Tokyo has shown that mass-transit systems need not be a poor or dirty option.
Legislators like Christine Loh say there is a far better transport solution: mass-transit rail.
The report faulted the teams for not fully considering road-widening projects and mass-transit access, among other issues.
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It keeps transit funding roughly at its current level, which mass-transit advocates say is far too low.
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The app uses Google Transit to find alternative mass-transit options for your trips, and it gives you the option to instantly purchase offsets from your phone.
They are up against the lethal road chaos of a city of 8m people that lacks a mass-transit system and where government has little control over public transport.
Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.
New Jersey has closed its public mass-transit system indefinitely.
Meanwhile, in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned that the mass-transit system would likely be shut down for most of the weekend if Hurricane Irene continues along its projected course.
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Founded in 1942 as a manufacturer of snow-going equipment, it grew rapidly in the last quarter of the 20th century to become a diversified manufacturer of products ranging from mass-transit systems to personal watercraft.
It would add the final link in a corridor of mass-transit lanes that will ultimately stretch across Staten Island and north to the mouth of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel a project on which the state Department of Transportation has been at work for more than a decade.
By the same token, the yearning for government spending on "infrastructure" to stimulate economic activity creates an opening for the new president to push the kind of green projects that fit his call for a transition to alternative energy sources, including new kinds of mass-transit systems.
If China eventually uses as much oil on a per capita basis as crowded, good-mass transit-having, high gasoline tax Western Europe, it will come to between 26 million bpd and 30 million bpd, an increase of between 18 million bpd and 22 million bpd.
Construction of a mass rapid-transit railway is due to start in 2011, but with the number of passengers expected to reach just 400, 000 a day by 2020 it will hardly ease the congestion.
Hong Kong's government-owned Mass Transit Railway Corp. carries 2.28 million passengers a day through its 74-km network an indispensable system that keeps the territory bustling.
Surprising many ( govtrack.us gave it a 1% chance of passing as a separate bill), the parity between the exclusion from income for employer-provided mass transit and parking benefits was extended.
While solar energy isn't viable in rainy Seattle, Microsoft employees also enjoy free access to mass transit and company-subsidized hybrid cars.
The revenue generated by the auctions would be used for everything from training to green collar jobs to mass transit and low-income tax relief.
As well as promoting a more efficient industry, that will mean weaning Koreans off their gas-guzzlers and improving mass transit.
Because of this investment, nearly 400, 000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit and building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout the nation.
Instead, they are looking for what Leinberger calls "walkable urbanism" -- both small communities and big cities characterized by efficient mass transit systems and high density developments enabling residents to walk virtually everywhere for everything -- from home to work to restaurants to movie theaters.
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Granted, it is reasonable enough that most urban transport systems are subsidised, with subsidies ranging from nothing on Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway to around two-fifths of revenues in Madrid.
Deputy Hales says privately owned buses careened thru Santiago's streets, belching black smoke and competing for passengers in what appeared to be more a high-speed chase than a mass transit system.
The confiscated windfall profits would fund tax credits for fuel-efficient cars and grants for mass transit.
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In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.
The mayor and airport officials also have been encouraging people to take mass transit, or take advantage of drop-off locations.
The break boosts the pre-tax dollars employees could spend on mass transit to keep it in line with parking benefits.
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Digital-only purists would still get something out of the deal, as the update could also bring person-to-person money transfers and support for mass transit cards.
Most football game days are on Sundays, when the roads that connect to the stadium are already crowded, said Janna Chernetz of Tri-State Transportation Campaign, which advocates for mass transit.
Another high-profile captive is an extra-generous tax subsidy for employees who commute by mass transit.
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