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International Transportation News
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With trains canceled across France on the seventh day of a nationwide strike, the SNCF national rail service has offered unions a deal to try to persuade train drivers to go back to work. The main Paris airport and most of the country's oil refineries were also hit by blockades or strikes Tuesday, part of an extensive protest movement against a labor bill abolishing some labor protections. The
government fears the protest movement will complicate the European Championship soccer tournament, a monthlong event in stadiums around France by targeting trains, airports and fuel supplies. It starts Friday.
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Ridership on public bus service in towns outside Worcester has increased to hundreds of riders or more a month on most routes since regional transit authorities launched new community shuttles over the past few years.
However, finding the right match between transit destinations and schedules, and getting the word out that the service exists, is still a work in progress.
Transportation planners have worked with area residents, local officials and consultants to find ways to get people to shopping, jobs, school and basic services such as medical care more easily. "There seems to be more of a need for transit coming from rural communities," said Worcester Regional Transit Authority Administrator Jonathan E. Church, speaking of the lack of transportation in many parts of the county. "In some cases, those services they need to get to are only accessible by automobile."
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Cleveland - With newcomers such as MOCA and the utterly transformed Uptown District, University Circle (UC) has exploded with new activity that has easily blended in amid funky Hessler Street, the towering puppets of Parade the Circle and the venerable cultural institutions lining Wade Oval. If you build it, they will come. So goes the saying and so it is for UC, a development that University Circle Inc. (UCI) and its partners have noted and then some.
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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If there's a local transportation project you'd like to see happen over the next few years, you have until June 27 to let the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission know. The public comment period is now open for DVRPC's 2017-2020 Transportation Improvement Program, which will set the region's project priories for the next several years. "We really want to hear what the public thinks. Are we doing a good job? What would they like to see happen?" said Rick Murphy, DVRPC Senior Capital Program Coordinator.
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Not everyone's in favor of adding tolls to all the East River crossings, but according to transit advocates, it could help make it much easier to get around the city. The MoveNY plan, created by leading transportation engineer "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz, is an overarching transportation plan that aims to create more than $1.3 billion per year to make transit improvements across New York City, which will have a major impact on Queens.
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