News: Transit Rider Coalition, Private LRT In Detroit, TIGER 2012 Grants, Atlanta To Jacksonville HSR, Healthy Cities Programs
June 25, 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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Tampa: Groups Look to Rally for Transit Coalition Tampa Tribune A nationwide movement is under way to build coalitions of transit riders who confront the same dilemma local bus agencies face: Ridership is at record levels but a decline in government funding is forcing cuts in service... Read On |
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Detroit: M1 Rail Looks for Private Operator Crain's Detroit Organizers of the $137 million streetcar plan for Detroit's Woodward Avenue are assembling a list of private-sector companies to operate the system on a concession basis... Read On |
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Charlotte: Streetcar Boosters Rally in Support Charlotte Observer With the fate of a $119 million streetcar extension likely to be decided Monday, supporters said Thursday that the streetcar would spark new residential and retail development and provide a much-needed rail link between Johnson C. Smith University and uptown... Read On |
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National: TIGER Funds Announced Transportation Nation Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is on a conference call right now talking to reporters about the latest round of TIGER grants. Here's a press release describing some of them. Click here to see a map of their distribution around the country... Read On |
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Phoenix: Council Approves Accelerated Construction Arizona Republic The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday approved an acceleration plan for the leg of Metro light rail that would extend the northwestern end of the line and get it running seven years earlier than expected... Read On |
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Jacksonville: HSR from ATL to JAX Feasible Says Report Florida Times Union Running high-speed, passenger rail lines between Atlanta and Jacksonville, Louisville and Birmingham is economically feasible, according to a consultant's study presented Wednesday to the State Transportation Board... Read On |
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Buffalo: Downtown Medical School Tied to Subway Buffalo News In only a few years, thousands of commuters headed to jobs and classes will arrive daily at a redesigned Metro Rail station serving as a hub for the new University at Buffalo medical school and a teeming Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus... Read On |
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Research: A Review of European Healthy Cities Program Journal of Urban Health The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the progress made by European cities in relation to Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) during Phase IV of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities programme (2003-2008)... Read On |
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Sacramento: Should Developers Focus on Infill? Sacramento Bee Blame it on Ozzie and Harriet, or Hollywood, but California's culture seems inextricably bound up with the boundless American dream of suburbia... Read On |
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National: The New Key to Success, Moving Home Salon After nine years in Brooklyn, N.Y., Emily Farris, Midwestern cuisine queen, decided she was sick of baking tuna casseroles in a kitchen that was also a hallway. "I was sharing a tiny apartment... Read On |
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Research: Property Values in NJ Near Transit TRB TRIS Since 1999 New Jersey has designated 23 Transit Villages in municipalities around the state with the intention of intensifying development around rail stations and bus hubs. As one test of the effectiveness of this state-effort, the appreciation in residential property values is investigated, compared to other municipalities within the state... Read On |
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International: Cities Don't Have Creativity Monopoly Irish Times WHEN JONATHAN Raban warned that the West was "in the middle of a furious conflict between the city and the country, in part a class war, in part a generational one," he could have been talking about a lake in Connemara or a south Galway bog... Read On |
