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Indy’s Cost Effective Transit Improvement Plan Is A Model For Low Density Cities
Aaron M. Renn's looks at the transit improvement plans in Indianapolis for the city’s first Bus Rapid Transit line. Indy’s system is a model for how lower density cities with auto-centric cultures can start making major improvements in their transit offerings in a...
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CNN: Uber wants to compete with public transit. These experts are horrified
Uber took down the taxi industry and now it wants a piece of public transit. That has transportation and urban planning experts deeply worried. For years, as it aggressively entered new markets, Uber has maintained that it is a complement and ally of public transit....
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Seattle Times: How did Sound Transit’s $15 billion tax request reach $54 billion? Republicans say they were misled
"GOP legislators say they thought they were authorizing $15 billion in taxes when they voted in 2015 to let Sound Transit ask voters to expand transit. How did that become $54 billion? Legislators put no expiration date on the taxes. Now they say they were misled."...
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A new ‘trackless electric train’ (aka a bus) starts testing in China
A new approach to trackless transit - trains not constrained to actual tracks, but it instead following virtual ones using tires and an electric powertrain – much like a bus. Read the whole story at...
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Seattle Times: Who’s really in the driver’s seat on Puget Sound transit spending?
Seattle Times editorial columnist Brier Dudley says, "Transportation Choices Coalition has evolved from a community group advocating for bike, pedestrian and transit options into a political powerhouse with little transparency that coordinates ballot measures and...
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O’Ban, Rossi call for investigatory hearings on Sound Transit
Article excerpt: "Sens. Steve O’Ban and Dino Rossi are calling for an investigation into whether Sound Transit engaged in a “systematic effort to confuse and misrepresent the impact and cost of the ST3 authorization to legislators and the public.” In a letter sent...
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Q: Would ST3 reduce congestion? A: It would not.
Despite assertions by Sound Transit and its supporters that ST3 will ease traffic congestion in the reason, it simply isn't true....
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FACT CHECK: Sound Transit ballot measure not a big climate saver
"Sound Transit 3 would shave about 1 percent off the region's vehicle travel and less than half a percent off the emissions our region is expected to put out in 2040, based on projections by the Puget Sound Regional Council." Read more at KUOW:...
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ST3 Reduce Congestion? Of Course Not!
Mass Transit Now spokesman Prof. Mark Hallenbeck’s response to whether the $54 billion ST3 will reduce traffic congestion? “HA! Of course not!” Commuters and taxpayers aren’t laughing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du07e25ajTM
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WSJ: Take a Ride on the ‘Tide-tanic’: You’re Paying for It
"The Cost is the Benefit" with light rail lines that go out beyond dense urban cores. Excellent article that will sound all too familiar for those of us here in the Puget Sound region. Read the whole piece here:...
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