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On Board Video Cam Shows a Rare Collision Between a Train and a Bus in Houston, TX
According to the The National Safety Council, riding public transportation is over 170 times safer than riding in a private car. But accidents do happen and mass transit isn't immune. Read further for more about the recent collision
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Developing Cities from India to Colombia Leapfrog Ahead With Clean, Green Bus Rapid Transit Systems
Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of
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Are Podcars The Future of Transit?
Over at The Transport Politic, Yonah Freemark notes that it is a slow week in the blog world, so he wrote a post about Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT, sometimes called Podcars. Nothing outside of Obama vs Palin gets people so riled up; he has 91
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November Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
November was a
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Best of Infrastructurist: Floating Trains, The World's Sexiest Bus Stop and 15 Hot New Careers In Infrastructure
Look Who's Building Floating Trains... Trains that levitate on magnetic tracks have been the future of transportation for decades--but with one operating successfully in China now
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Eco-Rally to Transverse America
Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start
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Greyhound Australia Donates $12,000 Solar Panel Under Travel Green Program
We knew that bus travel was a much more sound means of transit than flying, but who knew it could also pay off so handsomely. One lucky family who travelled on Greyhound buses in Australia have scored themselves a free 1 kW solar panel system, worth
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The Dream DOT Director? DC's Gabe Klein Interview (Video)
Image credit: StreetFilms Capital's DOT Director Discusses "Leveling the Playing Field" As I said in my post about the San Francisco intersection turned park, the best thing about StreetFilms videos is that they don't just show you cool things - but
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Dartmouth U Students Spend Summer Vacation on Green Road Trip
Riding the "Vehicle for Change," a team of 15 Dartmouth College grads and students "dedicated to diminishing environmental and economic issues through education," clamored aboard the Big Green Bus to drive 12,000 miles across the US. On June 17, they
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San Francisco Installing Solar Powered, Wi-Fi Ready Bus Stops
While some bus stop ideas are pretty futuristic, solar powered bus stops have been around for awhile. Back in April, we heard San Francisco was planning to install solar powered bus stops, and last week Mayor
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Istanbul Public Transit Proves Up to the Task
Extraordinary circumstances can bring out the best in people--and in transportation systems. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area,
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StreetFilms Posts 200th Film on Liveable Streets
200 Bike, Pedestrian and Transit-Friendly Videos There is an awful lot of sustainability-oriented video content out there on the web. But few are as entertaining, as pertinent and as down-right informative as those produced by our friends at
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March Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
The 5th World Water Forum held two weeks ago in Istanbul dominated the
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Mexico City to Require Students to Take School Bus To Reduce Traffic and Pollution
Mexico City's minister of the environment, Martha Delgado, announced Friday that in August a pilot project requiring students to take school buses instead of private vehicles to school at 10 private schools would commence.
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Calcutta Tramways Buses Make Switch to Biodiesel Blend: 35% Lower Pollution Expected
Indian Railways has already been running some of its trains on biodiesel. Now Calcutta Tramways Corporation has announced that it will be running its buses partly on biodiesel: A memorandum of understanding with Emami Biotech
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Subway Seats on your Feet
Now you can put the seats on your feet---the distinctive fabric from the seats of the London Underground ( aka the Tube) have been made into shoes. The fabric was originally designed as part of the original over-all concept,
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How Many People Need to Ride the Bus?
I am currently in Germany doing what is lovingly referred to as a life cycle assessment "boot camp." Today we are "freestyle" modeling different problems to find some preliminary results and present them this afternoon to our
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Hold Onto Your Carbon Footprints: The U.S. Mass Transit System is Preparing to Gouge Riders Big Time!
It is a sad state of affairs when things are hurting so bad in the economy that we can't even count on the things which could help save us. While over the past year we have seen record levels of public transit riders, we are going to
