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San Antonio: Streetcar Plan Approved by TTC
San Antonio Express News
The Texas Transportation Commission approved taking $92 million in state dollars set aside for U.S. 281 and Loop 1604 and putting it toward VIA Metropolitan Transit's downtown streetcar system...
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New Jersey: Trains Put in Flood Zone Despite Warnings
Reuters
New Jersey Transit's struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy is being compounded by a pre-storm decision to park much of its equipment in two rail yards that forecasters predicted would flood, a move that resulted in damage to one-third of its locomotives and a quarter of its passenger cars...
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International: Kenyans On Board with Nairobi Rail
Christian Science Monitor
In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, which is wracked by traffic jams ranking among the world's worst, getting in and out of the city is a challenging task. So it is no surprise that riders of its newly launched commuter rail are enthusiastic...
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California: Judge Backs California HSR Over Farmers
USA Today
A judge denied a request Friday from Central Valley farmers who sought to halt work on California's ambitious high-speed rail project, allowing work on the $68 billion project to continue at an aggressive pace...
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Bay Area: More Trains, Second Tube Needed
San Francisco Examiner
In the coming years, BART is going to have a lot more riders than it can handle, which means the transit agency is going to need a lot more money to buy a lot more trains...
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National: Mica to Lose Transportation Post
Orlando Sentinel (via Streetsblog DC)
U.S. Rep. John Mica, newly elected to his 11th term in Congress, is fighting this week to keep his place within the Republican leadership -- even though the Winter Park legislator is unlikely to stay atop the powerful House transportation committee...
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National: Who Could be Next Transpo Secretary?
Governing
As President Barack Obama begins his transition into a second term, transportation stakeholders and advocates are wondering who he'll tap to join his cabinet as the next transportation secretary...
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Bay Area: Alameda County Tax Measure Loses at 66%
Contra Costa Times
Alameda County's Measure B1 is an apparent loser. It would have increased the county's transportation sales tax to a full 1 cent and made it permanent...
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Research: Funding for New and Small Starts Projects
Government Accountability Office
Local funding exceeded total federal funding contributions for the 25 New Starts projects, accounting for $16.3 billion, or almost half, of $33.8 billion of total project funding (see figure below) from October 2004 through June 2012...
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International: Can East End Ever Rival Silicon Valley
Guardian UK
Is east London's digital revolution really happening or is it just a PR exercise? There is certainly a large news flow...
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Seattle: Sound Transit to Study Ballard Service
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The city of Seattle and Sound Transit will look into new "high-capacity" transit between Seattle and Ballard, under an arrangement the agency's board approved Thursday...
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National: Walkability Driving Developers, Market
Washington Post
Before he moved to his current U Street neighborhood - and to Dupont Circle before that - Doug Rogers knew exactly how long it would take to walk to the Metro, the grocery store, the pharmacy and local restaurants...
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Bay Area: Santa Rosa Station Plan Triggers Tax Lawsuit
Press Democrat
Santa Rosa is being sued over the taxing structure underlying plans to intensify development around the future rail station near Coddingtown mall...
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Australia: Fear of a Second Docklands
The Age
AUSTRALIA'S largest-ever urban renewal project at Fishermans Bend risks becoming ''worse than Docklands'' as the Baillieu government makes compromises in the chase for foreign investors, experts warn...
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International: Myanmar's Yangon Fights Sprawl
The Wall Street Journal (Behind Paywall)
Long known as the city time forgot, Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, is fighting a battle to modernize its feeble infrastructure and preserve its charming architectural relics without turning the metropolis into a snarling, generic megacity as the Asian country emerges from economic isolation...
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