TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web
ON TN:
Drivers Who Crash Are Ticketed Less In Manhattan (link)
JFK, Newark Liberty Airports To Increase Ebola Screening (link)
NJ Transit Rail Commuters Face Challenges Above and Below Ground (link)
THURSDAY LINKS:
The boom in freight trains carrying oil is causing Amtrak delays — and is holding up the transport of vital consumer and industrial goods. (N.Y. Times)
L.A. will be testing new (and hopefully less confusing) parking signs. Meantime, the city is going after apps that let people buy and sell unused time on parking meters. (L.A. Times)
Check out the trains that will run on some London Underground lines in 2022. (Comment from a colleague: "don't you wish these were in the MTA capital plan? I do!") (CNET)
New Tube for London designed by PriestmanGoode. from Priestmangoode on Vimeo.
Some Belgian postal workers have added 'recovery of stolen bicycles' to their job descriptions. (RFID Journal)
Millennials aren't the only generation shifting away from driving — Gen Xers are deployng fare cards as well. (BostInno)
Troy's long-delayed transit center will open next week. (Detroit News)
Let's go inside the Paris Auto Show, where car designers have apparently thrown any qualms about fossil fuels out the window. (Marketplace)
Some coastal communities in the U.S. could see tidal flooding quadruple in the next three decades. (WNYC)
The Dutch foreign minister said that a victim of the MH17 air disaster was found wearing an oxygen mask, suggesting not everyone died instantly. (BBC)
A Citibike station, rendered in Lego: (h/t Alex Goldmark)
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