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This news feature provides bulletins of particularly significant developments in public transportation and rail transit.


5 May 2013
Light Rail Now creates two new blogs

As an adjunct to the Lightrailnow.org website, the LRN Project team has created two blogs to provide more timely updates on important developments to readers: .

  • The Light Rail Now blog features international news, information, analysis, and other material...
  • The Austin Rail Now blog represents the views of Austin-area public transportation advocates and professionals who envision better mobility choices for urban rail and rail passenger service in Central Texas.



10 February 2012
U.S. Republican-controlled House Bill HR 7 zaps mass transit share of motor fuel tax

The transportation bill proposed in the U.S. House, HR 7, would destroy three decades of progress, returning to the highway-focused era where all federal motor vehicle fuel tax revenue (and other related tax income) would be once again totally dedicated to funding highway and road facilities, leaving mass transit on its own to scrounge for funding. Rail transit programs would be big losers, since the New Starts program and other crucial funding programs would be starved of revenue.
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