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Purple toll lanes, overhead lane-use control signs, and more crosswalk time for pedestrians are all coming soon to a road near you, as the U.S. DOT makes its first update in six years to the nation’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (UPI) Did one affordable-housing nonprofit in New York City really get $156 million … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:49 AM EST on December 17, 2009

Purple toll lanes, overhead lane-use control signs, and more crosswalk time for pedestrians are all coming soon to a road near you, as the U.S. DOT makes its first update in six years to the nation’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (UPI)
Did one affordable-housing nonprofit in New York City really get $156 million in federal stimulus money? Not so much (NYT Blogs)
Building America’s Future, headed by Rendell, Schwarzenegger and Bloomberg, praises House jobs bill but calls for six-year “reformed” transportation bill and a National Infrastructure Bank (BAF Press)
Florida Gov. Crist (R) signs major rail expansion legislation (St. Pete Times)
New research shows that the benefits of smart growth go beyond saved fuel emissions (NRDC Blog)
Do wind turbines have a negative effect on community health? Nope, says a new study (NYT Blogs)
Improving transit’s environmental efficiency: It’s a necessary, if politically inconvenient, pursuit (The Transport Politic)
Hybrid buses come to Savannah, and new streetcars on their way to D.C. (Savannah Now, WaPo)
Washington state DOT is squeezing in 24 new road stimulus projects thanks to low construction bids (Seattle P-I)