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Terrorism
America Under Threat: Transit Responds to Terrorism
September 11, 2001, Special Report
American Public Transportation Association
www.apta.com/services/security/documents/911.pdf
The Friction Economy: American business just got the bill
for the terrorist attacks: $151 billion—a year
Anna Bernasek, Fortune, February 18, 2002
www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,367800,00.html
(Registration required)
How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism
Peter Huber and Mark P. Mills, City Journal, Winter 2002
www.city-journal.org/html/12_1_how_tech.html
Safety and Security
CDC Leading Causes of Death, United States, 1999
Office of Statistics and Programming, National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(Data Source: National Center for Health Statistics vital statistics
system)
webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html
Transportation Security Administration
www.tsa.gov/
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
www.nhtsa.dot.gov
Mn/DOT Workers Memorial
www.dot.state.mn.us/projects/wmd2000/history.html
Mn/DOT Work Zone Safety
www.dot.state.mn.us/workzone/
Mn Dept of Labor & Industry–Workplace Safety Consultation
www.doli.state.mn.us/wsc.html
Transit
U.S. Transportation Secretary Announces $49.5 Million Transit
Grant to Minnesota
Monday, April 29, 2002
www.dot.gov/affairs/fta1202.htm
Mn/DOT Metropolitan Rail Office Hiawatha Light Rail Project
www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/lrt/
Metropolitan Council Hiawatha Light Rail Project
www.metrocouncil.org/transportation/lrt/lrt.htm
Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition
www.midwesthsr.org/
Air and Rail
Amtrak Terminal?
Peter Longini, Mass Transit, April 2002
www.masstransitmag.com/script/search.asp?SearchSiteURL=\articles\2002\mt_04-02\mt_04-02_05.htm
Air-Travel spending likely to fall in 2002
Tom Belden, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21, 2002
www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/travel/3109585.htm