More than $31 million has been designated for area transportation projects in the latest state budget, signed by Gov.

It appears as though the TTC transit strike has been averted, although the union members still have to ratify the deal which apparently resulted in them getting nearly everything they asked for, which is awesome.  Well, it’s awesome if you’re a TTC union member.  If you’re not, you can look forward to more of what TTC union president Bob Kinnear called overpriced fares and poor customer service.  How he could say that while calling this end to the hostage negotiations...

"I serve the entire population of Washington County and my district, not just individuals" John McPherson's position on a quarter-cent sales tax in Washington County was typical of many residents who spoke against it at a county board hearing recently. via Star Tribune

"It was the cost of transportation. Gas has been too expensive for the last five years" The number of islanders hopping aboard buses has climbed to the highest level since Island Transit was founded 20 years ago as soaring gasoline costs push more commuters to use public transportation. via Tacoma Daily Index

Run buses at night and fill them with drunk drivers. Issue date: 4/8/08 Section: Opinion Lafayette County 's recent vote to withdraw support for the Lafayette Oxford University Transit System highlights the ... via The Daily Mississippian

Bus route extended to housing complex Harford Transit has announced that bus service is being extended to serve the Abingdon Catholic Charities Housing Complex on St. via BaltimoreSun.com

Haaretz reports that the US Administration is checking the possibility of pumping oil from the Iraq's Kirkurk area to Mosul and then to a Haifa oil terminal, via Jordan. The Americans requested a cost estimate of repairing the old Mosul-Haifa pipeline , inactive since the end of the British mandate in Palestine in 1948. I presume this idea wanted to avoid the old Syrian track on the Golan via a bypass through Jordan... Of course, if you consider the US government's growing anti-Syrian stance, o...