Get involved in improving transit and get course credit for it! Apply now for an internship with TRU! TRU Intern Positions – Winter/Spring 2011 Political Outreach Intern Ensure that public officials learn about the importance of public transit by developing an up-to-date listing of public officials, managing correspondence with them, and helping coordinate a transit […]
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From our friends at US PIRG: Highway advocates often claim that roads “pay for themselves,” with gasoline taxes and other charges to motorists covering – or nearly covering – the full cost of highway construction and maintenance. They are wrong. U.S. PIRG debunks these myths in a new report which shows that gas taxes cover
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A proposal to fund the construction of a light rail system in Kansas City was voted down last November. Frustrated that people did not really understand what light rail would do for the city, a local design agency created this video for Kansas City Public Television to try to make it very clear visually. This
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing brought up Woodward Light Rail in several recent interviews. MLive quoted an interview on WDET: Bing identified several developments he said point toward a brighter future, including the Woodward Avenue Light Rail Project. With funding in place and a federally-required environmental impact study underway, construction on the 9.3-mile light rail line
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A Detroit Free Press editorial explains it well: Gov.-elect Rick Snyder will find the road to a 21st Century transportation system bumpy — with plenty of detours and dead-ends. He made the trip a little smoother this week by retaining respected transportation professional Kirk Steudle as director of the Michigan Department of Transportation. A
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