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Urban Issues: Ghana Urban Policy, Protecting Renters From Gentrification, Philly Innovation Hub, Taxes For Better Neighborhoods
April 17, 2013
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Ghana Finally Adopts Urban Policy
Next City
"Farouk's people came in their numbers," says Mr. Kwado Yeboah, Principal Town Planner in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
News: Tyson's Corner Buses, Underground At 150, Houston-Dallas HSR Study, DC Focus Jobs & Activity Centers, Guatamala's Private City For Elites
January 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.
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National: Sen KBH Denies Transpo Secretary Rumors
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Former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is dismissing a report that mentioned her as a potential Transportation Secretary during President Obama's second term...
Read On Virginia: Buses at the Center of Tyson's Plan Washington Post
With Metro's arrival in Tysons Corner less than a year away, mass transit is the talk of Northern Virginia planning and transportation experts. The…
Former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is dismissing a report that mentioned her as a potential Transportation Secretary during President Obama's second term...
Read On Virginia: Buses at the Center of Tyson's Plan Washington Post
With Metro's arrival in Tysons Corner less than a year away, mass transit is the talk of Northern Virginia planning and transportation experts. The…
News: Virginia Streetcar Route, Transit & Economy, $1 Billion Sprawl Plans, Hitchhiking Carpools, Tampa Future Vision
November 14, 2012
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Virginia: Route 1 Streetcar Wanted
WTOP
Arlington and Alexandria both want a streetcar line along Route 1 to link the Northern Virginia communities but the two are at odds over timing and tactics...
Read On Nashville: Transit Plans Drive Economy Tennessean
My family has long recognized the impact transit has on development. My great-grandfather built his H.G. Hill Food Stores business by putting a grocery store everywhere the old Nashville streetcar stopped...
Arlington and Alexandria both want a streetcar line along Route 1 to link the Northern Virginia communities but the two are at odds over timing and tactics...
Read On Nashville: Transit Plans Drive Economy Tennessean
My family has long recognized the impact transit has on development. My great-grandfather built his H.G. Hill Food Stores business by putting a grocery store everywhere the old Nashville streetcar stopped...
Blogosphere: Transit & Cycling Gains, Case For Bus Transfers, Special Assessment Transit Fund, Urban Economics, SF Floating Ecotopia
October 29, 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: Report Shows Gains for Cycling, Transit
Grist
A new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures is full to the brim with findings on American urbanism and transportation alternatives...
Read On Blogosphere: The Case for Bus Transfers The Atlantic Cities
Earlier this week we tracked a designer's frustrating efforts to simplify Dublin's "confusing and nonsensical" bus system. Today we…
A new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures is full to the brim with findings on American urbanism and transportation alternatives...
Read On Blogosphere: The Case for Bus Transfers The Atlantic Cities
Earlier this week we tracked a designer's frustrating efforts to simplify Dublin's "confusing and nonsensical" bus system. Today we…
News: Boston Subway Capacity Worry, VA Streetcar Compromise, Toronto Streetcar Alternatives, Beautiful Walking Paths
June 15, 2012
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Boston: T Ridership Could Overwhelm the System
Boston Globe
By the end of the decade, Boston's subways could grow so packed that trains would roll past waiting commuters, unable to accommodate more riders, a new report from a leading land-use think tank warns...
Read On Boston: New Balance's Rail Stop is Loud Endorsement Boston Globe
Lately, the notion that commuter rail can reliably meet the…
By the end of the decade, Boston's subways could grow so packed that trains would roll past waiting commuters, unable to accommodate more riders, a new report from a leading land-use think tank warns...
Read On Boston: New Balance's Rail Stop is Loud Endorsement Boston Globe
Lately, the notion that commuter rail can reliably meet the…
Blogosphere: Fed Transpo Talks, Parisian Street Design, How To Urbanize, Urban-Suburban Divide, Beltline & Gentrification
June 15, 2012
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Blogosphere: Boxer Changes Her Tone
DC Streetsblog
The transportation bill conference committee negotiations have been difficult and contentious, by all accounts - all except Senator Barbara Boxer's account. The EPW chair has been optimistic when others have been bitter, consistently focusing on how much the two sides agree rather than the places where they're still far apart...
Read On Blogosphere: MSNBC's Chris Hayes Bike Commute DC…
The transportation bill conference committee negotiations have been difficult and contentious, by all accounts - all except Senator Barbara Boxer's account. The EPW chair has been optimistic when others have been bitter, consistently focusing on how much the two sides agree rather than the places where they're still far apart...
Read On Blogosphere: MSNBC's Chris Hayes Bike Commute DC…
Blogosphere: LA Fare Evasion, How NY Rides Bikes, NC Transit Vote, Urban Ag, London's Urban Foxes, Pseudo Suburbanists
May 30, 2012
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Blogosphere: Does Locking Gates Make Fiscal Sense?
LA Streetsblog
One justification offered for the need to gate Los Angeles' rail system is that the present "Proof-of-Payment" system is evaded by a large number of people and that gates will increase revenue collection. This presumes only gating can reduce the level of fare evasion occurring...
Read On Blogosphere: This is How We Ride New York…
One justification offered for the need to gate Los Angeles' rail system is that the present "Proof-of-Payment" system is evaded by a large number of people and that gates will increase revenue collection. This presumes only gating can reduce the level of fare evasion occurring...
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Blogosphere: NY Transit News Coverage, SF Bus Signal Priority, :Personal Rapid Transit, Psychology of Suburbia
March 21, 2012
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Blogosphere: Transit Coverage for the Birds
Second Avenue Sagas
Covering the ins and outs of transit news isn't necessarily a sexy business. The vast majority of New Yorkers couldn't care less about safety regulations, debt financing, bond issuances or the behind-the-scenes politics of the MTA Board...
Read On Blogosphere: Transit Priority for Half of Signals SF Streetsblog
Two years from now, Muni buses will…
Covering the ins and outs of transit news isn't necessarily a sexy business. The vast majority of New Yorkers couldn't care less about safety regulations, debt financing, bond issuances or the behind-the-scenes politics of the MTA Board...
Read On Blogosphere: Transit Priority for Half of Signals SF Streetsblog
Two years from now, Muni buses will…
Blogosphere: Alexandria Mapping Magic
May 6, 2011|Greater Greater Washington
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Dan Malouff created a series of thematic maps of DC using GIS data available from the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO). He posted maps of topography, building footprint, and basic land use... Read On
Blogosphere: Access to Metrorail
August 4, 2009|Greater Greater Washington
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Metro has posted some fascinating charts from their bicycle and pedestrian study. Here's their chart showing the relative mode share for riders at each station: ....
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