News: Toronto Vs. Los Angeles, Privatizing Transpo, Pollution Credit HSR Funding, Las Vegas HSR, Slower Muni Bus Service
April 2, 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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Toronto: While Toronto Fights, LA Builds Globe and Mail Denny Zane can pinpoint the moment when the famously heavy traffic in Los Angeles changed from slushy to solid. It was the summer of 2007, and the back-ups on the I-10, through the city's west side, snaked back over 20 kilometres and reappeared day after day after day, with no obvious cause... Read On |
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National: Are States Making a Mistake by Privatizing? Washington Post Say you're a state politician. Your local roads, bridges, and transit systems are all in dire need of upgrades. But there's not much money left. Budgets are crunched. No one wants to raise taxes... Read On |
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California: Pollution Credits Could Fund HSR Sacramento Bee A new financing strategy is a centerpiece of a revised business plan that state leaders will unveil Monday in Fresno for the proposed high-speed train system. Rather than relying on the uncertainty of future federal transportation funds, money from the auction of air-pollution credits.. Read On |
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Cincinnati: Development Near and Dear Cincinnati Enquirer Some children want to grow up to be astronauts or teachers or professional athletes. Growing up in Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s, Odis Jones wanted to create jobs and provide opportunities to communities like his... Read On |
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Twin Cities: Cedar Busway Hits Station Snag Minneapolis Star Tribune The road construction is on track. The new buses have been ordered. But a dispute over station design -- and who can get it done as quickly as possible -- is evidence of the time crunch facing Dakota County as the scheduled November launch of the Cedar Avenue busway approaches.. Read On |
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National: Train to Vegas Stirs Controversy USA Today On a dusty, rock-strewn expanse at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a company linked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to build a bullet train that would rocket tourists from the middle of nowhere to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas... Read On |
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Pittsburgh: North Shore Connector is a Transit Boost Pittsburgh Post Gazette For a while, there was a joke making the rounds about the North Shore Connector being a train ride to nowhere. Now that it has opened after almost six years of construction, it's time to retire that cynical notion... Read On |
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San Francisco: 100 Years Later, Muni Runs Slower Bay Citizen The San Francisco Muni is turning 100 this year. And in that century of great technological progress, in which an aircraft broke the sound barrier in 1947 and a supersonic car did the same in 1997, Muni has actually become slower... Read On |
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Sacramento: Lawmakers Skeptical About HSR Revision Sacramento Bee California lawmakers expressed skepticism Saturday about the timing and magnitude of Gov. Jerry Brown's high-speed rail revision, saying it may take longer than the governor wants to sort through the numbers... Read On |
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Research: Urban Renewal in Barcelona and Seoul Asia Europe Journal Cities have become increasingly autonomous economic and political actors which actively respond to the pressures and opportunities of globalisation. Consequently, the urban management of any particular city is often based on the assumption that the city can improve its position against rival cities... Read On |
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Chicago: Old Fashioned Design for the Long Run Chicago Tribune Jon and Stephanie Sundock enjoy living in the past. "We like the old-town style here," said Jon Sundock of the couple's house in Rosemary Beach, a master-planned housing development on Florida's Panhandle... Read On |
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New York: The Midtown Alternative for Pedestrians New York Times First came the bike lanes, creeping like overgrown ivy across the city streetscape.Then there were the open-air pedestrian plazas, sprouting from the concrete in hubs like Times Square and Union Square to make the insufferable clamor of crosstown traffic a little less so... Read On |
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International: City Planning at Watershed Point Brisbane Times Government planning systems in southeast Queensland are too focused on infrastructure at the expense of demographic change, future productivity and global competitiveness, according to an expert panel... Read On |
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International: IKEA's Urban Planning Project The Globe and Mail There are feelings you get when you enter an Ikea store. The vertiginous experience of getting lost in their craftily designed labyrinth. The surprise of wandering into something you hadn't intended to buy... Read On |
