News: NY MTA Financing, San Diego BRT Debate, Colorado Fastracks Audit, Dense California Cities, Climate Change & Poor Countries
March 28, 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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New York: MTA Financing Shored Up New York Times New York State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have reached an agreement to finance the remaining three years of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five-year capital plan, preserving some of the region's largest transportation projects, transportation officials said Monday. .. Read On |
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National: Dems Trip Up GOP on Extension Transportation Nation For the second straight day, House Democrats have foiled an attempt by Republicans to pass a temporary Highway Bill extension designed to avoid a suspension of the gas tax and a shutdown of highway programs March 31... Read On |
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San Diego: Rapid Bus Running into Opposition San Diego Union Tribune A plan to run a new form of rapid transit - touted as a trolley on wheels - along Broadway in downtown San Diego by 2014 has ignited a debate about the future of the busy central corridor... Read On |
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Denver: Colorado Lawmaker to Urge Fastracks Audit Denver Post A Colorado lawmaker says he will ask for an audit of the Regional Transportation District's FasTracks program today, citing faulty planning for the Northwest Rail project... Read On |
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Denver: Hybrid Plan Gets RTD Approval for Northeast Denver Post The Regional Transportation District board on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to build a hybrid transportation system - part commuter rail and part bus lines - to the northwest corridor from Denver to Longmont instead of the full rail system voters were promised in 2004... Read On |
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Fort Worth: TEX Rail Gets into FTA Pipeline Fort Worth Star Telegram Supporters of a proposed commuter rail line from southwest Fort Worth to Grapevine and Dallas Fort Worth Airport say the project is a huge step closer to reality after a federal agency gave its blessing for preliminary engineering and design to begin... Read On |
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National: House Delays 60 Day Extension DC Streetsblog It's like Congressional Whack-a-Mole: Transportation bills pop up just long enough to offer a fleeting glimpse before they retract back into oblivion. Yesterday's vote on a 90-day extension of federal transportation funding was pulled at the last second, then replaced by a vote today on a 60-day extension. .. Read On |
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National: Boxer Says House Coming Around DC Streetsblog Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that Republicans in the House were "coming to our point of view" on the idea of passing the transportation bill that was passed by the Senate... Read On |
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Charlotte: Lynx Extension at $1.6B Charlotte Observer A 9.4-mile light-rail extension should open for service by March 2017, and the Charlotte Area Transit System said Monday it has a firm price for the project: $1.16 billion... Read On |
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International: Inquiry to Look at Rail Corridors Sydney Morning Herald THE state government should consider creating a special authority to facilitate redevelopment around Sydney's train stations and railway lines for things such as new apartments and shopping centres, says the state's top transport official... Read On |
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Orlando: Next Bubble Could Be Apartment Complexes Orlando Sentinel The comment that drew the most attention at a recent meeting of developers at Leu Gardens in Orlando was: "We always overbuild something. This time will probably be multifamily.".. Read On |
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California: Cali Cities Most Densely Populated San Francisco Chronicle California is home to the rugged Sierra Nevada, bucolic vineyards, wave-stroked beaches - and the most densely urbanized areas in the nation... Read On |
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Research: Fiscal Policies and Non Metro Performance Papers in Regional Science Faced with declining economic bases, many non-metropolitan areas find themselves balancing the need to be cost-competitive in terms of lower taxes against the need for provision of valued government services... Read On |
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International: Cities Key to Coping With Population International Business Times Cities are expected to expand the combined size of Texas, California and Montana in the next 20 years, adding environmental and cultural strains from population growth and shifts away from rural living, experts said Tuesday at a conference in London called "Planet Under Pressure.".. Read On |
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International: Climate Change Threatens Poor Cities Reuters Foundation India, like other Asian countries, has focused its climate change adaptation strategies on rural and urban areas while neglecting the urban fringes, say experts... Read On |
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Salt Lake: How to Handle 67% Population Growth Salt Lake Tribune The Wasatch Front is expected to grow by 1.4 million people over the next 30 years. So hundreds of officials from governments, businesses, universities and nonprofit groups gathered Tuesday to further implement plans on how to handle that growth while maintaining a high quality of life... Read On |
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International: Long and Winding Road to Planning Guardian UK The final redraft of last year's cowboy raid by lobbyists on English town and country planning suggests that the Tories have narrowly rescued themselves from becoming not so much the nasty party as the ugly one... Read On |
