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Environment & Ecology: Bringing Farming To City, Green Architecture, SF Bike Lane CEQA Challenge, Food Security Geopolitics, Urban Birdwatching

March 20, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Farmscape Hopes to Bring Farming to the City  USA Today   Rachel Bailin wants the next Los Angeles mayor to end dependence on foreign soil, balance the budget with equitable fertilizer, and appoint a compostmaster general.   Read On
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Transport: CAHSR Bond Sale, Toronto Transit Fees & Taxes Supported, Taking BART North, Clean Cars Vs. Efficient Modes

March 19, 2013
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TRANSPORT California Officials Approve HSR Bond Sale  Reuters   California officials approved on Monday the sale of up to $8.6 billion in state bonds to help build a planned high-speed rail system projected to cost $68 billion.
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Urban Issues: Poverty As Contagion of Obesity Epidemic, Seattle Affordable Housing Shortage, Land Conservancy Affordable TOD Land Purchase

March 19, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Poverty Ignored Contagion of Obesity Epidemic  New York Times   Under the category "Summer Rentals That Have Gone Terribly Wrong," there are perhaps few parallels to the experience of Charles Henry Warren, a Manhattan banker who, in 1906, took a house in Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore.
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Environment & Ecology: Food Innovation In UK, How Much Is Enough Parkland, Greening Light Rail Construction

March 19, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Tree That Might Have to Be Transplanted for Light Rail Not Doing Well  Houston Chronicle   An oak tree that for 30 years has stood as a 'sentinel' for a planned memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is struggling to survive, but the reason remains a mystery.
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News: Texas HSR Complications, Ft. Lauderdale Streetcar OK, London's New Urban Park, Retail Prospers Downtown, Penn Station TOD

March 14, 2013
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Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues.  It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. TRANSPORT Texas: Begging TXDOT to Not Mess Up HSR Dallas Observer
Texas Central Railway's plan, announced almost a year ago now, to build a high-speed rail line linking Houston and North Texas has hit a not altogether unexpected complication: inter-city squabbling over where the bullet train will stop...

Read On Fort Lauderdale: Streetcar Gets County OK Railway Age
Broward County, Fla., gave its approval Tuesday for a streetcar loop, dubbed "The Wave," to serve Fort…
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Blogosphere: Portland Bike Oriented Development, End Of Fed Highway Support, Accessing Academic Journals, Harvesting Rainwater, Building Better Civic Tech

March 12, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: Portland Retailers Swoop In on Bikeways Green Lane Project
Urban commercial real estate has always been a rough-and-tumble scrum, and now Amazon.com has torn up the playbook. Across the country, many brick-and-mortar retailers are in big trouble...

Read On Blogosphere: Why Was State Street Ped Mall a Failure Chicago Streetsblog
When I was a bicycle messenger in the early nineties, the State…
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Blogosphere: Vegas HSR Opposition, Nashville BRT, DC Parking Regs, SF Railyard Dispute, LA Harbor Freight Yards OK'd, London $1.3B Bike Plan

March 11, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: The Goal of Abundant Access Human Transit
In my book Human Transit, I argued that the underlying geometry of transit requires communities to make a series of choices, each of which is a tradeoff between two things that are popular...

Read On Blogosphere: Congressional R's Try to Block Vegas HSR CAHSR Blog
XpressWest has been waiting to hear from the federal government about their $5.5 billion loan request to help…
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News: Reshaping London Cycling, LA OKs Streetcar Plan, Blending CAHSR & Caltrain, Urban Design & Healthy Cities

March 8, 2013
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Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues.  It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news.  TRANSPORT International: Boris Could Change London Cycling Guardian UK
Mayor's new plans for cycling in the capital could re-shape the way Londoners transport themselves for decades to come...

Read On Los Angeles: LA City Council Approves Streetcar Plan San Jose Mercury News
The Los Angeles City Council has approved a 30-year plan for the funding and operation of a streetcar line in downtown Los Angeles...

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News: Maryland Gas Tax Hike, SF Growth Pains, HUD Housing Discrimination App, Urban Life In 2050, Austin Music Scene

March 5, 2013
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Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues.  It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. TRANSPORT Maryland: O'Malley Proposes Higher Gas Taxes Baltimore Sun
Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Democratic leaders of the General Assembly are proposing to raise taxes on gasoline by $2 billion over five years to pay for highways, transit and other transportation projects...

Read On Dallas: DART Examines Bringing Non Member Cities In DART Transportation Blog
Dallas Area Rapid Transit is considering joint negotiations with the Fort Worth Transportation Authority…
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News: MTA's Rat Problem, Ft. Worth Rail Plan, Toledo's Better Bus Station, Streetcar Economic Boost, Disney & Anaheim Streetcar, CAHSR Lawsuit Dismissed

March 4, 2013
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Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues.  It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news.  The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom. TRANSPORT New York: Box Tunnel Pact Reserves Space for Future Railway Age
Amtrak has reached tentative agreement with private developers in Manhattan to construct an 800-foot-long box tunnel on site at the 26-acre Hudson Yards development site on Manhattan's West Side...

Read On New York: MTA Works on Rat Problem Wall Street Journal
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