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June-26-09: Toronto council approves streetcar deal City was facing midnight Saturday deadline to accept – or lose – the $1.2-billion deal
June-26-09: Streetcar tab soars as Miller’s gamble fails Toronto will have to pay $417 million more for new streetcars after the federal government refused to buckle under
June-26-09: Breda to buy steel factory for LRV work‏ The San Francisco-based AnsaldoBreda Inc., a unit of AnsaldoBreda S.p.A. of Italy, tendered an offer the week of June 6
June-26-09: LACMTA postpones Breda decision again‏ The argument against renewing the contract is because Breda is already late and delivering cars
June-26-09: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency "sale in, lease out" deals, also known as SILOs.
June-26-09: Council votes to double spending on new streetcars But councillors slam mayor for gambling on federal funding for new fleet
June-26-09: Toronto council votes to ante up for streetcars City council voted to put up $834-million – twice its original commitment
June-26-09: Council votes to double spending on new streetcars But councillors slam mayor for gambling on federal funding for new fleet
June-26-09: Toronto council votes to ante up for streetcars City council voted to put up $834-million – twice its original commitment
June-25-09: Waterloo Region approves rail plan‏ Waterloo Region last night approved a $790-million light rail transit plan
June-25-09: Nearly $50M for public transit in Utah TRAX car maintenance center
June-25-09: Regional Council Approves Buses For Cambridge, Light Rail Transit For KW
June-25-09: Toronto on hook for extra $400M in streetcar deal After the federal government denied funding that share.
June-23-09: NTSB investigators sift Metro wreckage‏ 9 dead in Washington DC crash
June-21-09: Streetcar cash: Try a new route Unfortunately, these projects are not eligible under this fund
June-20-09: 'No way' tram project will stay within £545m budget THE city's tram line will not be ready until May 2012
June-20-09: New operator needed to revive freight-train service A new operator is necessary to avoid derailment.
June-20-09: Toronto streetcar contract in jeopardy Deal will die in a week if federal government doesn't put up a third of the money
June-20-09: City, province push Ottawa for streetcar funds Deal will die in a week if federal government doesn't put up a third of the $1.2-billion
June-20-09: Thunder Bay pins hopes on streetcar deal But for Thunder Bay, the Bombardier streetcar contract is oxygen
June-20-09: Toronto's plea for streetcar funds rejected Ottawa is standing firm in its refusal to give Toronto $400-million
June-20-09: Full speed ahead with rapid transit The story of Waterloo Region is the story of people who dreamed big
June-20-09: New operator needed to revive freight-train service A new operator is necessary to avoid derailment.
June-20-09: Toronto streetcar contract in jeopardy Deal will die in a week if federal government doesn't put up a third of the money
June-20-09: City, province push Ottawa for streetcar funds Deal will die in a week if federal government doesn't put up a third of the $1.2-billion
June-20-09: Thunder Bay pins hopes on streetcar deal But for Thunder Bay, the Bombardier streetcar contract is oxygen
June-20-09: Toronto's plea for streetcar funds rejected Ottawa is standing firm in its refusal to give Toronto $400-million
June-20-09: Full speed ahead with rapid transit The story of Waterloo Region is the story of people who dreamed big
June-20-09: Toronto's plea for streetcar funds rejected Baird says light-rail contract isn't eligible for stimulus,
June-20-09: Mayor Miller goes north in pitch for streetcar Urges Ottawa to pony up on jobs-rich trolley plan
June-19-09: Govt approval for rapid rail in early 2010 Assures no legal troubles "like airport project"
June-19-09: Funding battle with Ottawa could sidetrack Toronto streetcar project On Friday, the agreement to buy a fleet of 204 low-floor streetcars was announced by Miller and McGuinty, with Ontario promising $416 million
June-19-09: Ontario chips in a third of streetcar costs The Ontario government will chip in one-third of the cost for a $1.2-billion streetcar project
June-19-09: Streetcar funding falls short Ontario and Toronto have announced $771 million in funding to buy new streetcars
June-19-09: Ontario, T.O. announce streetcar deal without feds But one key party was missing -- along with its one-third share of the funding.
