Blogosphere: Transit Funding, Driverless Cars, Acela HSR Example, Sustainable Cities On Rise, Cities In Middle Ages
August 17, 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: Everything About Transit Funding DC Streetsblog Transit agencies can have a hard time finding the money to expand rail lines and busways. While federal grants for road projects require a 20 percent local match, transit projects need to get 50 percent or more from local funding sources. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Will Driverless Cars Abolish Buses? Human Transit Your recent [Atlantic article] regarding "bus stigma", along with the concurrent proliferation of various autonomous car posts that I've seen all over the web, got me thinking:... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Crashes are Not Accidents Pittsburgh Post Gazette Here's a treatise on what to call traffic collisions; the author suggests that "accident" is inappropriate, "crash" is better. - The word "accident" implies no fault. It's what we call it when a toddler makes a small mess... Read On |
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Commentary: Acela Defies CAHSR Naysayers Los Angeles Times California's bullet train is appropriately named -- not because it will ever be as fast as a speeding bullet but because it has taken more potshots than a Montana stop sign... Read On |
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Blogosphere: LaTourette Leaving Hill, Cites Trans Bill DC Streetsblog We mentioned last week that transit advocates were losing one supporter in Congress: Russ Carnahan of Missouri. They'll be suffering another grave loss come January: Ohio Republican Steve LaTourette... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tappan Zee Transit Agreement Reached Mobilizing the Region Today in Sleepy Hollow, County Executives Astorino, Vanderhoef, and Odell announced a mass transit agreement for the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project, along with their plans to vote in favor of the project at next month's NYMTC meeting.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Map by Navigation or Legibility? Planetizen Fanis Grammenos returns to the subject of urban form, this time to interrogate the connection between legibility and navigation. In this essay, he considers whether an orthogonal city layout aligned with the cardinal directions is a necessary condition for easy city navigation... Read On |
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Commentary: Abolish the London Mayor Position Guardian UK (via @nate_berg) "The government needs to stop pussyfooting around" warned Boris Johnson yesterday as he made his latest pitch for a third runway at Heathrow... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Housing Injustice in Madrid The Polis Blog In 2007, Spain had 551 houses for every 1000 inhabitants, more than France (508) and Germany (485), according to data published by CF+S... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Three Sustainable Cities on the Rise This Big City The green living lifestyle skyrocketed in the last decade and became a social injection of epic proportions. In no time shoes were being made from bamboo, college towns were turned into tiny Vespa cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities in the Middle Ages Urban Times Successful public spaces have been essential parts of our cities and communities for centuries. It is there where we hold celebrations, where social interactions take place, where we find and gather with our friends, where we exchange ideas, where we express ourselves, where we rest and observe, and where we find the public institutions of cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: California's Anti-Carbon Legislation (AB32) Environmental and Urban Economics The Sacramento Bee has published an opinion piece that I wrote with Bo Cutter. We argue that California's AB32 (the legislation intended to sharply reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions) is off to a good start... Read On |
