An occasional update on items from the Transit City.
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AN APP FOR THAT: BUSTRIPPING
… a handful of Internet start-ups are trying to make searching for bus and train routes and fares as easy as searching for flight information. …
On Bustripping, another new intercity bus search engine, users can search for routes in 163 United States cities, four European cities and Vancouver, Canada. There is also an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The site currently turns up trips among 18 bus companies like Yo! Bus and Go Buses.
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MONTREAL — Over the next six years, Quebec will transfer almost $1 billion from road repairs to help transit authorities maintain their buses and subway cars.
Thanks to that shift, 27 per cent of transport-infrastructure funding will go to transit by 2020, up from today’s 21 per cent.
Quebec also announced it wants public-transit service increased by 30 per cent by 2020, though it can’t say how those improvements will be financed.
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WORLD’S MOST OBVIOUS BUS STOP
It’s in Baltimore:
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Madrid designers. More here in Slate.
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