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Golden State Highways Are A California Nightmare : NPRGolden State Highways Are A California Nightmare A A November 23, 2009 California is known for its car culture. But it turns out those wheels are rolling over some of the worst roads in the nation. A recent study ranked California 49th out of the 50 states for the quality of its pavement. ...
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Lodi, still grappling with transit cuts, seeks inputBy Maggie Creamer News-Sentinel Staff Writer Friday, October 9, 2009 5:55 AM PDT Hands flew in to the air at LOEL Center after Paula Fernandez, Lodi's transportation manager, asked how many people use Lodi's bus system to get to church on Sundays. "There is a high population of old, ...
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Technology Review: Forget Curbing Suburban SprawlBuilding denser cities would do little to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, a new NAS report concludes. *********** Even if 75 percent of all new and replacement housing in America were built at twice the density of current new developments, and those living in the newly constructed housing drove ...
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D.C. Bike Shelter Gives Commuters A Ticket To Ride : NPRD.C. Bike Shelter Gives Commuters A Ticket To Ride A A September 2, 2009 Just outside Washington, D.C.'s central train station, construction is under way on a sleek, modern, glass-and-metal bike garage. "Some people say it's a half-football or a shell," says Mazen Soueidan, the project ...
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Technology Review: Lithium Battery Recycling Gets a BoostLithium Battery Recycling Gets a Boost The DOE funds a company that recycles plug-in vehicle batteries. The US Department of Energy has granted $9.5 million to a company in California that plans to build America's first recycling facility for lithium-ion vehicle batteries. Anaheim-based Toxco ...
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Federal Transit Administration - Civil Rights & AccessibilityThe Federal Transit Administration's Office of Civil Rights is in the process of conducting three-day trainings on FTA's civil rights requirements in FTA regional office cities. The training will review Federal laws, regulations, executive orders, and guidance covering the Americans with ...
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Local and Regional Funding Mechanisms for Public TransportationTCRP Report 129: Local and Regional Funding Mechanisms for Public Transportation and the Local and Regional Funding Database, which is posted on the TRB website at http://trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=9599, will be of interest to public transportation systems, local and regional ...
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From Obama, a 2-Pronged Plan on Mileage and Emissions - NYTimes.comObama Sets New Auto Emissions and Mileage Rules WASHINGTON — President Obama announced tough new nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards on Tuesday, embracing standards that California has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush ...
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Creating a ‘Car-Free’ Community - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comIn a new suburban district of Freiburg, Germany that discourages driving — a “car-reduced” community called Vauban — there are only two places to park a car, and both are at the edge of the development. As I note in my story in Tuesday’s New York Times, 70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own ...
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Commercial Campus Meet Sustainability (carefully)Google Rents Goats To Replace Lawnmowers (I’m Not Kidding) In what absolutely reads like an April Fools joke, Google has a post on its blog today explaining how it has rented a herd of goats to replace the lawnmowers that normally cut the grass in the fields around its headquarters. This is ...Ray Krueger added 7 months ago
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