Transport: Bike Infrastructure Debate, Oakland Streetcar Study, Spanish HSR Lessons, Milwaukee Streetcar Plan Threatened
May 9, 2013
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Bike Infrastructure Debate Settled
Streetsblog Net
For decades, cyclists bickered amongst themselves about the efficacy and safety of bike infrastructure. With the proliferation of protected bike lanes in recent years, however, everyone can see that predictions about bike lanes making streets more dangerous for cycling simply didn't come to pass.
Other Views: Smaller Cars Better Than Bigger Streets?
May 9, 2013
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Smaller Cars Better Than Bigger Streets?
Tango Cars
Auckland New Zealand may be the first city to realize that it can be 10 times less expensive and 10 times faster to purchase and lease Tangos to commuters rather than spend tens of $billions of taxpayer funds on more freeways and other transportation infrastructure.
Transport: Colorado Road Funds For Transit, Infrastructure & Democracy, Streetcars & Overhead Wires, Pedestrian Death Toll
May 8, 2013
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Colorado Road Money Can Be Used for Transit Now
Denver Post, via: DC Streetsblog
A new state law that quietly moved through this year's legislature gives cities and counties unprecedented…
Urban Issues: Social Media & Planners, Seattle Foreclosure Pain, Online Taxes & Local Stores, Chicago Housing Growth
May 8, 2013
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Social Media Can Help Planners, Two Cases
Planetizen, Brent Todarian
With the right approach, social media can expedite the exchange of information between stakeholders, facilitate participatory planning, and build better places.
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Are We There Yet? 'Smart Mobility' Options
May 7, 2013
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Editor's Note: There are many ways to weave walking, biking, and transit into a seamless tapestry of transportation choices and today's excerpt from Are We There Yet? examines some of the myriad smartphone apps and other efforts that are creating the safe and pleasant connections to transit opportunities that are critical in order to give people more choices for getting around.
Visit the Are We There Yet? home The growing demand for more safe and pleasant environments for walking, biking and taking transit is being aided by transportation engineers like Dan Sturges, who are focused on making it easier for people to get to and from transit stations and bus stops — the so-called “first mile/last mile” connection. Because so many neighborhoods have been built to accommodate the automobile — with wide streets, deep lots and long distances between things — it isn’t always easy to get to stations, and there’s…
Visit the Are We There Yet? home The growing demand for more safe and pleasant environments for walking, biking and taking transit is being aided by transportation engineers like Dan Sturges, who are focused on making it easier for people to get to and from transit stations and bus stops — the so-called “first mile/last mile” connection. Because so many neighborhoods have been built to accommodate the automobile — with wide streets, deep lots and long distances between things — it isn’t always easy to get to stations, and there’s…
Transport: Disneyland Streetcar Demands, Public Roads & Private Funding, Strategic Freight Plan, 100,000 Budapest Critical Mass Ride
May 7, 2013
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Disneyland Demands Raise Streetcar Costs
Kitsap Sun
While various stakeholders continue to disagree on the merits of Anaheim's proposed streetcar project, there is no debating that it is the most expensive project of its kind in recent memory.
Urbanism & Design: Boston South Bay Plans, America's Falling Population Density, Pleasant Hill BART TOD, Revitalizing Wichita
May 7, 2013
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Resident's Plan Calls for Mixed Use in Boston South Bay
Boston Globe
Nearby residents and other neighbors of the South Bay Shopping Center have developed a master plan to help guide future development in the area.
Other Views: AASHTO Poll Says Tolling Prefered Funding Mechanism
May 7, 2013
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AASHTO Poll Says Tolling Prefered Funding Mechanism
AASHTO Journal, via: LA Metro Transportation Library
The American motoring public prefers tolling to many other ways to generate funding…
Transit-Oriented Development in the Chicago Region: Efficient and Resilient Communities for the 21st Century
May 6, 2013
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Transit-Oriented Development in the Chicago Region, 2000–2010
Mixed-use centers anchored by public transit are essential to the triple bottom line, or the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the Chicago Region. With the publication of GO TO 2040 in 2010, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) put forth a vision to grow the transit-oriented development (TOD) areas of the Region and make them communities of choice. In 2012 the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) built on this vision with the publication of Prospering In Place, which honored GO TO 2040 for its commitment to reconnect land use, transportation, and the economy, and recommended the locations in the Chicago Region that had the best prospects for growth—and hence warranted priority access to public and private resources. Prospering in Place was also a cautionary story of how a blueprint alone, without a place-based framework for development, will not reverse the…
Transport: Twin Cities Transit, Tampa's Transit Election, Frontrunner Ridership, Transit Clubs, Hudson Bergen LRT
May 6, 2013
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Without Transit Plans, Twin Cities Not Competitive
Minneapolis Star Tribune
During a spring in which almost anything seems possible, here’s a headline you’re not going to see: “Salt Lake City agrees to stop transit construction so Twin Cities can catch up.”
Read On Tampa’s Hopes of City Transit Election Fail in Statehouse St. Petersburg Times It was a long shot from the start,…
Read On Tampa’s Hopes of City Transit Election Fail in Statehouse St. Petersburg Times It was a long shot from the start,…
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