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- Alon Levy with an excellent primer on Positive Train Control (as it is known in the US).
- Joseph Rose reminisces about a bus mounted on a ski lift.
- Bike Portland reports that the State of Oregon denies unemployment compensation to a man whose job relocates to a place only reachable by driving, and who is subsequently fired after refusing to buy one.
- Also from Bike Portland, longtime activist (and PT regular) Lenny Anderson gets some well-deserved love.
- From the Columbian, the city of Vancouver discovers that extensive annexation has a cost: a much larger street maintenance bill.
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The Overhead Wire looks at the question of cities trying to do local transit expansions in areas with regional (and often, suburban-dominated) transit agencies.
(They list the Portland Streetcar as an example–although I don’t consider it a good one, as TriMet is hardly “suburban-dominated”).
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