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			<title>Arlington police win national traffic-safety award</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Arlington County Police Department has been awarded first place in a national traffic-safety competition, taking top honors among agencies of between 200 and 500 sworn officers. -- <i>October 26, 2009, Sun Gazette</i>]]></description>
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			<title>SmarTrip changes coming in January</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Starting Jan. 1, Metro will make major changes in its popular SmartBenefits program that are designed to make transit more convenient, but information released so far has been confusing to employers and riders, who fear losing benefits. -- <i>By Lena H. Sun, October 28, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Major SmartBenefits changes to begin January 1, 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Beginning January 1, 2010, Metro's SmartBenefits? program will change and enable employers to comply with a new federal mandate that requires transit benefits to be disbursed and monitored separately from other value stored in their employees' SmarTrip? cards. -- <i>October 27, 2009, WMATA</i>]]></description>
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			<title>These SmartBenefit changes are baffling</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today, Metro sent out more information about the changes, which take effect Jan. 1. The transit authority says the changes are necessary to help employers comply with new IRS rules requiring that transit benefits be disbursed and monitored separately from other value stored in their employees' SmarTrip cards. -- <i>By Robert Thomson, October 27, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Census survey: It&apos;s a long, lonely commute</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Census Bureau's 2006-2008 American Community Survey shows that despite more than a decade of efforts to get commuters in the Washington region to carpool, take transit or live close enough to walk to work, most people continue to drive, drive alone and drive a long way to work. -- <i>By Robert Thomson, October 27, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Probe to check feasibility of Bus Rapid Transit system</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Montgomery County is seeking proposals for a Bus Rapid Transit system that its chief proponent says would overhaul the current Ride On bus system and cut down on traffic and carbon dioxide emissions. -- <i>By Erin Cunningham, October 26, 2009, Gazette.Net</i>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:51:15 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Real horror of Halloween: Pedestrian deaths</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Children are more than twice as likely to be killed by a car while walking on Halloween than any other night of the year, according to Safe Kids USA. -- <i>By Liz Szabo, October 26, 2009, USA Today</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Program to offer cash incentives for carpooling to work</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Commuters who drive on some of the D.C. region's most congested highways will be eligible to earn $2 a day by carpooling to work, under a pilot program launched Monday. -- <i>By Lisa Rein, October 26, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Security checks set Friday at commuter train stations</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Transit Administration Police will launch a program of random security checks at MARC commuter train stations Friday, using bomb-sniffing dogs to screen passengers' luggage and packages to detect explosives. -- <i>By Michael Dresser, October 27, 2009, Baltimore Sun</i>]]></description>
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			<title>People living near ICC ask for toll discount</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["I think it is a very reasonable idea that ought to be considered," Rosapepe tells WTOP. "I think everyone is concerned about the cost of the tolls on the road." -- <i>By Adam Tuss, October 26, 2009, WTOP</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Stafford school officials look at walking students</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some Stafford County students who currently walk to school instead of riding the bus may have safer routes next school year, school officials say. -- <i>By Jeff Branscome, October 26, 2009, Free Lance-Star</i>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:33:46 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Fairfax County Parkway extension project hits &apos;mega&apos; status</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Before the parkway extension improves access to the west of Interstate 95 from Newington, the project's construction phase will put drivers through some new maneuvers. -- <i>By Robert Thomson, October 25, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:24:58 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pr. George&apos;s looks to rely more on transit, HOV</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the county's 171-page transportation master plan, planners are calling for the extension of Metrorail's Purple and Green lines and consideration of high-occupancy lanes on planned roadways to ease traffic and get commuters out of their cars. -- <i>By Ovetta Wiggins, October 26, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
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