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Transport: Expo Line, Private Buses, VMT Declines, Buffalo LRT, Ray LaHood on Houston, SF Street Names

May 3, 2013
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TRANSPORT Expo Light Rail One Year Later Neon Tommy , via: @cruickshank   When the Expo Line, Los Angeles Metro’s newest light rail line, opened in April 2012, initial ridership numbers were low, starting at around 11,000 per average weekday, a fact which many media sources reported on.
Read On   The Hidden Private Bus Network Metro Planning The Connector   When the removal of a certain “perk”…
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Urban Issues: HUD Downsizing, Eds and Meds, Turin's Resurgence and Paris' Governance

April 30, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES The Boom and Bust Cycle of Urban Investment New York Times   FOR the past several years all the ingredients have been in place for an urban crisis. Unemployment has hovered above 15 percent in many of our most distressed cities.
Read On   Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland   As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
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Urbanism & Design: Google's Southern Strategy, Top 10 Cities To Travel Car Free, LRT To Revitalize Poor Denver Area, Impact Of Driverless Cars

April 23, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Google's Southern Strategy, Attractive City Clusters  Seattle Times   The first paragraph from the Charlotte Observer's story might make one think that the South is getting ready to stick it to the high-tax, high-regulation West Coast again:
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Transport: Transit Wiki, Richmond VA Transit Network Plans, Driving Down & Highway Spending Up, Speeding Seattle Transit Studies

April 11, 2013
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TRANSPORT Transit Wiki for Information Sharing  Human Transit   I've recently learned of a new resource for sharing knowledge and best practices related to transit planning: transitwiki.org.
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Urbanism & Design: NJ Waterfront Development Feud, Sheep As Lawmowers, Chicago TIF Strategy, Creating Silicon Valley Urban Center

April 8, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A City Model During the Great War  Bldg Blog   Past Horizons reported the other week that "a large concrete terrain model on Cannock Chase, representing a section of the Great War battle of Messines Ridge, is to be excavated" by archaeologists later this year.
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Environment & Ecology: Innovative Park Governance, Paris to Harness Energy from Marathoners

April 8, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Innovative Park Governance  City Parks Blog   So went the thinking behind the creation of Central Park Conservancy as recounted by Adrian Benepe, former New York City Parks Commissioner and now Director of Urban Parks for the Trust for Public Land.
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Urbanism & Design: Low Impact Design Standards, Pittsburgh TOD, Height Isn't Density, Preserving Berlin Wall, Affordable Housing & Corridor Planning

March 21, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN DDOT Drafting Low Impact Design Standards  Georgetown Patch   DDOT welcomes public feedback on draft design standards for low impact development and green infrastructure for the public right-of-way.
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Blogosphere: POTUS Plan Lacks Transit, Making City Walkable, Streetcars Vs. Buses, Buying American Buses & Jobs, Cleveland TOD

February 21, 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: Why Are School Buses Yellow? New York Times Cityroom (via @mikelydon)
A question came to mind as school bus drivers prepared to start their engines on Wednesday on 7,700 public-school routes in New York City and end their monthlong strike: Why are most school buses yellow?..

Read On Blogosphere: POTUS' Infrastructure Plan, Lack Transit Next City (via @ttpolitic)
President Obama today…
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Blogosphere: Fighting Mud On Seattle-Everett Run, Low-Income & Cycling, Corridor Vs. Network Capacity, Chicago BRT Design

January 30, 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: Uber Got Us Thinking About Taxi Regs Next American City
A taxi industry that "plays dirty," and city regulators who for decades have been willing to engage it in "backroom deals," said Uber CEO Travis Kalanick at last week's State of the Net conference in Washington, D.C., are increasingly being outmatched by his savvy start-up..

Read On Blogosphere: Can NW Rail be Mud Proofed? Crosscut
It's mudslide time again. The gooey stuff…
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Blogosphere: London Orbital Railway, Reshaping El Paso, Urban forensics in SF, Buffalo's Zoning Effort,

December 10, 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. TRANSPORT Editorial: Cracks in Nation's Foundation New York Times
Across the coasts of New York and New Jersey, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage are spilling into waterways and the ocean...

Read On London: City's Transit Revolution, Circle City The Atlantic Cities
This Saturday, London gets its first real orbital railway. This new line will ease pressure elsewhere and allow travelers to circumnavigate the…
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