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Video of the Day: The Restored Masstransiscope (Gothamist)
The mta may soon be addingdigital advertising to the subwaysthat will be very similar to Bill Brand’s Masstransiscope. What's that, you say? The Creative Time-supported project "was installed in the abandoned Myrtle Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York in September 1980. It has been seen by millions of commuters for over twenty-five years. The 228 hand-painted panels are viewed ...

Hop on and Off, Just the Way the Natives Do (New York Times)
A New York City bus cruises past the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue. A tour of Manhattan on public buses takes about three and a half hours.

Holiday tradition keeps rolling down the track (The Record)
These days, if you ask children what Christmas is to them, you would hear phrases like "Santa Claus," "presents" and "trees." Ask a child growing up in the first half of the 20th century, and you would have heard "trains" — meaning the miniature kind chugging around the tree on Christmas morning.

Mat-Su community datebook (11/19/08) (Anchorage Daily News)
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***Greenwich Post's transportation columnist Jim Cameron on the road (and rail) to economic recovery*** (Greenwich Post)
Metro-North will be operating on a special schedule along the New Haven Line around the Thanksgiving holiday next week. And the railroad is offering more seats on weekend trains through the holidays.

MEASURE R : mta sales tax increase wins narrowly (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
A half-cent sales tax to fund public transportation projects across Los Angeles County was narrowly approved by voters, according to unofficial election results released Wednesday.PRESS-TELEGRAM EDITORIALS:» Outcomes close to home» How we voteELECTION 2008 » Tuesday's historic vote may be over, but the results are still making news. Keep up with the latest info on local races ...

Clock May Be Running Out on Real Time Bus info (Gothamist)
The mta has been trying to bring "real time arrival information" to bus stops--to let riders know when buses are headed to their stops--since 2005 , but, now, it looks like the project's time may have past. TheDaily News reportsthat officials "halted some work 'pending a decision on the future of the project.'" The project is two years behind schedule, apparently been bedeviled by ...

Weekend changes to LIRR branch (WABC-TV New York)
Construction will effect service on the Port Washington branch this weekend.

The changes affect: (Ridgefield Press)
Bus service will replace the some trains on the Danbury Branch in both directions between Danbury, Bethel, Redding and Branchville stations weekdays only from Nov. 13 to Dec. 5.

Weekend service changes on LIRR Oyster Bay branch (Newsday)
Long Island Rail Road service on the Oyster Bay branch will be replaced by bus service for all of Saturday and part of Sunday morning as LIRR workers perform maintenance.