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Chicago: City Outlines Bus Only Lanes
Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago's Department of Transportation and the CTA today released details on a new public transportation initiative called Bus Rapid Transit...
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National: Virginia House/Senate Strike Transpo Deal
Transportation Nation
In a final attempt to reach a compromise on measures to raise substantial new revenues for transportation before the scheduled adjournment of the legislative session, Virginia House and Senate negotiators struck a deal that replaces the state's gas tax with a lower tax on the wholesale price of gasoline, but raises the sales tax...
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National: White House Infra Plan Wants Repair First
Transportation Nation
President Barack Obama's new $50 billion infrastructure plan - a remarkably consistent number he's pushed several times before - has a twist...
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International: Estonia's National Car Charge Network
Guardian UK
tonia's reputation as one of the most wired-up countries in Europe has been boosted further with the opening of what is being billed as the world's first nationwide electric car charging network...
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National: SimCity Continues to Influence Education
Toronto Star
Educator says the program not only teaches math, engineering and science skills, but it challenges students to take on a complex set of problems as a group and come up with innovative solutions...
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International: Investors Should Look Outside Istanbul
Hurriyet Daily News
As the housing supply has surpassed the demand in Istanbul, construction companies should go and invest in developing cities like İzmir, Bursa or Diyarbakır, the environment minister has said..
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New York: NYU's Big Data Campus
Crain's New York
When real estate broker Misha Chiporukha leaves his Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, apartment on Livingston Street and Flatbush Avenue, he is bombarded with New York noises: Buses exhale at the stop in front of his door...
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Orlando: FL Sen May Tighten Tax Breaks in Urban Areas
Orlando Sentinel
Florida senators signaled Wednesday that they may tighten state tax breaks designed to spur development in urban high-crime areas and polluted brownfields, following recent Orlando Sentinel reports about both programs...
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National: Multifamily Housing Starts Drop Sharply
24/7 Wall Street
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported this morning that new housing starts in January slipped to an annual seasonally adjusted rate of 890,000, a sharp decrease of 8.5%..
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Kentucky: Senators Attack Agenda 21, Sust. Development
Courier Journal
I have seen vultures circling over the Kentucky state capitol, but never any black helicopters. Yet a Kentucky Senate Committee today voted 7-1 to approve a bill that seeks to curb a feared United Nations takeover of environmental policy in the commonwealth...
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International: Making Cities Safe for Women and Girls
Guardian UK
The World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty is focusing on how to tackle violence against women and girls in public spaces..
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