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Study: Traffic Collisions Cost $299.5 Billion a Year, Leading Killer of Americans 5-34 (National Journal) Commuter Transit Tax Benefit Set to Expire This Year (TransNat) Detroit Buses Back in Service After Strike Over Safety for Drivers (Hill, Detroit News) CA HSR: To Build Big and Bold or Small and Less Costly? (Politico) Obama’s Vision for HSR … Continued

By Kathryn Reid Moore

8:56 AM EST on November 8, 2011

Study: Traffic Collisions Cost $299.5 Billion a Year, Leading Killer of Americans 5-34 (National Journal)
Commuter Transit Tax Benefit Set to Expire This Year (TransNat)
Detroit Buses Back in Service After Strike Over Safety for Drivers (Hill, Detroit News)
CA HSR: To Build Big and Bold or Small and Less Costly? (Politico)
Obama’s Vision for HSR Across America Continues to Stall (MSNBC)
Op-Ed: Sprawl Is the Real Enemy of Rural Living (Baltimore Sun)
Chicago Hopes to Boost Transit Use by Allowing Buses on Shoulders (Chicago Tribune)
Los Angeles’s Disadvantaged Population Denied Transportation Options (NRDC)
Amsterdam, Portland Show That Bikes and Light Rail Are Allies (GGW)
Spinlister Company Aims to Bring Peer-to-Peer Bike Sharing (BikePortland)

Kathryn Reid Moore

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