June-19-09: Ann Arbor-Detroit commuter rail line near deal They’re near an agreement with the rail freight companies
June-19-09: FasTracks lightrail project from Denver to Golden shifts into high gear RTD has been given the greenlight to move into full contruction
June-18-09: Portland OKs $30 million for Milwaukie MAX line The first Willamette River bridge in downtown Portland in more than 30 years.
June-18-09: Transit neglect spans 20 years: conference The regional transit authority's plan, a 25-year, $50-billion vision
June-18-09: Leslieville residents beat big box store, now face battle with TTC The site could become the storage and maintenance facility for the Toronto Transit Commission's new fleet of light rail vehicles.
June-18-09: Delays ahead Ambitious plans for American transport run into reality
June-18-09: Electrification Suddenly in Vogue Again‏ Canadian, British, American railroad officials fighting to replace diesel locomotives.
June-17-09: Green light for new streetcars $1.2 billion overhaul of aging TTC fleet expected to generate thousands of jobs
June-17-09: Bus Rapid Transit.‏ Can It Make It in NYC?
June-17-09: GO Transit Service Changes Begin Late This Month‏ GO Adding more service
June-17-09: Winston-Salem Proposes Modern Streetcar Line North Carolina city would rely on stimulus money to complete state’s first trolley line.
June-17-09: BART Airport Connector gets $70 Million from Port of Oakland Coliseum BART station to Oakland International Airport moved a step closer
June-17-09: Streetcar deal cash cow for province: Nearly 4,500 jobs and about $230 million in wages would be created
June-17-09: Canadian Transit Ridership Breaks Record Again in 2008 An increase of 3.5% nationally for another all-time record year with 1.82-billion trips
June-16-09: Beacon Hill's light-rail station filled with colorful art‏ Artwork by Seattle's Dan Corson is suspended above the passenger boarding platform
June-16-09: Train plans zapped Pearson airport link must be electric, Toronto health board tells province
June-15-09: TTC has lost its way on misleading signs Missing and misleading signs in the TTC
June-15-09: Hearings Today on Hydrogen-Solar-Maglev Supertrain for Michigan State’s legislature, foolish as ever, contends that the plan is worth consideration
June-14-09: State of the Union It's intended to be a new gateway to the City of Toronto
June-13-09: Use electric for expanded rail services: health officials Diesel fumes called ‘particularly harmful'
June-12-09: RoboTrains gain steam, more time on rails NYC Transit spent more than $340 million on the system.
June-12-09: Baird can apologize by funding transit Baird quickly expressed his regrets to Mayor David Miller
June-12-09: Bombardier touts Flexity 2 LRV‏ The FLEXITY 2 tram is equipped with the FLEXX Urban 3000 bogie
June-12-09: TTC map must look at big picture Where will it stop?
June-12-09: St. Clair lawsuit not the way to go Caused by construction of the streetcar right-of-way:
June-12-09: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive"
June-11-09: Baird bungle bodes well for Miller Toronto Mayor David Miller knew the answer would be "No."
June-11-09: Muni floats plan to pull hundreds of S.F. stops To speed up service
June-11-09: New buses soon pulling up to curbs across the province Hundreds of old and polluting public transit buses will soon be kicked to the curb
June-11-09: Can the TTC Announce Delays More Effectively? Can you hear the PA annoucement?
June-10-09: Brussels Trams to Hit the High Seas for Unique Rail Project During Vancouver 2010 Olympic STIB and Bombardier are collaborating with Vancouver to ship two of STIB's 100% low-floor FLEXITY trams
June-10-09: Washington Considers Covering Transit Operating Costs Below the surface, it’s a less promising idea than it may seem
June-09-09: John Baird drops the F-bomb on TTC streetcar request
June-09-09: MBTA Driver Suspended For Violating Cell Phone Ban Riders showed little sympathy for the suspended driver.
