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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Amalgamated Transit Union Local 382 (I Support the Union)

  • ATU Local 382

Utah Transit Authority does not Strengthens or Connect Communites

  • Digest of Performance Audit of Utah Transit Authority

This what help Destruction of the Bus System!

  • Final Evaluation Plan: Utah Transit Authority Connection Protection System
  • Proceedings Richard Hodges

Taxpayers need to Start asking how much does it Costs to Subsidize Trax

  • Commuters give UTA changes mixed reviews

FrontRunner is a Total Waste

  • Critics say FrontRunner cost outweighs benefit
  • Fewer riders on FrontRunner than expected
  • FrontRunner ridership off 31 Percent from Expectations
  • FrontRunner run lower number of passenger falls with gas prices
  • KRM Commuter Rail Plan's Supposed Economic Benefits Aren't Credible; System Would Require Massive Subsidies
  • Transit Subsidies
  • Transit subsidies not cost-effective

UTA Articles & Public Transit Web Sities

  • Measure aims to protect owners of condemned property
  • New Year: Streetcar Pork
  • Report Card for America's Infracture
  • Santaquin cuts staff wages but not consultant
  • Smart Growth (Utah)
  • Southwest Hang In (UTA Financial Planning)
  • Stimulus Watch ( How are Taxpayers going to Pay for this)
  • The Truth Comes Out
  • The White House Blog (Public Transit)
  • UTA, UDOT board requirement could change
  • Utah Senate Democrats: What we learned
  • Utah Waste Buster (Transportation)
  • When Public Transit Ceases to be Public
  • Who Is Our Government For?

Articles About UTA

  • Advocate: New Transportation Plan for Disabled, Seniors will be Challenging to Implement
  • Agencies Seek Improved Transit for Disabled Riders
  • Commuters want better bus service
  • Critical freeways needs are being ignored UTA takes funds
  • Measure aims to protect owners of condemned property
  • UTA Looks to Change Davis Bus Routes
  • UTA Set to Unveil Speedy Max Bus Route
  • Utah Transit Authority Showcases Open Payment System

Transit Subsidies Worth the Cost

  • Critical freeway needs are being ignored as UTA takes funds
  • Great Rail Disasters
  • Hatch, Bennett, and Earmarks
  • Light Rail: Boonor or Boondoggie
  • Measure Q: The Wrong Train
  • New Year: Streetcar Pork
  • OUR VIEW: Streetcars desirable for Ogden
  • Transit Subsidies Not Cost - Effective
  • West Valley condemns land for Light-Rail access

We Are Destroying Our Environment

  • A Smart Way To Buy Gasoline

Stimulus is not going to Help

  • Congressman Moran's News Commentary
  • Post Authority get Zero in New Round of Stimulus Funding
  • Progressive Railroading: USDOT Award $742.5 Million in Stimulus
  • recovery.org Tracks the Stimulus Faster than the Guys Spending it
  • Stimulus Watch (How are TAXPAYERS going to PAY for THIS)
  • The Slumming of Suburbia
  • The Transportation Stimulus Has Not Created Jobs-But Was It a Bust
  • Transit as the Anti -Stimulus
  • Transit Funding Is Broken

One of Problems with the Unemployment is the Canceling of the Bus Routes

  • Budget ax to fall on BC Transit ? Riders say it could cost them their jobs
  • unemployment and the transit imperative

Stop This Train

  • Are Trains Slower Now Than They Were in the 1920s?

Fun Transit Sites

  • Andy Singer
  • Hagley Library and Archives

Free Public Transit

  • Fare Free Michigan
  • Fare Free South
  • Fare-Free Chicago
  • Fare-Free DC
  • Fare-Free New England
  • Fare-Free New Jersey
  • Fare-Free Northwest
  • Fare-Free Ohio
  • Fare-Free Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Free Public Transit
  • Free Public Transit ( The Begining of the End of Auto Sprawl)
  • Free Public Transit - Wisconsin
  • Free Public Transit California
  • Jacksonville Transit
  • Public Transit Links
  • The Tyee A FEISTY ONE ONLINE
  • Why Is Fare - Free Transit The Exception Rather Then The Rule?

Catmeow Public Transit

UTA needs to start Charging for Parking at Park & Ride Lots

  • Elimination of Parking Requirements
  • Free Parking Isn't Free
  • Planetizen: Parking
  • Putting Parking Into Reverse
  • Shoup Shows Cities How to Just Say No to Parking

Taking Buses out of Neighborhoods Increases Poverty & Crime

  • Suburban Poverty and the Transit Connection
  • The Slumming of Suburbia
  • We don't Need Another War on Poverty

Utah Transit Authority Mismanagement

  • Audit of Salt Lake Transit

UTA is Good at Lying to the Taxpayers!

  • Audit: UTA ridership up 12.5 percent in 2008
  • UTA ridership up last year 12.5% last year

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