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March 3rd, 2014 

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Pennsylvania In Motion: Transit Bill Aims To Improve Infrastructure And Public Transit 
-Mondaq



PennDOT Secretary: More Turnpike
Connections Down The Road
-CBS 3 Philly



Midstate Transportation:
Turnpike part of rebuilding effort
-Cumberland Sentinel



Deteriorating Sellersville Bridge Closed
-CSNphilly.com



Editorial
All aboard more city train service
-Philadelphia Inquirer



Road builders, drillers top donators
to Gov. Corbett's campaign coffers
-Meadville Tribune



SEPTA delays implementation
of New Payment Technology
-Delco Daily Times



SEPTA Considers Restoring
Late-Night Subway Service
-NBC 10



Drexel, Amtrak, Brandywine
weigh giant development plans
-Philadelphia Inquirer



Comcast development bills
breeze through Planning Commission
-PlanPhilly
 


Commuter train: NJ progressing,
while 'plans in Pa. have not left station'
-Pocono Record



Inga Saffron

Changing Skyline: SEPTA needs to
solve bus 'pass-up' roulette
-Philadelphia Inquirer



Transportation bill's impact felt immediately
-Johnstown Tribune-Democrat



Poconos to reap benefits of gas tax
-Pocono Record



Rail authority gets $675,000 grant
-Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice



Attytood
Stop the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
(and its cousins) before they kill
-Philadelphia Daily News



Pa. court ruling opens turnpike records
to prosecutors despite
attorney-client privilege claim
-Delco Daily Journal



Perkasie councilman:
Station could be community center
-Doylestown Intelligencer



Rail siding eyed to lure business
-Sharon Herald



Pew report: City's middle class is shrinking
-Philadelphia Inquirer



Pennsylvania fifth in the nation
in hazardous spills
-newsworks



Bacon competition examines
Philly with driver-less cars
-PlanPhilly



Green Streets Design Manual makes
street "greening" transparent, accessible
-PlanPhilly



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Building Healthy Places in the Lehigh Valley
-ULI


New Jersey

 

 

DRPA leaders mixed on PATCO takeover 

-Philadelphia Inquirer

 

 

 

 

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Christie: NJ Must Borrow Again to Fix Roads  

-New Jersey 101.5

 

 

 

NJ Transit's new director  already faces desk full of problems 

-Newark Star-Ledger

 

 

 

Transportation Experts Urge   

Bistate Blue-Ribbon Panel   

to Fix Port Authority 

 -NJSpotlight

 

 

 

NJ Transit One-Seat Ride Program   

To Start March 3rd  

 -Roselle Park News 

 

 

 

Port Authority plans do-over   

on NJ Transit park-and-ride lease 

 -Newark Star-Ledger 

 


Nation & World
 

Rail funding, safety expected to dominate industry's Capitol Hill agenda in 2014
-Progressive Railroading



Highway Trust Fund Ticker:
Running Toward Empty
-DOT



Obama Unveils Smart New
Transportation Plan, But
Not How to Pay For It
-Mother Jones



Steinberg: Replace Cap-and-Trade
With Carbon Tax for Vehicle Fuels
-capital public radio



Illinois's New Highways
Will Cost Taxpayers Dearly
-StreetsBlog Chicago



Rick Brown

More beneficial use of highway money
-Panethos



Todd Litman
Road Tolls Are Fair and Benefit the Poor
-Planetizen



Matti Siemiatycki
Privatization won't solve
Toronto's transit problem
-Toronto Star



Eric Jaffe
How Driverless Cars Could Save
the Government Lots and Lots of Money
-The Atlantic Cities



Business, labor groups
push for gas tax hike
-The Hill



Proposed Delaware gas tax
contains hikes for inflation
-DelawareOnline




A Reminder: Congestion Pricing
Will Save Lives
-StreetsBlog SF



Potential safety benefits stir
calls to discuss fees for downtown drivers
-San Francisco Examiner



Yonah Freemark
Why More U.S. Cities Need to
Embrace Bus-Rapid Transit
-The Atlantic Cities



Walkable Communities -- Isn't that what
we had before the invention of the wheel?
-Penn State U.



Making Streets Safer for Seniors
-StreetFilms



The Best Complete Streets Policies of 2013
-Smart Growth America


High Speed Rail-Go-Round


Steve Cohn
A different vision for California train travel
-Sacramento Bee



CA Rail authority meeting funding
agreements, creating Valley jobs
-TurlockJournal.com



Editorial
Take steps now to prepare for high-speed rail
-Hanford Sentinel



High-speed rail would cost Colorado $30 billion
-Denver Post



St. Clair County hopes $500K will lure
high speed rail station to East St. Louis
-BND.com



Improving portion of high-speed rail
corridor could cost $1.5 billion
-Chicago Tribune



Kawasaki Heavy to bid to supply
trains for U.S. high-speed rail link
-Japan Times



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