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 Over 20 metro areas across the United States are either developing new Light Rail Transit systems or are expanding existing systems. This list includes cities with subway and commuter rail systems, typically not defined as LRT. Nevertheless, the results are the same: transportation choice, economic development opportunities along rail corridors, less environmental impact, and incentives for less urban sprawl. The list also includes links to other Minnesota-related transportation sites.

Region System/Resource Name URL
Minnesota Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) http://www.dot.state.mn.us/
MnDOT Twin Cities Traffic Net http://www.traffic.connects.com/
Minnesota State House of Representatives Transportation & Transit Committee http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hinfo/
cchrs.htm
Minnesota State Senate Policy Division: Transportation Committee http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/
campage/97commem.htm#TRAN
Minnesota State Senate Budget Division: Transportation Budget Division http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/
campage/97commem.htm#TRANBD
Metropolitan Council (Twin Cities) http://www.metrocouncil.org
Transit for Livable Communities
United States
Atlanta, Georgia Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) http://www.itsmarta.com
Baltimore, Maryland Maryland Mass Transit Administration (MTA) http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/MD-DOT/mta/
Boston, Massachussetts Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) http://www.mbta.com/
Buffalo, New York
Chicago, Illinois Metra Commuter Rail System http://www.metrarail.com/
Cleveland, Ohio Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) http://little.nhlink.net/~rta/rtamain.htm
Dallas, Texas Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) http://www.dart.org
Denver, Colorado RTD MAC http://www.rtd-denver.com/
Missouri Missouri State DOT http://www.modot.state.mo.us/
Los Angeles, California Commuter Rail Transit http://www.westworld.com/~elson/larail/
Madison, Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin http://danenet.wicip.org/bcp/feasible.html
Miami, Florida
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
New Jersey New Jersey http://www.njtransit.state.nj.us/
New York, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/
Orlando, Florida
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) http://www.libertynet.org:80/~septa/
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Port Authority http://www.portauthority.org/home.html
Portland, Oregon Tri-Met http://www.tri-met.org/
Sacramento, California
St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis Regional Transit MetroLink http://www.bi-state.org
Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Transit Authority UTA http://www.utabus.com/menu.htm
San Diego, California MTDB http://www.sdcommute.com/sdmts/
San Francisco, California Bay Area Rapid Transit BART http://server.berkeley.edu/Transit/
San Jose, California Santa Clara Valley VTA http://www.vta.org/
Seattle, Washington Sound Move http://www.wsdot.wa.gov:80/CPSRTA/
Washington D.C. WMATA http://www.wmata.com
Canada et Mexico
Calgary, Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Montreal, Quebec
Ottowa, Ontario
Quebec City, Quebec
Toronto, Ontario
Vancouver, British Columbia
Mexico City D.F., Mexico
Europe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Athens, Greece http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/
waton/subway.html
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Brussels, Belgium
Budapest, Hungary http://www.ba.dlr.de/NE-WS/ws1/staff/
norbert_reulke/budapest.html
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dublin, Ireland http://www.luas.cie.ie/
Frankfurt, Germany
Grenoble, France
Helsinki, Finland
London, England
Munich, Germany
Madrid, Spain
Milano, Italy
Moscow, Russia
Oslo, Norway
Paris, France RATP
Metro
SNCF
http://www.ratp.fr/
http://www.pagefrance.com/
http://www.sncf.fr/
Prague, Czheck Republic
Stockholm, Sweden Storstockholms Lokaltrafik http://www.stoinfo.se/england/
facts&info/articles/transportation.html
Vienna, Austria
Warsaw, Poland
Zurich, Switzerland
Asia/Pacific
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Osaka, Japan
Shanghai, China http://www.sh.com/zone/lujiazui/ljz06/jichu5.htm
Singapore
Sydney, Australia
Tiawan
Tokyo, Japan
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Special thanks to Transit for Livable Communites, a non-partisan, grass-roots transportation advocacy group, whose objectives are to communicate critical transportation decision-making information to the Minnesota public.

For further information contact:

Minnesotans for Light Rail Transit
email: mnlrt@geocities.com

Transit for Livable Communities
email: thomwell@bitstream.net
P.O. Box 14221
St. Paul, MN 55114-1221

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