Our friends over at the American Dream Coalition have pulled together another series of links to transportation policy items in the news:
Personal Rapid Transit: Twenty-First Century Transport? – Rick Harrison, New Geography
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? – Executive Education, Harvard Business School
Southern states do a U-turn on toll roads – USA Today
Rising affluence sees Beijing cars pass 4 million mark – Google News
Driving mad! 4 million cars clog Beijing roads – Window of China
Should the Feds take over regulation of rail transit safety? – National Journal
Public Transit Ridership Declines – Green Inc., New York Times
Light rail or bus rapid transit: It's about costs – Industrial Laser Solutions
Norfolk light rail is over budget, behind schedule – WVEC.com, Virginia
New Jersey communities divided over $800 million light rail line – NewJersey.com
Job woes reduce transit ridership – USA Today
Two separate train crashes prove fatal in Palm Beach County – Palm Beach Post
Police identify man killed by TRAX in downtown Salt Lake City – Deseret News, Utah
Man on tracks killed by DART train – WFAA.com, Dallas
Copper heist makes for messy day on Sacramento light rail – Sacramento Bee
Light rail workers to be fired after teen deaths – New York Injury News
U.S. System for Tracking Traffic Flow Is Faulted – New York Times
Officials in jam can't see the traffic – Washington Examiner