Blogosphere: Transpo Bill Comparison, Road Project Funding, SF's Wiggle, US Passenger Rail, Privatizing Transit, Cleveland's Brain Gain, Rural Urbanism
March 16, 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: Compare the Senate and House Bills DC Streetsblog Now that the Senate has passed a transportation bill and everyone's waiting to see what the House will do next, Transportation for America has done us all a great service and compared the Senate's bill to the House's... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Senate's Transportation Program The Transport Politic The U.S. Senate's passage of a transportation reauthorization bill Wednesday was big news, if only because it has now been 898 days since the last transportation bill officially expired... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Road Projects Funded by Transit Budgets Pedestrian Observations One third of the MBTA's outstanding debt, about $1.7 billion, comes from transit projects built by the state as part of a court-imposed mitigation for extra Big Dig traffic; interest on this debt is about two-thirds the agency's total present deficit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: 60's Proposal Tied to Fallout Shelters The Source It's a simple idea: Connect the jobs-rich and traffic-choked Westside of Los Angeles County to downtown L.A., the heart of the region's economy and public transit network... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Local LA Reaction Positive to Bill LA Streetsblog Yesterday, the United States Senate passed a two-year extension of federal legislation that allows the federal government to fund transportation projects throughout the United States. While the legislation still needs to be passed by the House of Representatives before being signed by the President.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: A History of SF's Wiggle Bay Nature (via @curbedSF) If you ride your bike in San Francisco, chances are you have discovered The Wiggle, and you're probably thankful you did. The meandering one-mile route from Duboce Ave to Fell St. saves cyclists from notoriously steep hills as they make their way from downtown to western neighborhoods... Read On |
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Blogosphere: US Poised for Passenger Rail Forbes Of planes, trains, and automobiles, only one can accommodate America's growing need for urban and intercity transportation, according to a panel of transportation officials who gathered in Chicago Wednesday... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Saving Transit By Privatizing? The Atlantic Cities When a city's transit agency gets into funding trouble, it's easy to call on the private sector to whip things into cost-efficient shape. Of course, actually running a private urban transit company... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mark Gorton - Rethinking the Auto Streetfilms For more than 100 years New York City government policy has prioritized the needs of the automobile over the needs of any other mode of transport. Working under the faulty assumption that more car traffic would improve business.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Genius of Car Free Zones The Urban Times Pedestrian-only zones are lovely. There is something liberating about walking in an area devoid of automobile traffic. There is something secure in knowing that competition with cars for space will not lead to a painful conclusion... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Subway Concrete Factory English Russia Pokrov Plant of Concrete Goods produces concrete goods for Mosmetrostroy, a subway-building company, industrial engineering and housing construction... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A New Target for Patent Trolls - Cities Ars Technica Patent holders will file a lawsuit about anything under the sun these days, but a man named Martin Jones has embraced an alarming new strategy-suing cash-strapped American cities over their bus-tracking systems. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Nascent Brain Gain in Cleveland's Core Rust Wire Cleveland isn't dying. The city is already dead. You may have read one of a number of obituaries written about Cleveland after the 2010 Census put the final nail in the coffin for a place most famous for a river catching fire... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Answer to Gentrification More Density? City Tank In case you missed it, a Seattle woman married a building last month. The union was between Ms. Babylonia Aivaz and a 107-year-old warehouse on Capitol Hill at the corner of 10th and Union... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Secret to Memphis'Blues District Success The Atlantic Cities In New Orleans and Kansas City and Memphis and Chicago and Los Angeles and New York, jazz and blues emerged from the fertile soil of vice: drinking, gambling, prostitution and general lawlessness... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Navigating the Neutral Ground Metropolis Magazine I live on St. Charles Avenue, home to the famous New Orleans streetcar line. It's home also (in addition to some insanely impressive houses) to one of the most unique urban spaces in America... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rural Urbanism Price Tags It's about business, but not business-as-usual. It's about cities, but not the big ones. It's about people. What kind of people? The artists, changemakers, and entrepreneurs redefining our physical space:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Metro Job Recovery in 2011 The Urbanophile The latest BLS release for metro area unemployment has full year averages for 2011 available, so we can see which cities added the most jobs last year. On the whole, it was a much better year for metros than we've seen in the recent past... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Madison Cultural Plan Gets it Wrong Isthmus Anne Katz modestly describes Madison's long-pondered cultural plan as "a beginning point" for giving the arts a more prominent role in Madison life. .. Read On |
