Blogosphere: Elusive Transpo Bill, Sidewalk Hazards, Human Subway Map, Philly Fresh Food Investment, Total Landscape
June 12, 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: Transportation Bill Now More Elusive
DC Streetsblog
We reported last week that the House had proposed allowing states to "opt out" of funding bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements in its counter-offer to the Senate during transportation bill negotiations...
Read On Blogosphere: Marked Sidewalks Considered Harmful Transportationist
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We reported last week that the House had proposed allowing states to "opt out" of funding bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements in its counter-offer to the Senate during transportation bill negotiations...
Read On Blogosphere: Marked Sidewalks Considered Harmful Transportationist
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Blogosphere: Private LRT Funding In Detroit, US HSR Future, DC Streetcar Revitalization, Kansas City Rail Future, Indy Regional Bike Map
May 31, 2012
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Blogosphere: Private Funding of Detroit Project Gift
Forbes
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood is coming to Detroit on Monday and the city's most prominent business leaders have their fingers crossed that he'll deliver the federal government's blessing on a long-awaited light rail project downtown...
Read On Blogosphere: Is HSR Pulling Into a City Near You? Chicago Policy Review…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood is coming to Detroit on Monday and the city's most prominent business leaders have their fingers crossed that he'll deliver the federal government's blessing on a long-awaited light rail project downtown...
Read On Blogosphere: Is HSR Pulling Into a City Near You? Chicago Policy Review…
News: Transpo Funding Conference, Baton Rouge Transit Tax, Rio Grande Valley Rail, Detroit LRT Funders
April 24, 2012
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National: Maybe the System is Working!
Transportation Nation Experts Blog
Everybody take a deep breath. Congress is poised this week to appoint conferees to a long-awaited conference committee that will negotiate a highway bill. Finally. I know that President Obama has dangled a veto threat over the House version, and I know that Republicans are determined to link the politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline to a bipartisan infrastructure bill...
Read On Research: How to…
Everybody take a deep breath. Congress is poised this week to appoint conferees to a long-awaited conference committee that will negotiate a highway bill. Finally. I know that President Obama has dangled a veto threat over the House version, and I know that Republicans are determined to link the politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline to a bipartisan infrastructure bill...
Read On Research: How to…
Housing California 2012 Annual Conference
April 11, 2012
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Reconnecting America Chief of Staff Allison Brooks will be participating in a panel discussion of TOD financing tools at the 2012 Annual Housing California Conference in Sacramento on April 11. The panel, "Fresh Financing Tools to Support Affordable Homes and Equitable Transit-Oriented Development" will discuss tje omplex new partnerships between nonprofit community development organizations, government, philanthropic foundations, and community and private lenders who are merging to provide much-needed financing for mixed-income, transit-oriented development in regions around the United States. Funds created by these new partnerships are innovative tools in addressing the unique set of challenges posed by transit-oriented development, including limited land supply and higher costs in transit-rich areas, the need for higher-risk and more-patient capital, and local land-use and policy support for workforce housing and mixed-use development.
TransitRenewal 201202017
April 11, 2012
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Sacramento Regional Transit's draft TransitRenewal 2012-2017 Sevice Implementation for TransitAction has been added to the Research Center best practices database. The document aims to position the transit district's network to sustainably meet future transit demand within its service area.
TransitRenewal 2012-2017
March 26, 2012
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Introduction
The 2011-2012 Sacramento Regional Transit Comprehensive Operational Analysis, commonly known as “TransitRenewal”, includes a review of existing market conditions and transit service and aims to position the RT network to sustainably meet future transit demand within the service area. Sustainability is the method of using a resource without depleting or damaging it for future use. Sustainable transit planning focuses on meeting transit needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet such needs1. TransitRenewal responds to changing economic circumstances and RT’s new financial realities. In 2010, RT implemented substantial service reductions which included discontinuing several bus routes, reducing service levels, and reducing spans. TransitRenewal responds to RT’s plan to regain previous FY 2010 service levels and intends to identify core areas of the RT system where investment will have a maximum benefit, and will guide RT to…
Blogosphere: Changing Transpo Bill, Future Streets, Privatizing Parking, Tactical Urbanism, Arrival Cities
March 5, 2012
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Blogosphere: How Transpo Bill Changed Overnight
DC Streetsblog
The sun rose this morning on a landscape considerably different from the one described by not one but two articles Streetsblog published yesterday...
Read On Blogosphere: The Street of the Future! Streetsblog
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The sun rose this morning on a landscape considerably different from the one described by not one but two articles Streetsblog published yesterday...
Read On Blogosphere: The Street of the Future! Streetsblog
This 45-second simulation of cute miniature jelly beans multi-ton driverless vehicles navigating the…
News: 18 Month Transpo Bill, Longmont's Train Choice, Twin Cities Rail Support, Climate Adaption, Housing Crisis
March 1, 2012
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National: House GOP Floats 18 Month Bill
Transportation Nation
House Republican leaders have arrived at an 18-month highway bill they hope can replace a much broader five-year bill that faltered earlier this month, according to lawmakers and aides...
Read On Denver: Longmont Wants the Train Daily Camera
Faced with what it called a trio of bad FasTracks options, the council held its nose to choose one -- in one case,…
House Republican leaders have arrived at an 18-month highway bill they hope can replace a much broader five-year bill that faltered earlier this month, according to lawmakers and aides...
Read On Denver: Longmont Wants the Train Daily Camera
Faced with what it called a trio of bad FasTracks options, the council held its nose to choose one -- in one case,…
Blogosphere: Dallas LRT, Embracing Sacramento Streetcar, Federal Highway-Centric Bill, Illegal Guerrilla Wayfinding, Evolving Curbside
February 28, 2012
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Blogosphere: Dallas LRT, Tip of the Iceberg
DOT Fastlane
Whether it's reducing highway traffic by taking cars off the road, slowing the effect of carbon emissions, or spurring economic development along bus, subway, streetcar, and light rail routes, public transit helps move America...
Read On Editorial: City Council Should Embrace Streetcars Sacramento Bee
In mapping the future of downtown Sacramento, city…
Whether it's reducing highway traffic by taking cars off the road, slowing the effect of carbon emissions, or spurring economic development along bus, subway, streetcar, and light rail routes, public transit helps move America...
Read On Editorial: City Council Should Embrace Streetcars Sacramento Bee
In mapping the future of downtown Sacramento, city…
Sacramento: RT Overbudget on First Leg of Line
August 23, 2011|Sacramento Bee
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Laying track in downtown Sacramento is once again proving to be a budget-buster for Sacramento Regional Transit. Agency officials revealed they are facing $2 million to $3 million more in costs than expected during construction of the first leg of a light-rail extension... Read On
