It keeps transit funding roughly at its current level, which mass-transit advocates say is far too low.

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The below-street-level New York Transit Museum Store in downtown Brooklyn takes underground standards to a new level with antique subway token cufflinks, monogrammed mosaic tiles and subway map shower curtains.

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In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.

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As we've been reporting, in the wake of today's bombings in London, US officials have raised the terror alert level for mass transit systems.

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But in the spirit of commercialism there are now plans to build a subterranean shopping complex and a huge public transit terminal from 30ft below ground level.

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Roads and walkways on the same level as homes, with mass transit everywhere.

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