News: CAHSR Questions, Evaluating BRT, Mass Transit Crisis, Texas Wins In Fed Transpo Bill, Positive Gentrification
July 6, 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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National: Unclear Whether Feds Will Stick with CAHSR Kansas City Star The California state legislators who will vote by Friday on a high-speed rail program are leaning on a potentially unreliable federal government... Read On |
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International: Efficiency Questions for SA BRT Engineering News Johannesburg has one and so does Cape Town. Port Elizabeth almost had one, Rustenburg is planning one, and Tshwane may finally roll out one after a delay of several years... Read On |
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National: The Looming Crisis for Mass Transit Saturday Evening Post Over the past 50 years America made massive public investments in its highways-hundreds of billions of dollars in the interstate system alone. And largely because of that investment, cities and suburbs have grown into sprawling, disconnected clusters, largely dependent on the automobile... Read On |
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California: HSR Could Pass, Hinges on Caltrain Santa Cruz Sentinel California lawmakers will finally vote Friday on the plan to start building the state's high-speed rail project, and in a surprise twist, money for the polarizing bullet train will be tied to a deal that would save the popular Caltrain commuter service... Read On |
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Texas: Bill Good for Texas Highways Bond Buyer Congress' passage of the $101.3 billion highway bill will advance Texas' development of the Interstate 69 project to route cargo and passenger traffic from the Rio Grande border with Mexico northward to major Texas seaports and beyond, officials said... Read On |
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California: Assembly Approves HSR, Now to Senate San Jose Mercury News The California Assembly on Thursday approved legislation that would authorize the state to begin selling about $4.5 billion in state bonds for the nation's first high-speed rail system, taking an initial step toward the ambitious $68 billion project that Gov. Jerry Brown hopes will be a part of his legacy... Read On |
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Twin Cities: LRT Planners Seek to Engage Developers Twin Cities Finance and Commerce Local officials have spent years preparing for the arrival of the Southwest Light Rail Transit line, but as planning becomes more serious, they want to bring one more voice into the conversation: developers... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The End of Taxis The Atlantic Cities Confession time: Ever since we launched Cities last fall, I've ended up taking a taxi to work in the morning more often than is really prudent for my household budget. The offices for The Atlantic happen to be situated in one of the least transit-friendly spots in Washington, D.C. and, you know, sometimes I'm in a hurry... Read On |
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Research: Geography of Foreclosure in Bay Area Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Abstract) Communities on the fringes of the American metropolis have recently garnered attention as the centers of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath. On the one hand, this attention to the urban nature of the crisis is welcome.. Read On |
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Research: Positive Gentrification Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Abstract) Public policies supporting market-oriented strategies to develop mixed-income communities have become ascendant in the United States and a number of other countries around the world... Read On |
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Research: Housing and Health: Dialogue and Action Change Lab Solutions How does housing affect health? Housing quality, affordability, and neighborhood design all play a critical role in supporting - or undercutting - residents' health. .. Read On |
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Dallas: Development in the Works on Green Line Dallas Morning News Commuters riding DART's Green Line have watched for months as work crews build the first apartments next to downtown Carrollton's transit center. And in just weeks, the tenants will start arriving at the 179-unit project on Main Street south of Belt Line Road... Read On |
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Detroit: New Farm Plan Taking Root Wall Street Journal Three years ago, financial-services entrepreneur John Hantz proposed converting as much as 10,000 acres of vacant private and city-owned property here into the world's largest for-profit urban farm, restoring swaths of land to the tax rolls and changing the face of Detroit's blighted East Side... Read On |
