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	<title>The Capricious Commuter &#187; Carpooling</title>
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	<description>Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road</description>
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		<title>Should employers have to offer help for workers&#8217; commute costs for transit, cycling, and carpools?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/07/21/should-employers-have-to-subsidize-their-workers-commutes-by-transit-bike-or-carpool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carpooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill sent to the governor aims to reduce greenhouse gases and auto congestion by giving regional governments the authority to require employers to offer subsidies to workers who commute by bus, rail, bicycle, carpool and other low-emission means. Bay Area public transit and regional governments backed the bill, but it was opposed by the California Chamber of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the toll on bridge drivers be too big a toll?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/14/will-the-toll-on-bridge-drivers-be-too-big-a-toll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who take car pools across seven Bay Area bridges may be in for an unpleasant change next year: the end of free rides for car pools during rush-hour periods. And on the Bay Bridge, regular drivers not in car pools also may in for a shock: higher tolls during peak commute periods than at other times. Proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toll shock: Will Bay Area bridge tolls go up?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/13/toll-shock-will-bay-area-bridge-tolls-go-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/13/toll-shock-will-bay-area-bridge-tolls-go-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caltrans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area bridge operators disclosed a year ago they were considering raising tolls on seven state-owned bridges by $1 &#8211; up to $5 per car. On Wednesday morning, a toll authority committee will get down to the details of when and how to do it. The Bay Area Toll Authority Overnight Committee meets at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the MetroCenter, 101 Eighth Street, Oakland to consider a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying to save time on toll lanes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/04/29/paying-to-save-time-on-toll-lanes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/04/29/paying-to-save-time-on-toll-lanes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freeways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transit vs. driving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Would you pay to save time driving the freeways? Would paying a toll to use an express lane seem less painful if you knew it was helping ease freeway traffic congestion for the masses?. Bay Area residents are getting closer to finding out. A plan to create an 800-mile network of express lanes open to carpools for free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should the free ride end for car pools on Bay Area bridges?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/17/should-the-free-ride-end-for-car-pools-on-bay-area-bridges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/17/should-the-free-ride-end-for-car-pools-on-bay-area-bridges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[casual carpools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Car pooling has worked so well on Bay Area bridges that bridge operators are considering ending the free rides for car pool users during weekday rush hours. I can hear the rumble of protest brewing among car pool users: &#8220;Hey government, we took car pools like you asked, so why penalize us by ending the free ride?&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that like water districts raising water rates in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>enjoy your free ride while it lasts</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/05/22/enjoy-your-free-ride-while-it-lasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/05/22/enjoy-your-free-ride-while-it-lasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 06:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carpooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[casual carpools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freeways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;ve spent much of this week on the blog bickering over high-speed rail funding, I&#8217;ve noticed a thread emerge that speaks to all forms of transportation, especially the ubiquitous solo vehicle commute. Time and time again, public transportation advocates, who are fighting for nickles and dimes in Sacramento in these days of $15 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>train in vain</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/04/15/train-in-vain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/04/15/train-in-vain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amtrak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitol Corridor (Amtrak)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connectivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  On my way home last night, I fancied that I was going to blog about the latest bit of transportation research to come out of the Cato Institute, an inside-the-Beltway limited-government think-tank. I was going to write about the study, Does Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Emissions?, as I quaffed a $4.50 micro-brew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>are we ready to stop driving? right now?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/11/12/are-we-ready-to-stop-driving-right-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/11/12/are-we-ready-to-stop-driving-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ferries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smart Lanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecommuting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched &#8220;The Amazing Mrs. Prichard,&#8221; a British television series about a grocery store manager who become prime minister of the UK  because of that longing many of us have for our leaders to use common-sense governance. As one might expect, much of the drama comes from home-grown logic colliding headlong with the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>so you wanna fight global warming, eh?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/10/26/so-you-wanna-fight-global-warming-eh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/10/26/so-you-wanna-fight-global-warming-eh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolls]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/10/26/so-you-wanna-fight-global-warming-eh/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You want to stop global warming? Hmm. Maybe. Sounds good. How? You can take BART to work. Not me. Don&#8217;t live near a BART station and the BART lots are always full when I drive to one. You can take the bus to BART. No. The bus stop is too far from my house. I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>cookin&#8217; up HOT lanes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/07/10/cookin-up-hot-lanes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/07/10/cookin-up-hot-lanes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carpooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freeways]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received a news release from Newark Democratic Sen. Alberto Torrico, announcing success for legislation to speed up construction of HOT lanes through the Sunol Grade along I-680. What are HOT lanes, you might ask? They&#8217;re basically carpool lanes that allow carpools to drive free and toll-payers to drive solo. The idea is to make full [...]]]></description>
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