Transport: Oregon Wants Light Rail Or No Bridge, VMT Of Rural Vs Urban Drivers, NOLA Streetcar Expansion Plans, First BRT Corridor In Rio
April 24, 2013
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Oregon Will Kill CRC If It Doesn't Include Light Rail
Seattle Times
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's office says a proposed $3.4 billion Columbia River bridge will die if Washington state tries to remove light rail from the project.
News: Fort Worth Bike Sharing, St. Louis Streetcar Plans, Freight Monopoly Opposed, Milwaukee Streetcar Push, Planning Chicago's Future, 2013 Year To Buy Home
February 26, 2013
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Fort Worth: Bike Sharing to Launch in April
Fort Worth Star Telegram
The "last mile" -- the connection between public transit stations and passengers' final destinations -- gets a new link April 22, when Fort Worth Bike Sharing comes to town with 300 red three-speed cruisers...
Read On St. Louis: Streetcars Could Go From Downtown West StL. Post Dispatch
Downtown St. Louis boosters envision the construction of a seven-mile streetcar system as a catalyst for…
The "last mile" -- the connection between public transit stations and passengers' final destinations -- gets a new link April 22, when Fort Worth Bike Sharing comes to town with 300 red three-speed cruisers...
Read On St. Louis: Streetcars Could Go From Downtown West StL. Post Dispatch
Downtown St. Louis boosters envision the construction of a seven-mile streetcar system as a catalyst for…
News: Ice Fog Danger, Road & Transit Tax Hikes, New Orleans Transit & Redevelopment, Church Vs. Rail Line, Urban Immobility & Identity
January 25, 2013
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Salt Lake City: Particulate Laced Ice Fog A Danger
MSNBC
Michelle Francis keeps one eye on Utah's air quality index and the other on her 9-year-old daughter's chronic asthma these days...
Read On National: Metro's Expansion Plans Include New Tunnels Transportation Nation
Metro transit agency officials are proposing new tunnels to help the…
Michelle Francis keeps one eye on Utah's air quality index and the other on her 9-year-old daughter's chronic asthma these days...
Read On National: Metro's Expansion Plans Include New Tunnels Transportation Nation
Metro transit agency officials are proposing new tunnels to help the…
Blogosphere: Amsterdam Bike History, Transit Rider Unions, Transpo & Health Connection, Economic Inequality In Cities
October 30, 2012
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Blogosphere: Why You Should Vote Yes on Measure J
LA Streetsblog
Los Angeles County is darn big and densely populated, a complex conglomeration of neighborhoods, multi-centered, and with complicated commute patterns. It's hard to believe policy and funding still prioritizes cars when it seems so obvious we need to make every other kind of transport easy and safe...
Read On Blogosphere: Why the Dutch Went Bicycle Greater Greater…
Los Angeles County is darn big and densely populated, a complex conglomeration of neighborhoods, multi-centered, and with complicated commute patterns. It's hard to believe policy and funding still prioritizes cars when it seems so obvious we need to make every other kind of transport easy and safe...
Read On Blogosphere: Why the Dutch Went Bicycle Greater Greater…
Blogosphere: DC Streetcar Task Force, Rio BRT, H+T Expense > Income, Urban Farms, Taxes & TOD Gentrification
October 19, 2012
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Blogosphere: Mayor Announces Streetcar Task Force
DCist
With Trinidadsome nearby residents playing the historic-preservation card to delay or entirely avert the creation of a car barn for the planned streetcar system at Spingarn Senior High School, Mayor Vince Gray today announced the D.C. government's favorite bureaucratic move to study the future of new transportation system...
Read On Blogosphere: BTS Marks 20 Years of Data Service DOT Fastlane
Transportation statistics and the…
With Trinidadsome nearby residents playing the historic-preservation card to delay or entirely avert the creation of a car barn for the planned streetcar system at Spingarn Senior High School, Mayor Vince Gray today announced the D.C. government's favorite bureaucratic move to study the future of new transportation system...
Read On Blogosphere: BTS Marks 20 Years of Data Service DOT Fastlane
Transportation statistics and the…
News: Hawaii BRT Alternative, Buses As Wannabe Trains, Beavers Vs. Human Engineers, Rio Slum's Olympic Facelift, Downtown Pop Growth
September 28, 2012
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Louisville: Does City Need More Highways?
