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Here is a bunch of articles from the last week.

Salt Lake City plans for bicycle transit station

Bikestation to assist Davis commuters

Plan for reversible lanes getting mixed reviews

Public comment sought on routes

Bountiful seeks ‘streetcar named desire’

Bills address roads, rails, ruins

Streetcar plan gets reviewed

Proposal Still Needs Final Approval

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Image via WikipediaSunTran picks up steam in 2008

Utah wants a bite of stimulus cash

FrontRunner gets more riders when it snows

Utah is ready with a list of needs stimulus money could meet

States, cities seek stimulus funds

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Image via WikipediaUTA gets rainy-day fund for lean times

UTA needs to have reserves set aside for the bad times. There is going to be times when tax revenues fall and there is a need for the money.

Project to widen 114th South is set to begin next month

Bicycle transit center for commuters in works

Report on America's Crumbling Infrastructure...

Article on the situation with America's Infrastructure. Notice also that the pro-highway, anti-transit faction was able to remove Paul Weyrich's "The Case for Public Transportation" out of the report.

America's crumbling transportation system: Back channel political gamesmanship and the national security implications

The Future of Highways Circa 1958

It seems that this video has been popping up everywhere lately so I figured I would show you. This is a video showing what Walt Disney that the highways of the future would be like in 1958. You look at this video and you realize how far we have not come over the years. Basically automobiles and automobile travel has not changed in 50 years.

One of the favorite arguments of the anti-transit types is that rail is outdated. Of course this in itself is 1950's thinking. The truth is we have seen little changes in automobiles in the last 100 years. They have gotten bigger motors, more safety features but are essentially the same was when Henry Ford started rolling the Model T off the assembly line.