News: Amtrak Future, Atlanta's Beltline Project, NJ Bike Friendly Trains, All-Door Boarding Speeds Buses, Disappearing Greenspace
August 7, 2012
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| Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. |
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Q&A: Amtrak President & Inevitability Of HSR Transportation Nation Amtrak plans to build a next generation high-speed rail network along the east coast zipping business travelers from New York to Philadelphia (or D.C.) fast enough to get them to their cheesesteak power lunch in a little more than half an hour. But the $151 billion plan lacks a dedicated funding source-a source that railroad executives are asking Congress to provide at a time of hostility to big projects. So Transportation Nation's Alex Goldmark chatted with Amtrak President and CEO, Joe Boardman about the future of our nation's rail network, and the prospects for Northeast corridor bullet trains in particular.... Read On |
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Atlanta: 'We Still Have Project To Build' DC.Streetsblog The Atlanta Beltline project isn't going away. Project staff want to make that clear. Sure, last week, Atlanta turned down - by a wide margin - a major transportation spending package that would have awarded $600 million to the Beltline project. But this project - an innovative transit and trails corridor that will circle Atlanta's central city - has seen big setbacks before, says Ethan Davidson, the Beltline's spokesman.... Read On |
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New Jersey: Designating 'Bike Friendly' Weekend Trains Hunterdon County Democrat In response to customer requests regarding bike access at train stations, Transportation Commissioner and NJ Transit Board Chairman James Simpson and NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein announced the designation of selected "bike-friendly" trains on weekends and other improvements in support of the transportation needs of the cycling community.... Read On |
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San Francisco: All-Door Boarding Speeds Muni Buses SF.Streetsblog One month after the SF Municipal Transportation Agency switched to system-wide all-door boarding, an early report from the agency shows some significant increases in bus speeds.... Read On |
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Seattle: Buildings Moved To Make Way For Light Rail Progressive Railroading As part of the preparation to break ground later this month for the Link light-rail line expansion, Sound Transit crews moved eight townhomes this weekend that had been located at the site of the future Roosevelt Station.... Read On |
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National: Creating Replacement Transit App For iOS6 Trillium Solutions Blog OpenPlans has posted a Kickstarter project to create a universal mobile app for multi-modal travel planning for iOS 6. The app will use an OpenTripPlanner server to generate itineraries and directions.... Read On |
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Arizona: Tucson's Disappearing Greenspace NASA Earth Observatory The astronauts who snapped photos of Earth during the Mercury and Gemini missions produced more than just pretty pictures. They planted seeds at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA. In the mid-1960s, the director of USGS proposed a satellite program to observe our planet from above, and later described Landsat as "a direct result of the demonstrated utility of the Mercury and Gemini orbital photography to Earth resource studies."... Read On |
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Research: How Urban Parks Enhance Your Brain Atlantic Cities Last month we explained how parks can restore much of the mental fatigue imposed on our brains by the busy city. The psychological evidence for this concept, known as the "attention restoration theory," is quite clear. What would be great to know, as I noted at the end of that post, is precisely how many trees it takes to recover the cognitive strains of urban life.... Read On |
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Research: From Innovation To Commercialization Annals Of Regional Science This study claims that policy makers may not be sufficiently aware of the importance of maintaining an appropriate balance between exploration and exploitation networks for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).... Read On |
