News: Conversation With LaHood, Cincinnati Streetcar Fight, Montana Coal Train Worries, Chattanooga Bike Share, Maine City Vs. Subsurbs
December 21, 2012
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National: Improving DOT - Conversation with Ray LaHood
Washington Post (via Streetsblog DC)
The idea that you engage employees and not only listen but follow through is central to the idea of building a relationship. I've met with all the employees in every department...
Read On Cincinnati: City Strikes Back in Streetcar Fight…
The idea that you engage employees and not only listen but follow through is central to the idea of building a relationship. I've met with all the employees in every department...
Read On Cincinnati: City Strikes Back in Streetcar Fight…
News: China's $127B Rail Projects, Peoria Streetcar Return, Nashville BRT, Urban Walkability Popularity, California Soda Tax War
September 6, 2012
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International: $127B in Rail Projects Approved
China Daily
China's top economic planner announced on Wednesday the approval of 25 new urban rail transit and intercity rail line projects with a total investment of more than 800 billlion yuan ($127 billion) as the world's second-largest economy struggles with a slowdown...
Read On Peoria IL: Streetcars Coming Back to Peoria? Peoria Journal Star
There's…
China's top economic planner announced on Wednesday the approval of 25 new urban rail transit and intercity rail line projects with a total investment of more than 800 billlion yuan ($127 billion) as the world's second-largest economy struggles with a slowdown...
Read On Peoria IL: Streetcars Coming Back to Peoria? Peoria Journal Star
There's…
Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America: How Smaller Cities and Rural Places Are Using Transit and Mobility Investments to Strengthen Their Economies and Communities
May 24, 2012
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Introduction
Public transportation plays a critical and expanding role in rural America. Just as it does in urban environments, public transportation in small towns and rural areas provides mobility choices and promotes sustainable economies. Across the country, small towns and rural communities are developing partnerships to build intermodal transit centers, creating circulator buses to catalyze private investments in their downtowns, and improving connections between people and jobs. Small towns are using public transportation investments to help address the challenges of limited resources, populations both shrinking and growing older, industrial decline, and the loss of farmland. Through strong partnerships and creative funding mechanisms, rural America is creating stronger and healthier communities through transit1 investments. Connie Garber, a passionate advocate of rural services and transportation director at York County Community Action Corporation in Maine, sums…
Reconnecting America and Community Transportation Association of America release Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America
May 24, 2012
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Reconnecting America and the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) today released a report that examines how smaller communities and rural regions are using transit and other mobility investments to revitalize their economies and connect residents to local and regional opportunities.
News: Reno Rapid Bus, Best Case Fed Transpo Bill, Twin Cities Central Corridor, Subway Evolution, Urban Suburban
May 16, 2012
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Reno: City to Get Rapid Bus Line
Fox Reno
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff today announced that the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County received a $5.1 million grant to purchase new hybrid-electric buses and build a new fueling station...
Read On Pennsylvania: Rendell - Bill Should 'Do No Harm' Transportation Nation
Transit backers have…
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff today announced that the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County received a $5.1 million grant to purchase new hybrid-electric buses and build a new fueling station...
Read On Pennsylvania: Rendell - Bill Should 'Do No Harm' Transportation Nation
Transit backers have…
2012 Rural Community Conference
May 15, 2012
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Reconnecting America President and CEO John Robert Smith will be attending the 2012 Rural Community Conference in Bozeman, Montanna. He will give the conference-closing speech on the topic of community revitalization. The Future of Rural conference will be held May 15-16 at the Montana State University campus. More information here.
Community Resiliency and the Built Environment: Innovations and Policy Issues in Montana
March 14, 2012
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Reconnecting America President and CEO John Robert Smith will participate in a webinar discussion of the article he and Gene Townsend, Mayor of Three Forks, wrote for the Montan Policy Review. (Read the article here.) Each week the Montana Policy Review: Extended Conversation has been hosting an author from its Fall 2011 issue. All webinars will be recorded and archived on the MSU Local Government Center website.
News: Paying For Sidewalks, LRT & BRT In Detroit, Health & Transportation, Model Cities, Anti-Planning Activists, HSR Route To Los Angeles
January 10, 2012
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National: The Tricks of a Real Estate Photographer
Wall Street Journal
A bit of advice from one of New York City's top real-estate photographers: Think of a property listing like a profile on dating website. The pictures should be as flattering as possible without tipping into outright deception...
Read On Montana: Paying for Sidewalks Like Healthcare Missoulian
Missoulians want a lot more…
A bit of advice from one of New York City's top real-estate photographers: Think of a property listing like a profile on dating website. The pictures should be as flattering as possible without tipping into outright deception...
Read On Montana: Paying for Sidewalks Like Healthcare Missoulian
Missoulians want a lot more…
Blogosphere: HUD Grants, Finding Home for FBI, Rural Success in Montana, Gas Tax Evaporates, Big Housing Bad Idea
November 22, 2011
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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.
Commentary: I-95 Has Got to Go
Philly Magazine
If there's one thing that everyone in the Philadelphia area can agree on (along with the fact that Andy Reid still can't play-call his way out of a paper bag), it's that the stretch of I-95 that runs through the city really, really blows...
Read On Blogosphere: Poticha - What These Grants Mean HUD Blog
All across the country, thousands of Americans spend a great…
If there's one thing that everyone in the Philadelphia area can agree on (along with the fact that Andy Reid still can't play-call his way out of a paper bag), it's that the stretch of I-95 that runs through the city really, really blows...
Read On Blogosphere: Poticha - What These Grants Mean HUD Blog
All across the country, thousands of Americans spend a great…
Transportation Triage: Rebuilding A 20th Century System While Preparing for the 21st
September 12, 2011
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Building the System We Want
Montana’s communities face diverse transportation challenges. Some areas are growing rapidly without the resources to properly plan for and serve new residents. Others are losing people and have high aging and low-income populations that need a variety of reliable transportation options. Many are simply reeling from decades of under investment in infrastructure and are in need of a lifeline.1
Every six years or so, Congress writes the rules for spending federal transportation dollars. In the current drafting of the bill, transportation for America is calling on Congress to reorient our policy toward repairing and maintaining our 20th century transportation systems while building for the 21st century. The current federal transportation program provides scant assurance that our hard-earned tax dollars will be spent wisely and effectively and fails to adequately invest in a variety of travel options. We need federal transportation legislation that addresses…
