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	MBTA.com > Official Website for Greater Boston's Public Transportation System
		Bus 1 - Harvard/Holyoke Gate Dudley Staton via Mass.
		Bus 500 - EXPRESS BUS Riverside Downtown via Mass.
		Enter a location to locate MBTA transit services nearby.
	www.mbta.com (1371 words)

	mass transit. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a nonreserved basis.
		Mass transit can be divided into fixed route systems (often involving rails), such as streetcars and subway trains, and nonfixed route transit (along surface streets or water), such as buses and ferries, but does not usually include airplanes, taxis, or long-distance rail with more formal ticketing procedures.
		Currently buses account for 60% of mass transit rides in the United States; innovations such as articulated buses and reserved lanes on highways are balanced by the problems of noise, air pollution, and traffic.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/masstran.html (835 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Urban Mass Transit In The United States
		In the United States mass transit has, for the most part, meant some kind of local bus or rail service, and it is on these modes that this article focuses.
		The history of mass transit on land in the United States begins in the 1830s with the introduction of horse-drawn omnibuses and streetcars in Eastern cities.
		At one extreme are those who believe that mass transit as a thriving industry died of foul play, the victim of a criminal conspiracy of automobile, rubber, and oil producers who hoped to force Americans to depend on their cars.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/schrag.mass.transit.us (3264 words)

	Mass Transit Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mass Transit is dedicated to helping our clients achieve the maximum potential value of each consumer exposed to, acquired or retained through digital media.
		Mass Transit’s ability to adapt to the changing market climate, and compete with much larger agencies has earned them a reputation as a team comprised of some of the best minds in the business.
		As Mass Transit enters its 6th year in operation, the knowledge, experience and leadership of Jason Heller and Jason Burnham are evident through the accomplishments of this unique agency.
	www.mass-transit.com /2002a/aboutus.shtml (902 words)

	Why People Don't Use Mass Transit
		There are plenty of good reasons to encourage mass transit, but arguments about the hidden costs of the automobile fall on deaf ears because people, unconsciously or not, factor time and convenience into their decision making.
		Mass transit systems that fail to recognize that the unit of travel is the group, not the individual, are doing more to promote automobiles than Detroit ever could.
		Prognosis: we may see a marginal shift to mass transit among users for whom the negatives aren't too severe: they're close to transit at both ends of the trip and the time and out-of-pocket costs are not too dissimilar.
	www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/PSEUDOSC/MassTransit.HTM (5479 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "The U.S. Mass Transit Dilemma."
		Mass transit ridership declined from 23.5 billion passengers in 1945 to only seven billion in 1975, during which time the population of U.S. metropolitan areas doubled.
		The main reasons given for expanding rail service and mass transportation are to lessen automobile traffic congestion and air pollution, but careful analysis reveals that mass transit is not necessarily a cure for either.
		The problem with the entire mass transit versus private transit debate, says National Taxpayer Union (NTU) President James Davidson, is that both means of transport are so heavily subsidized that it's difficult to tell who would use what if they had to pay the full cost.
	www.fumento.com /masstransit.html (1828 words)

	Mass Transit \| Environmental Encyclopedia
		Mass transit is a public good that benefits all commuters, including those who use mass transit and those driving who enjoy less-congested roads and less-polluted communities.
		On the other hand, if a good mass transit system were in place, one could envision the development of business and residential hubs around the transit system which would eventually increase population density and ridership.
		Increasing mass transit use requires the development of attractive, competitive mass transit systems that are a convenient, safe, and comfortable option to automobile travel.
	www.bookrags.com /research/mass-transit-enve-01 (1302 words)

	Accessible Mass Transit - American Foundation for the Blind
		Mass transit services such as buses, trains, or special paratransit vans are frequently the only options blind or visually impaired people have for traveling independently to school, work, health care facilities, shopping centers, and a host of other places in the community.
		Because of the visual nature of most transit information, people who are blind, severely visually impaired, or who have poor sight cannot use readily the wealth of information provided in mass transit environments for general information, wayfinding, and safety.
		The ADA transit regulations are complex, addressing a wide range of areas including the design of transportation vehicles and facilities, paratransit services, training of transit staff, compliance requirements and timeframes, and a host of broad reaching issues.
	www.afb.org /info_document_view.asp?documentid=907 (945 words)

	Sierra Club Wrong on Mass Transit in Utah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An Odyssey in the Land of TOD (6/8) Transit Oriented Development is a worrisome concept that planners are attempting to foist on us in Honolulu and across the nation.
		Transit Alternatives Abound (1/8) Transit 'solutions' like heavy rail and light rail transit are so costly that, if implemented, they would prevent us from taking the many relatively inexpensive actions that could be effective in reducing both traffic congestion and public transportation subsidies.
		Transit Strike Brings Visions and Revelations (12/8) Cliff Slater writes that the recent transit strike in Honolulu presented a golden opportunity to examine the congestion caused by bus transit and to reevaluate alternative ideas that could improve traffic conditions for commuters.
	www.rppi.org /utahtransit.shtml (3533 words)

