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TN MOVING STORIES: Car Use Declining In North America, Paris to Transform Roadways Along the Seine, Chicago’s Bike Share Delayed 8 Aug 2012 | 08:55 pm
The Los Angeles Metro's Blue Line is on pace to have more deaths in 2012 than any other year in its 22-year history. A week after a close call at Reagan National Airport, the FAA has banned aircraft f...
MAP/VIDEO: How To Survive, And Occasionally Thrive, In New York Penn Station, The Continent’s Busiest Train Hub 8 Aug 2012 | 07:17 am
(New York, NY – WNYC) New York’s Penn Station is rail hub as ant colony: tight-cornered, winding and grimly subterranean. Like ants, 600,000 passengers per weekday course through it, pausing only to s...
Pedestrian Deaths Rose 4% in 2010: Federal Report 8 Aug 2012 | 06:59 am
Pedestrian deaths rose 4% in 2010 — marking the first time in five years that the number has risen. According to a new report released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 4,280 pede...
Virginia Breaks Ground on I-95 Express Lanes 8 Aug 2012 | 06:28 am
Virginia broke ground on a plan to improve and expand 30 miles of High Occupancy Toll lanes along a stretch of the state’s I-95 corridor. Like the 495 HOT lanes, the I-95 Express Lanes will be located...
Alternate Side Parking Rules Lead To More Driving: Study 8 Aug 2012 | 06:08 am
Alternate side parking rules — put in place to facilitate street cleaning — actually increase driving in the New York City area. In a soon-to-be-published study looking at driving behavior in places a...
Why Transportation Planning Gets It Wrong 8 Aug 2012 | 12:07 am
Virginia is juggling a number of major infrastructure projects. And when money is tight, finding the right mix of roads and transit becomes increasingly important -- there is no way to undo a $2 billi...
Curiosity Mars Rover Lands on Mars, Looks for Life 7 Aug 2012 | 10:49 pm
What’s the size of a car, but travels over 13,000 miles an hour? That would be the Curiosity Mars rover, which touched down on the Red Planet Monday after eight months of travel (not to mention "seven...
TN MOVING STORIES: NJ Transit Revising Weekend ‘Bikes on Trains’ Policy, Fire at Bay Area Chevron Refinery Closes BART Stations 7 Aug 2012 | 08:52 pm
Voters in Houston will decide whether they want the city's transit taxes to go exclusively to transit -- or be split with other agencies for road work. San Francisco's parking meter policy aims to mak...
Woodrow Wilson Bridge Construction Complete, Without Transit Lanes 7 Aug 2012 | 04:21 am
(Washington, D.C. — WAMU) Ten years after construction began with the dredging of the Potomac River, the $2.5 billion Woodrow Wilson Bridge improvement project opened to motorists on Monday morning in...
Tix On NY Commuter Trains Will Be Valid Longer…But A Refund Will Still Cost $10 24 Jul 2012 | 06:25 am
Tickets on this Metro-North train will be valid longer, starting in September. (traingeek/flickr) (New York, NY – WNYC) Starting in September,Long Island Railroad and Metro-North riders have more tim...
