TOD Priority Market Framework
May 15, 2013
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Elizabeth Wampler and Abby Thorne-Lyman will be in the Twin Cities to meet with the Advisory Group for the TOD Priority Market Framework. The Framework will be an implementation tool to assist the region in prioritizing investment along transit corridors based on market readiness for investment, existing infrastructure for TOD, and social characteristics that connect people to jobs. This project is being funded by the McKnight Foundation.
Corridors Of Opportunity In The Twin Cities
January 23, 2013
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The Metropolitcan Council in the Twin Cities has their new Corridors of Opportunity website.
Blogosphere: Cincinatti Streetcar, Affordable Housing & TOD, Portland Inspiration To DC, Chair Sharing In Rotterdam
September 20, 2012
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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.
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Blogosphere: Cinci Allows Streetcar to Advance
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Cincinnati leaders announced a major step today in moving forward the construction schedule of the Cincinnati streetcar, after a recent memo from City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. conceded that the project opening had been delayed to summer 2015...
Read On URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT Blogosphere: Affordable Housing in the Central Corridor…
Cincinnati leaders announced a major step today in moving forward the construction schedule of the Cincinnati streetcar, after a recent memo from City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. conceded that the project opening had been delayed to summer 2015...
Read On URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT Blogosphere: Affordable Housing in the Central Corridor…
News: CAHSR Friends & Foes, Cincinnati Streetcar Funds, Nashville BRT Forum, Crime & Mode Choice, TOD Overlays
July 10, 2012
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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 California: Jerry Brown Excited About HSR Funding Los Angeles Times
"It's a jobs creator, and thank God we got it," Gov. Jerry Brown said of funding for high speed rail, narrowly approved by the Legislature last week...
Read On California: Vote Reveals Anti-HSR Faultline Transportation Nation
California Governor Jerry Brown scored a razor-thin legislative victory on Friday when the California State Legislature voted to release…
TRANSPORT California: Jerry Brown Excited About HSR Funding Los Angeles Times
"It's a jobs creator, and thank God we got it," Gov. Jerry Brown said of funding for high speed rail, narrowly approved by the Legislature last week...
Read On California: Vote Reveals Anti-HSR Faultline Transportation Nation
California Governor Jerry Brown scored a razor-thin legislative victory on Friday when the California State Legislature voted to release…
News: CAHSR Funding, Research HSR & Cities, LA Area Airport Transit Hub, Phoenix LRT Extension, Twin Cities Housing Market
July 9, 2012
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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 California: State Approves Funding for HSR Politico
The California state Senate passed a budget measure Friday afternoon that sealed the deal: High-speed rail is coming to the Golden State. The bill passed with only Democratic support in the upper chamber, 21-16, and authorizes the state to provide $2.7 billion in funds that the Department of Transportation will match..
Read On California: HSR a Big Win for State Los Angeles Times
The state Senate vote authorizing initial funding for California's…
TRANSPORT California: State Approves Funding for HSR Politico
The California state Senate passed a budget measure Friday afternoon that sealed the deal: High-speed rail is coming to the Golden State. The bill passed with only Democratic support in the upper chamber, 21-16, and authorizes the state to provide $2.7 billion in funds that the Department of Transportation will match..
Read On California: HSR a Big Win for State Los Angeles Times
The state Senate vote authorizing initial funding for California's…
Twin Cities TOD Advisory Committee meeting
April 17, 2012
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Reconnecting America Policy Associate Elizabeth Wampler will be in Minneappolis on April 17 and 18 for the local TOD Advisory Committee meeting. The TOD Advisory Committee brings together a collection of public agency representatives, regional non-profit advocacy groups, the business community, foundation staff and others that represent a growing network of groups proactively engaged in supporting transit-oriented development in the Twin Cities. Read more about the committee here.
Twin Cities: Funds Aimed at Area TOD Projects
October 4, 2011|Twin Cities Finance and Commerce
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Some $33.3 million should soon be available to support transit-oriented development primarily in 11 metro cities. Most of that - $32.3 million - comes from money that the Metropolitan Council had committed to projects that just didn't happen over the last few years because of the poor economy, as well as dollars socked away in a contingency fund in case the council's transit operations needed money... Read On
Beyond Projects To Placemaking.
July 20, 2011
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Reconnecting America Program Associate/Data Analyst Elizabeth Wampler will be in Minneapolis on July 20 for the kickoff of the Central Corridor Coordinated Affordable Housing Plan. More details here.
Central Corridor Funders Collaborative
March 15, 2011
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Reconnecting America Program Director Catherine Cox Blair and Center for Transit-Oriented Development Director Sam Zimbabwe will be in the Twin Cities on March 15-16 to attend the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative learning network breakfast and help lead a transit-oriented development workshop with the southwest corridor light rail jurisdictions.
Twin Cities TOD Advisory Group
March 8, 2011
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Center for Transit-Oriented Development Director Sam Zimbabwe and Reconnecting America Policy Director Sarah Kline will be in Minnesota on March 8-9 to convene a Twin Cities regional transit-oriented development advisory group.