	Mass Transit Mess (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All of this decline in public transit has been accomplished in the face of enormous economic growth in other sectors of the economy, a great increase in travel in general, and in spite of massive doses of government financial aid.
		Whereas rail transit must rely upon a highly specialized roadbed, which can be amortized only by a limited number of users, motor vehicle transit is entirely liberated from the fixed cost of roadways.
		The widespread "liberation" of transit networks from the milieu of "greed," which has been held as a cause of the downfall of many private transit firms, has not led to improved operating results.
	www.libertyhaven.com /politicsandcurrentevents/taxesandtaxation/masstransit.html (2812 words)

	City's $75M mass transit question \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		That's the amount the Federal Transit Administration is offering to qualifying cities that can demonstrate a high level of resident interest in mass transit.
		Mass transit is especially needed around the UA, said David Duffy, director of campus and facilities planning.
		Mass transit is one solution to UA-area traffic congestion, according to a campus development plan approved last year by the Arizona Board of Regents.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/rionuevo/55042 (754 words)

	EVWORLD NEWSWIRE: Mass Transit Hysteria
		The Heritage Foundation says, "There isn't a single light rail transit system in America in which fares paid by the passengers cover the cost of their own rides." Heritage cites the Minneapolis "Hiawatha" light rail line, soon to be completed with $107 million from the transportation bill.
		The $52 billion isn't a gift to people who use the mass transit (or even to the contractors building the rail lines), it is a gift to people who drive.
		In engineering terms the cost of a mass transit system, both initial and operating, is inversely proposal to the population density.
	www.evworld.com /view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=7957 (1540 words)

	Mass Transit Is Not All Transportation Report Claims \| Daily Policy Digest \| NCPA
		The report suggests that mass transit reduces congestion by giving people an alternative to driving; however, 70 percent of drivers already using mass transit do not have cars or driver's licenses.
		Public transit productivity fell 30 percent over the past decade -- considering the annual cost of public transit by all governments -- which increased by 28.8 percent over 10 years -- and the decline in the proportion of ridership -- with public transit's share declining 10 percent.
		One of the problems with the report, notes O'Toole and Cox, is that the "positive" results of mass transit reported by TTI are skewed to a few major urbanized areas.
	www.ncpa.org /sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=3576 (362 words)

	Midweek Perspectives: All aboard mass transit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But one transit truth is often forgotten: The vast majority of customers who use public transportation do so either to make money (at work) or spend money (by shopping).
		Residents in these and other cities benefit every day from efficient transit systems that bring them to jobs and significantly reduce the draining effects of high gas prices on their household budgets.
		In 2004, the North Shore Connector was one of only five transit projects nationwide to be recommended by the federal government for "New Starts" funding.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06193/705094-109.stm (723 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Mass transit helps preserve nature in places like Yellowstone Park, the Everglades and the Arctic wilderness, because mass transit doesn't go there.
		The Heritage Foundation says, "There isn't a single light rail transit system in America in which fares paid by the passengers cover the cost of their own rides." Heritage cites the Minneapolis "Hiawatha" light rail line, soon to be completed with $107 million from the transportation bill.
		Not all of the new mass transit has to be frenetic.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110006428 (886 words)

	Mass transit safety - Jane's Civil Aerospace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mass transit systems the world over have become essential economic subsystems in their own right.
		By necessity, housing, shopping, recreation and cultural and employment centres are located along mass transit corridors, and modern urban infrastructure ties these facilities to other larger transit hubs, linking the local to the global arena.
		Mass transit systems combine large numbers of civilians, in a confined space, in awkward locations, often either elevated or underground.
	www.janes.com /aerospace/civil/news/jtsm/jtsm030213_1_n.shtml (669 words)

	On the subject of mass transit
		Cars-based transit is like packet-based networking; we know how superior that model is for internet traffic, and the benefits of that model are just as relevant for transit as for internet traffic.
		Mass transit is not acceptable because people have been duped into associating cars with "freedom".
		Well, mass transit is one of the largest corporations which need a lot of money to keep on going, and where they get all that money from, well our taxes obviously.
	blog.ianbicking.org /mass-transit.html (11633 words)

	Mass transit off track (Metro Times Detroit)
		In fact, some officials are actively discouraging talk of mass transit at a critical time in Detroit’s revival.
		Mass transit advocates say that, even if that projection is true, a single rail line isn’t enough to run an efficient rail service.
		Moreover, mass transit advocates say the concentration on road building disproportionately affects the one-third of Detroit residents who don’t own cars.
	www.metrotimes.com /20/12/Features/newMass.htm (1628 words)

