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Charging ahead
Fairport’s municipal electric company got its first electric vehicle about a decade ago: a Ford pickup truck with a bed full of lead-acid batteries. The village and the utility it operates have a longstanding policy of embracing electrified vehicles, says village administrator Ken Moore, and Fairport has several hybrid vehicles — thankfully, much more advanced […]
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What about the bikes?
A group of bicycling advocates wants to know why a State Department of Transportation planning document does not include investment in cycling and pedestrian projects. The document emphasizes several other transportation modes, says Brian Kehoe, executive director of the New York Bicycling Coalition, and he’d like to see sections devoted to bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure, […]
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Rochester train station closer to construction
Construction of a new Rochester train station will start sometime in 2013, says State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald. The project, which the state is managing, has received $26.5 million in funding commitments from the federal, state, and city governments. And during a press conference this morning, an Amtrak official announced that the rail […]
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Fuel cell lab leaving
Hydrogen fuel cells have a long way to go before they’re ready for the market. Still, General Motors’ fuel cell research and development center in Honeoye Falls has served as a high-profile tech industry in the Rochester area. But last week, GM announced that it will shut down the lab and transfer the technical work […]
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Fairport meeting to focus on sharing the road with cyclists
This is a corrected version of the post. As a triathlete, Mary Eggers logs plenty of time on her bicycle. But after her friend, Fairport teacher Heather Boyum, was killed last month while riding in Penfield, she’s been hesitant to ride on the road. It didn’t help that, shortly after that tragedy, a friend was […]
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NEWS BLOG: Do we need a new train station?
I’m having trouble getting excited about the intermodal station. The idea is to tear down the train station on Central Avenue, which was supposed to be temporary when it was built in 1978, and replace it with a new station that would also house intercity buses like Greyhound and Trailways. The proposed design looks nice: […]
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Transportation guide
BY WILLIE CLARK Friday night. Orientation’s done. It’s your first weekend in Rochester. No curfew. You’re ready to hit the town. One thing stands in your way: warp pipes don’t surround your school, and you have no idea how to get anywhere. You haven’t made friends with car-owning upperclassmen yet (put that on your to-do […]
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’08: Surviving without a car
BY JESSICA BAKEMAN Having a car is a luxury most of us take for granted. But now that you’re a poor college student, perhaps in a new town and alone for the first time in your life, that luxury is probably a distant memory. For all of you new to Rochester — or to the […]
