Blogosphere: A Fuel Tax For Schools, Walk Score Bikability, Twin Cities LRT Route OK, Smart Growth & Big Government
December 19, 2012
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Blogosphere: Washington Gov Surprising Tax Proposal
Transportation Issues Daily
Governor Chris Gregoire proposes a new fuel tax, but where the revenue goes might disappoint road, transit, bike-ped, rail and other transportation interests...
Read On Blogosphere: Sustainable Transport Gaining Momentum This Big City
With a population of nearly 2.5 million, Cali is ranked as the third biggest city in Colombia…
Governor Chris Gregoire proposes a new fuel tax, but where the revenue goes might disappoint road, transit, bike-ped, rail and other transportation interests...
Read On Blogosphere: Sustainable Transport Gaining Momentum This Big City
With a population of nearly 2.5 million, Cali is ranked as the third biggest city in Colombia…
Blogosphere: Traffic Engineering Fail, Light Rail & Freight Rail, KC Streetcar Plan, Infrastructure Cliff, Millennials & Suburbs
December 6, 2012
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Blogosphere: Fundamental Failure of Traffic Engineering
Atlantic Cities
What if we designed cities for pedestrians and people on bicycles rather than engineering them for people in cars? What if a bike lane were as easy and intuitive to use as a chair, for instance, or a toothbrush, or a smartphone?..
Read On Blogosphere: City Likes SW LRT, Not Current Plan Minnesota Post
Nobody wants the freight…
What if we designed cities for pedestrians and people on bicycles rather than engineering them for people in cars? What if a bike lane were as easy and intuitive to use as a chair, for instance, or a toothbrush, or a smartphone?..
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Nobody wants the freight…
Blogosphere: DC Privatized Streetcar, Bottineau LRT Route, Ignoring Transit Benefits, Race & TOD
June 27, 2012
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Blogosphere: DC Explores Semi-Privatized Streetcar
Washington City Paper
Well, this could be a way to build a massive infrastructure project without busting the city's budget: The District Department of Transportation is asking for ideas on how to bring in private capital for a 22-mile chunk of the original 37-mile streetcar system, and build it over the next five to seven years...
Well, this could be a way to build a massive infrastructure project without busting the city's budget: The District Department of Transportation is asking for ideas on how to bring in private capital for a 22-mile chunk of the original 37-mile streetcar system, and build it over the next five to seven years...
Blogosphere: Leftover Parking Spaces, Planning Accessibility, London TOD Lessons, Visualizing Density, Essential Bars
June 1, 2012
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Blogosphere: Visualizing the World's Flight Paths
Digital Urban
Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org...
Read On Blogosphere: Less Driving, Wither the Parking Lot? Governing
Parking lots and spaces are a necessary evil of city…
Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org...
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Parking lots and spaces are a necessary evil of city…
Blogosphere: Attack On Transit Funds, Fuel Economy Undermines Highways, Urban County, Promoting TOD, World's Smartest City
February 3, 2012
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Blogosphere: Ways & Means Would Shift Transit Monies
T4 America
Reversing policy begun under President Ronald Reagan, House Ways and Means Committee - at the direction of House leadership - could move Friday to end guaranteed funding for public transportation, and leave even today's inadequate funding levels in doubt...
Reversing policy begun under President Ronald Reagan, House Ways and Means Committee - at the direction of House leadership - could move Friday to end guaranteed funding for public transportation, and leave even today's inadequate funding levels in doubt...
News: Rental Housing Demand, Travel Choices, Iowa Politics Ignores Cities, Dallas TOD Opportunity, Hawaii Rail, LA Parking
January 4, 2012
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National: Demand Driving Rental Construction
Wall Street Journal (via @johnlangem)
Residential construction surged in November, sparking cautious hope that the U.S. housing market is gaining traction. Housing starts hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 685,000 units, the highest level in 19 months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. ..
Residential construction surged in November, sparking cautious hope that the U.S. housing market is gaining traction. Housing starts hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 685,000 units, the highest level in 19 months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. ..
Blogosphere: Bogota's Mayoral Race Shaping Up
October 27, 2011|The Atlantic Cities
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Shadows hang over the mayoral elections taking place this Sunday in Bogota, Colombia, the country's capital and biggest city. With its current mayor, Samuel Moreno, removed from office and in jail awaiting trial over bribery charges, residents there are understandably disillusioned with politicians... Read On
Blogosphere: The Good, The Bus, The Ugly
July 18, 2011|The City Fix
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The Colombian capital of Bogota has been praised for more than a decade concerning its dramatic transformation, which centered around the TransMilenio bus rapid transit (BRT) system, ushered in by former mayor Enrique Peñalosa... Read On
International: The Rise and Fall of Bogota
March 15, 2011|The Economist (via @btx91)
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THE bright-red articulated buses of Bogotá's TransMilenio, with their dedicated lanes and station-style stops, were once the symbol of a city that had been transformed from chaos and corruption in the 1980s into a model of enlightened management admired and imitated across Latin America....
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March 15, 2011|The Economist
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"But Mr Peñalosa, who was once talked of as a future president of Colombia, is better at urban management than at politics. Mr Moreno beat him easily in 2007 by promising to start building a metro-a pledge which he has yet to keep. Mr Peñalosa, ever the technocrat, pointed out in vain that TransMilenio offered much better value for money. "
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