News: NYC Bike Share, Virtual Twin Cities LRT Tour, Tucson TOD, Privatizing Moscow Metro, Cincinnati Form Based Codes
May 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. The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom. |
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New York: 42 Bike Share Docks for Lower Manhattan Transportation Nation The New York City Department of Transportation continues to show community boards in Brooklyn and Manhattan where it's planning to install Bike Share stations in those boroughs... Read On |
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Minneapolis: Virtual Tour of SW LRT Twin Cities Finance and Commerce The proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit line for the Twin Cities has been hard to visualize. Preliminary plans for the alignment don't run along one particular street - unlike the current Hiawatha line or the future Central Corridor LRT... Read On |
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Tucson: Planning May Promote Infill, Benefit Streetcar Inside Tucson Business With workers busy laying tracks for the newly christened Sun Link modern streetcar project, some of the efforts to promote development along the line have begun to pan out... Read On |
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International: Moscow Ponders Privatizing Metro Moscow Times City Hall is considering privatizing the Moscow metro system as a step toward developing the capital's infrastructure, the Moscow government said in a new strategy document... Read On |
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Cincinnati: City Betting on New Form Based Code Cincinnati Enquirer Almost twice as many people lived in Cincinnati 60 years ago. But then cars made it easier to get things farther from home and families elected to move to quieter, more spacious and sometimes safer suburbs. Longtime residents passed away, and their children chose not to stay... Read On |
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N Kentucky: $10M for Catalytic Development Fund Business Journals (Paywall) Northern Kentucky's first-ever development fund has raised $10 million and will begin financing projects in the region's urban core before year's end... Read On |
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International: China Ups Energy Efficient Buildings Reuters China wants energy-efficient buildings to account for 30 percent of all new construction projects by 2020 to bring its building energy consumption ratio closer to that of developed countries, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday... Read On |
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New Jersey: State Opens Urban Beach in Jersey City New Jersey Statehouse Bureau Gov. Chris Christie and U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on Thursday afternoon officially opened a 4-acre "urban beach" in the Jersey City development of Newport, overlooking the Hudson River... Read On |
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Bay Area: Saltworks Project Gets Scaled Back San Jose Mercury News The developer of the controversial Redwood City Saltworks project announced Thursday it will submit a revised plan that offers considerably more wetlands restoration than the original one... Read On |
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Virginia: Upgrades Divisive for Tyson's Landowners Washington Post Private-sector executives are sometimes known to grumble about government tax policies that amount to a bureaucratic maze. Why can't the government just create a straightforward system, they wonder? And why does every decision take so darn long?.. Read On |
