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  • Speeding Up The Obama administration hopes to encourage states to invest in regional light-rail routes by granting funding to plans for expansions and upgrades.

    Florida Governor Cancels Rail Plan Josh Mitchell 2011

  • "Let us not forget, amid the clamor proclaiming Proposition 1 our" once-in-a-lifetime "chance to build light rail, that two years ago we had a much better light-rail proposal — one that did not commit sales tax to polluting highway lanes and that would have helped solve the global-warming problem ..."

    Technology We Aren’t Aware of Yet « PubliCola 2010

  • Here in the Silicon Valley, it took longer than that to approve and construct a ten-mile, light-rail read "trolley" line to San Jose.

    Seth Shostak: America's "Can't Do" Attitude Seth Shostak 2011

  • That's because Maryland has no money for the foreseeable future for further, critical transportation improvements - neither for roads nor transit projects like the light-rail Purple Line.

    Maryland's transportation crisis is arguably worse than Virginia's 2011

  • Here in the Silicon Valley, it took longer than that to approve and construct a ten-mile, light-rail read "trolley" line to San Jose.

    Seth Shostak: America's "Can't Do" Attitude Seth Shostak 2011

  • Here in the Silicon Valley, it took longer than that to approve and construct a ten-mile, light-rail read "trolley" line to San Jose.

    Seth Shostak: America's "Can't Do" Attitude Seth Shostak 2011

  • The locals on the light-rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina, seemed amused by the horde of transportation tourists that crowded onto their cars one afternoon in early November.

    Road Worriers 2009

  • The site also lies along the route of a new light-rail line that would connect downtown Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul.

    Fans Fear Vikings Will Succumb to Wanderlust Joe Barrett 2012

  • In 1998, the fed-up citizens of Mecklenburg County voted to increase their local sales tax by half a percent to pay for new transit, and today the city has a thriving bus system and the year-old Lynx light-rail line, which has already sparked more than $1 billion in planned neighborhood development near its stations.

    Road Worriers 2009

  • That's because Maryland has no money for the foreseeable future for further, critical transportation improvements - neither for roads nor transit projects like the light-rail Purple Line.

    Maryland's transportation crisis is arguably worse than Virginia's 2011

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