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