...
Mass Transit Slighted: Searching For The "Green" In The Stimulus Package
TPMDC | Elana Schor | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green
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We've been talking about this for a while now, but mass transit is getting woefully little attention in the economic recovery proposals released so fa...
Going Green For Beer: Poor Mass Transit In The US Makes Alcohol More Dangerous
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.06.2009 | Green
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President-Elect Barack Obama is under pressure from all sides to create exactly the right kind of economic stimulus package -- some want it green, som...
Mass Transit Won Big On Election Day
TreeHugger.com | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green
November 4th was a good day for democracy in general (most of the voting went off without a hitch) and Democrats in particular. But lost in all the ex...
GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green
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GM's special role in history must now evolve into using its infrastructure to restore the mass transit system -- and ecological balance -- it has helped destroy.
Gearing Up to Advance the Green Economy
Howard Learner | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
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The Midwest and Great Plains states can become business and economic winners in growing the new green economy.
AIG's Failure Hits Urbanites Where They Live
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
Last Friday shaped up to be a pretty bad day for my friend Ryan Avent, who blogs about sensible urban planning and transit issues at The Bellows. Not...
Public Transit Use Surges 5.2 Percent In US
AP | SARAH KARUSH | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green
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WASHINGTON — The nation's public transportation systems logged a 5.2 percent jump in ridership in the second quarter, according to industry figu...
Death of a Dream, Giving Birth to Another
Richard Stuebi | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that raised the heretical question: is the American dream of suburbanism being killed by high gas prices...
Offshore Drilling Won't Help, But "Green Stimulus" Can
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
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On This Week, McCain again mentioned "offshore drilling" as part of a plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil. And he got away with it.
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