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• Melbourne, Australia: A Model for New York City?

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:47 pm

  Tags: Transit, Out Of Town, Urban Design, Parking, Buses, Livable Streets, Quality Of Life

  With apologies for my carbon footprint, I recently returned from a working tour of eight cities Down Under. The trip included an invitation to Melbourne to work with the staff of the city's successful new public space development, Federation Square, and to help lead a Placemaking training course that included many city staff, local

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• Probably, you should give up that handicap seat

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:47 pm

  Tags: Buses

  Giving up a seat is more than just a suggestion sometimes. (Photo by flickr user ggtavo.) So, you know those priority seats on the bus? Yeah, it’s probably a good idea to give them up. Or so one Queens passenger discovered on Friday. In a story The Post reported yesterday, a bus driver in Queens took exception to a young passenger who

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• Express buses don’t stop there. Ever.

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Mta Absurdity, Buses

  of empty MTA express buses didn’t stop to pick up subway riders stranded by Wednesday’s torrential rains because no one told bus drivers to alter their routes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s NYC Transit division has about 600 express coaches, and the MTA Bus Company, another division, has several hundred

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• Feds to NYC: “Get on the Bus”

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: Buses, Congestion Pricing

  MTA will roll out 367 new buses, upgrade pedestrian walkways around some stations and build a dedicated bus lane across the East River. The grant will also provide $112.7 million to fund New York City's long-promised Bus Rapid Transit project. Ferries get $15.8 million too.Still, it all depends on New York City and State legislators' approval.

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• Bus Stop

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Buses, Congestion Pricing, Eliot Spitzer, Floods, Memorials, Mta, New Jersey, Pets, Richard Braun, Weather, World Trade Center

  • Sure, the Feds promised Bloomberg $354 million for his traffic-reduction plan (if he can get the city and state to pass it), but that dough's mainly to put up new bus depots. Of the roughly $200 mil needed to charge drivers entering Manhattan, Uncle Sam's promised only $10 million. [NYT]•Spitzer chief of staff Richard Baum, soon

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• The Urban Transportation Report Card

  Published: August 20, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Air Quality, Transit, Urban Planning, Parks, Transportation Policy, Livable Streets, Buses, Car Culture, Bicycling, Pedestrian Safety, Public Health, Quality Of Life, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  Transportation Alternatives has teamed up with cycling advocates from Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle to issue the Urban Transportation Report Card (PDF), which rates these cities' progress on greening their transportation systems. The report notes that transportation accounts for 20-60% of carbon emissions in major U.S. cities, so it

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• First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan

  Published: August 24, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Manhattan, Buses

  A camera-phone toting tipster reports seeing workers installing what appears to be New York City's first-ever real-time bus status display board this morning inside a bus shelter at First Avenue and E. 14th Street along the M15 route. We'll put in some calls to the MTA and DOT to get the details. Unfortunately, for now it appears that the new

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• Camera-equipped buses could automatically ticket San Franciscans

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:54 pm

  Tags: Bus, Buses, California, Crime, Illegal, Law, San Francisco, Sanfrancisco, Ticket, Ticketing, Tickets

  would be installed on city buses," which would then be used to automatically ticket the owners of vehicles that are caught "blocking buses." The cameras would presumably be used to photograph vehicles that are in bus-only lanes, and interestingly enough, the proposed law also authorizes Municipal Transportation Agency "employees to access

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• Telecommuting: I’m on the fancy new WiFi bus. Seems ...

  Published: October 3, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Buses, Diary, Straight Talk Express, Telecommuting

  I’m on the fancy new WiFi bus. Seems to be working so far! But that could change! Also, there are no A/C outlets! There will still be content today, though, I promise. And Ken said he’s...

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• Telecommuting: I’m on the fancy new WiFi bus. Seems ...

  Published: October 3, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Buses, Diary, Straight Talk Express, Telecommuting

  I’m on the fancy new WiFi bus. Seems to be working so far! But that could change! Also, there are no A/C outlets! There will still be content today, though, I promise. And Ken said he’s getting up early. Update: It just stopped working! Then it started working again!

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• Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights

  Published: October 3, 2007, 10:49 am

  Tags: Livable Streets, Parking, Air Quality, Queens, Buses, Pedestrian Safety, Public Health, Quality Of Life, Car Culture

  Community activists in Jackson Heights have been complaining about congestion at the corner at 73rd St. and 37th Ave. (right) for years. A major traffic study of the area is underway, but according to a DOT spokesman, the department didn't want to wait to implement "short-term initiatives" that could ease the problem. Problem is, some of

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• Aer Lingus

  Published: October 3, 2007, 8:17 pm

  Tags: All, Gaeilge Irish, Buses, Bus Tha Cliath, Commercial Decision, Commercial Viability, Entire Community, Irish Version, Language, Irish, Gaeilge, Dublin Bus, Rumour, Logos

  Gaeilge / Irish, Buses, Bus  tha Cliath, commercial decision, commercial viability, entire community, irish version, Language, irish, Gaeilge, dublin bus, rumour,

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• Mounties bust Montreal-based international telemarketing scheme

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:47 pm

  Tags: Canada, Europe, Montreal, Allegedly, Arrest, Belmont, Bilked, Building, Buses, Contacted, Crime, Downtown, Escort, First Aid Kits, Government, Homes, Inflated, Involved, Locations, Medium Sized Businesses, Mounties Bust, Police, Posing, Prices, Products, Raid, Rcmp, Representatives

  "RCMP expect to arrest about 100 people after cracking down on a telemarketing scheme in Montreal Tuesday. read more

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• The Turbine on the Bus Goes Purr Purr Purr

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Transportation, Environment, Buses, M T

  There's a kind of hush all over 42nd Street this week. That sound you may not hear is the new hybrid bus that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is testing.

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• Welcome to the 21st Century, NYC buses

  Published: October 11, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Buses, Mta Technology

  I had no idea that hybrid buses got just 3.5 miles per gallon. I can only wonder what the 3800 non-hybrid buses are doing to our air, and I have to believe that those empty buses running late at night aren’t doing the environment any favors. For that reason alone, I’m in favor of a more fuel efficient bus, but this bus may just be

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