	Public Transit
		The photo at left shows a "transit village" of homes and offices surrounding the BART train station in Pleasant Hill, California.
		Most of the time, though, public transit means traveling on land.
		The word ‘paratransit’ is used for shared ride taxis, jitneys, shuttle vans, van pools, and other transit in small vehicles.
	www.transitpeople.org /lesson/transit.htm (1295 words)

	Miami-Dade County - Transit
		On May 3, 2007, come out and cheer for Team Transit as members try to win for the 12th consecutive year in the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run in downtown Miami.
		The March 27, 2007 Master Developer Forum, attended by a cross-section of developers, local officials, and Transit staff, explored the master developer concept, aspects of the program, and ways to refine the planned process.
		Transit Mission: To meet the needs of the public for the highest quality transit service: safe, reliable, efficient, and courteous.
	www.co.miami-dade.fl.us /transit (639 words)

	NCR Transit Subsidy Home
		Effective with the April 2007 distribution, the Pentagon Mass Transit Quarterly distribution will be held in two new locations.
		Those with last names beginning in A-L are asked to pick up their benefits on the 4th floor and those with last names beginning in M-Z are asked to pick up their benefits on the 5th floor.
		Similarly, employees who receive transit passes may not be counted as part of a DoD carpool for purposes of qualifying for a parking pass.
	www.dtic.mil /ref/html/NCRTransitpass.html (333 words)

	Support Mass Transit - Sprawl - Sierra Club
		Public transit can serve as an environmentally-friendly alternative to sprawl-inducing highways, traffic jams, and air pollution, but too often our elected officials favor building more roads over supporting buses, subways, and light rail systems.
		Transit riders are one of the most obvious, under-organized bases to vote against highway-oriented sprawl and for the interests of transit-friendly cities and development.
		As stated in their literature, "Transit Vote is a non-partisan effort to mobilize transit riders around the country to participate in the political process.
	www.sierraclub.org /sprawl/transportation/masstransit.asp (254 words)

	Americans Don't Understand Mass Transit - Lieberman - IRED.Com
		This is so even in the case of mass transit that serves communities that are many miles from where your live.
		Mass transit should be no more self-sustaining than roads.
		When we subsidize mass transit, we are subsidizing a better environment.
	www.ired.com /news/lieberman/020707.htm (542 words)

	USATODAY.com - Drivers switch to public transit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Public transit systems across the USA are seeing an increase in ridership.
		But in some cases, cars are becoming so packed that the doors are dragging on the platforms at stops because of the increased weight, spokesman Justin Jones says.
		Tulsa Transit's March ridership was the highest since August 2003.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/energy/2006-04-23-lede-mass-transit-usat_x.htm (566 words)

	Harris Interactive \| Client Services \| Mass Transit & Light Rail Systems
		Whether your research is focused on understanding the structural barriers that prevent people from using mass transit or aimed at improving customer satisfaction of those who already ride, we have existing research designs to meet your needs.
		Here are two examples of mass transit research projects we have conducted.
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	www.harrisinteractive.com /services/masstransit.asp (438 words)

	Urban Resource Centre
		Recently, a seminar on rail based mass transit systems was arranged in Karachi by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Pakistan and the Mass Transit Cell of the Karachi City Government.
		Similarly, in Manila, transit ways were not built near the historic fort area and major changes were made to building an elevated light rail through the Macarty district to address environmental and heritage concerns of the citizens and urban planners.
		And finally, if we wish to solve our growing traffic problems, then the rail based mass transit system has to be a part of a larger city traffic and transport plan of which land-use planning and protection is the most important element.
	www.urckarachi.org /mass.htm (3430 words)

	www.elpasotexas.gov - Transit Agenda
		A meeting of the Mass Transit Department Board will be held on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.
		Requests must be made to the Mass Transit Department (533-1220) a minimum of 24 hours prior to the posted date and time of this meeting.
		Copies of this agenda will be provided in Braille, large print, or audiotape upon requests made a minimum of 48 hours prior to the date and time of the meeting.
	www.elpasotexas.gov /sunmetro/transit_agenda.asp (682 words)

	Mass Transit 1.5 BETA TEST (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Future versions of Mass Transit will be redesigned and written from scratch, but at this time you'll have to live with a little of my madness.
		Mass Transit will remain free, and most likely will be made fully open source by placing it under GPL or similar license.
		I hope to expand upon this by allowing you to tap a record in Mass Transit and have the Palm jump to that record in the appropriate application.
	www.splatbang.com /palm/mt-beta.html (1645 words)

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