New York Times
More and more Americans, educated 20-somethings and empty nesters among them, want to live downtown. Plenty of downtowns are coming back; many are thriving. Even so, we remain a nation in thrall to suburbs, highways, cars...
Read On Hawaii: Mayoral Candidate Releases BRT Alternative Honolulu…
More and more Americans, educated 20-somethings and empty nesters among them, want to live downtown. Plenty of downtowns are coming back; many are thriving. Even so, we remain a nation in thrall to suburbs, highways, cars...
Read On Hawaii: Mayoral Candidate Releases BRT Alternative Honolulu…
News: Swiss LRT Lessons, Texas HSR, Miwaukee Streetcar Plans, Detroit Rapid Bus, Unfinished Fed Transpo Work
July 23, 2012
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Salt Lake City: Lawmakers to Study LRT in Switzerland
Salt Lake Tribune
Four Utah legislators and five officials of the Utah Transit Authority just returned from a five-day trip to Switzerland to learn about light-rail transportation to and around ski resorts...
Read On Houston: Texas HSR Gains Momentum Impact News
Plans for a high-speed rail line connecting Houston with the Dallas-Fort…
Four Utah legislators and five officials of the Utah Transit Authority just returned from a five-day trip to Switzerland to learn about light-rail transportation to and around ski resorts...
Read On Houston: Texas HSR Gains Momentum Impact News
Plans for a high-speed rail line connecting Houston with the Dallas-Fort…
Blogosphere: CAHSR Funding Move, Dallas Highway Toll, France's Tramways, Rio's First BRT Corridor, Urban Lunch
June 25, 2012
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Blogosphere: State Senate May Try to Move HSR Funds
CAHSR Blog
The LA Times' Ralph Vartabedian reports that anti-HSR State Senators may try to move the HSR funds out of the Central Valley, even though the current HSR proposal includes billions in funds for both the Bay Area and Southern California in addition to starting HSR construction in the Valley:..
Read On Blogosphere: What If Our Problem is Too Many Cars? Dallas Morning News…
The LA Times' Ralph Vartabedian reports that anti-HSR State Senators may try to move the HSR funds out of the Central Valley, even though the current HSR proposal includes billions in funds for both the Bay Area and Southern California in addition to starting HSR construction in the Valley:..
Read On Blogosphere: What If Our Problem is Too Many Cars? Dallas Morning News…
Blogosphere: Calif. Parking Fight, Transit Network Primers, Car Sharing Economics, Bike Sharing Savings, Inclusionary Zoning
June 20, 2012
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California: Shoup Rips California APA on Parking
Streetsblog LA
"Donald Shoup is an academic authority on parking and its effects on transportation, land use, cities, the economy, and the environment," said the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2004 when it inducted Professor Shoup as a Fellow, the highest honor of the American Planning Association (APA)...
Read On Blogosphere: Can…
"Donald Shoup is an academic authority on parking and its effects on transportation, land use, cities, the economy, and the environment," said the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2004 when it inducted Professor Shoup as a Fellow, the highest honor of the American Planning Association (APA)...
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News: Neglected SF Transit Maintenance, Paris City Gardens App, Modernizing Caltrain, Louisiana Super Region
June 14, 2012
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San Francisco: Agency Has Neglected Maintenance
SF Weekly
In early 2011, Dorian Maxwell decided he'd rather not set foot on a Muni bus. That's a decision thousands of fellow San Franciscans make every day - but in Maxwell's case, it loomed larger. He was a bus driver...
Read On National: City Gardens App Finds Green Space Fast Company (via @walkanomics)
Paris is a city of more than 400 gardens, and CityGardens is a smartphone app born from a walk in…
In early 2011, Dorian Maxwell decided he'd rather not set foot on a Muni bus. That's a decision thousands of fellow San Franciscans make every day - but in Maxwell's case, it loomed larger. He was a bus driver...
Read On National: City Gardens App Finds Green Space Fast Company (via @walkanomics)
Paris is a city of more than 400 gardens, and CityGardens is a smartphone app born from a walk in…
