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Newsby StaffOctober 18, 2012

Report: Transportation, housing costs outpacing incomes

Findings from the study by the Center for Housing Policy and the Center for Neighborhood Technology show that the combined costs of housing and transportation in the nation’s largest 25 metro areas have swelled by 44% since 2000 while incomes have failed to keep pace.

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Newsby StaffOctober 18, 2012

TTC sets 12-month ridership record

From Oct. 3, 2011 to Oct. 2, 2012, the TTC carried just over 510 million riders. By the end of this year, the agency expects to have carried 514 million riders, with a projected ridership of 528 million in 2013.

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Newsby StaffOctober 18, 2012

Report: Chicago transit over-reported bus mileage

Cause of Action, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, claims the Chicago Transit Authority may have inflated by up to $150 million the federal funding it received since 1982 by "fraudulently over-reporting" the number of miles buses travel while in service.

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Newsby StaffOctober 18, 2012

Calif.’s SamTrans falls behind on real-time info

Unlike many other San Francisco Bay Area transit agencies, the agency hasn't made the information available on 511, the regional transit information service. Software issues have delayed a real-time bus information system for years.

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Newsby StaffOctober 18, 2012

L.A. Metro sets September ridership record

Officials point to the roiling fluctuations of gas prices as a major influence on public transportation ridership.

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Newsby StaffOctober 18, 2012

Ann Arbor FY2012 ridership soars

Providing more than 6.3 million rides and generated the highest annual ridership total since the transportation agency introduced local fixed-route service in 1979.

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Newsby StaffOctober 16, 2012

Fla.'s HART seeks public input on rapid transit project

Transit officials are seeking opinions on the MetroRapid East-West project while they pursue funding for the final design and construction phases. The system will be the first rapid transit system in the Hillsborough County area.

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Newsby StaffOctober 16, 2012

Mich. lawmakers’ approval needed to advance public transit

Mayor Dave Bing, Gov. Rick Snyder and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that a regional transit authority is needed in Detroit to finalize $25 million in federal funding for a series of rapid buses and another $25 million for a light rail streetcar project.

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Newsby StaffOctober 15, 2012

Miss. transit sets one-month ridership record

Of the 81,000-plus boardings on Oxford-University Transit, 78,805 of the riders represented Ole Miss staff, faculty and students.

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Newsby StaffOctober 15, 2012

Transit set to add trips to U. of Washington

The trips come after Community Transit drastically cut service over the past two years in response to declining sales-tax revenue. Much of that service was on local routes.

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