June-09-09: GO Trains set to roll into Niagara Falls this summer New service starts June 27‏
June-09-09: $65m PATH expansion feeds Lakeshore-to-Bloor tunnel dream 27-kilometre maze of tunnels known as the PATH.
June-09-09: On Sheppard Avenue East, pink hieroglyphics reveal the future Toronto Transit Commission plans this year to begin tearing up Sheppard to put in two lanes of light rail
June-09-09: Mississauga gets off the bus Transit ridership is down 6 per cent in 2009
June-09-09: Top Tory curses Toronto Transport Minister John Baird meets city's application for streetcar cash with a blunt, and profane, dismissal
June-09-09: First Northstar Commuter Rail Coaches Arrive “After a dozen years of anticipation, it is exciting to see the first passenger car arrive,”
June-09-09: Region can’t afford inaction on transit Detroit will be in no position to take advantage of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid
June-09-09: Norfolk Southern, BNSF Considering Electrification‏ looking actively at possible electrification of some of their mainline freight routes
June-08-09: $200 million: cost of three new streetcar lines‏ Construct three new streetcar lines
June-08-09: Bottlenecks on Union Station platforms New platforms at Union Stations
June-08-09: If you revamp it, they will come Get people home. Transit has to be available 24/7
June-07-09: Region has a transit plan, now what about money? Tolls and private sector could help make up Metrolinx's whopping $36 billion shortfall
June-05-09: City picks Oregon firm for streetcars Tucson could see its first streetcar rolling through downtown as soon as 2011
June-04-09: Groups file complaint saying Central Corridor would violate civil rights Coalition of neighborhood and minority-rights groups filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Met Council
June-04-09: DDOT unveils more informative bus signs Bus signs that contain route information
June-04-09: TTC steps up pass security Frauds reached $2M last year
June-04-09: Electric bus on trial in California‏ Ultra-quiet prototype 67-passenger (of which 37 can be seated)
June-04-09: Parking to be removed to speed streetcar‏ The Toronto Transit Commission [TTC] Dundas streetcar line is slowed
June-04-09: Fraud Prompts TTC to Redesign Metropass To include a hologram and a removable sticker
June-04-09: LRT routes to be given colors Riders weigh in on bus changes
June-04-09: Deep LRT tunnel won't hurt business‏ Ottawa Downtown tunnel will have to go deep — around 10-storeys deep
June-04-09: Design students propose LRT‏ Coachella Valley from Mecca to Palm Springs
June-04-09: Public input on proposed line Hamilton LRT King-Main Line
June-03-09: Union Station revamp moved up City Hall is moving up Union Station's revitalization by three years to 2015
June-03-09: $640M Union Station reno moving along A long-awaited renovation is starting to come together
June-03-09: On the wrong track, but still time to change trains Rail infrastructure on the GO Georgetown line,
June-03-09: CP24 and GO Transit Announce Exclusive Partnership Provide CP24 viewers and CP24 1050 listeners with live GO Transit updates
June-03-09: Council keeps streetcar funds in budget Charlotte City Council decided Wednesday to keep $8 million in funding
June-03-09: West Island teens need better access to transit: board Lack of transportation biggest obstacle to coping with isolation of 'burbs
June-02-09: Arlington T station reopens with disabled access Project spurred by lawsuit
June-02-09: City unhappy about LRT exclusion‏ Transit plans 'dismissive' of Cambridge, mayor says
June-02-09: City unveils $84 million transit campus The 56,000-sq.-ft. Mississauga Transit facility, funded mostly by federal and provincial gas tax money, was officially unveiled today
June-01-09: Sydney rail gets more carriages Operated at 125 per cent of capacity during the afternoon peak
June-01-09: Metropass is now an even better deal Metropass could get you a sizable discount at major local attractions

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