News: Tumlin On Congrestion, Houston Transit Funding Vote, Faster HSR, LA LRT Pushes West, Value Capture Research
April 27, 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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Ottawa: Jeff Tumlin on Congestion Ottawa Citizen It's hard to overstate how much fun Jeffrey Tumlin is to listen to. The California-based consultant on transit-oriented development gave an afternoon talk, a snappy one with an actually worthwhile set of slides, on fighting congestion on roads... Read On |
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Houston: Residents Will Vote on Transit Funding Houston Chronicle The Metropolitan Transit Authority is preparing for a referendum, likely to be on the November ballot, asking voters to decide whether to put millions more of their sales tax dollars toward transit or continue diverting part of it for road projects in their cities and Harris County... Read On |
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National: Lawmakers Want 125 MPH Trains, Not 110 The Hill A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is calling for the panel of lawmakers tapped to negotiate an agreement on a new federal transportation bill to remove a provision dealing with high-speed rail from the Senate's version of the measure.. Read On |
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Virginia: Arlington Backing Out of Transit Funding Deal Transportation Nation Leaders in Arlington County and the City of Alexandria in the Washington, DC suburbs are moving in different directions along a high-capacity transit corridor on U.S. Route 1, and it's causing some tension among lawmakers in Alexandria... Read On |
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Los Angeles: Expo Opening a Push for the West Side Los Angeles Times Trains begin running Saturday on the first segment. USC, with three nearby stops, is seen as a big beneficiary. The line is expected to carry riders to Culver City this summer and to Santa Monica in a few years... Read On |
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Los Angeles: Subway Extension Runs into Roadblock Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County transportation officials set the stage Thursday for a showdown with Beverly Hills leaders over a small portion of the much-anticipated Westside subway extension... Read On |
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Research: Special Value Capture Edition Journal of Transport and Land Use (Full) The value capture potential of the Lisbon Subway Joint Development as a Value Capture Strategy in Transportation Finance Rail integrated communities in Tokyo Economic and equity effects of transportation utility fees Financing transportation with land value taxes: Effects on development intensity Read On |
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Cincinnati: Former Council Member's Streetcar Land Cincinnati Enquirer It seems former Cincinnati City Councilman and "Mr. Cincinnati" Jim Tarbell still keeps tabs on what the city is up to. Hamilton County property records show he recently spent $255,000 for two Jackson Street buildings - right near one of the proposed streetcar stops... Read On |
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Research: Gentrification with Justice Urban Studies Journal (Abstract) Scholars and policy-makers have increasingly sought to understand the relationship between poverty and place in the inner city. This paper examines the spatiality of an anti-poverty strategy called 'gentrification with justice'.. Read On |
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Research: Shopping Centers, Centripetal v Centrifugal Urban Studies Journal (Abstract) In support of the call for international comparative analysis of commercial structure due to globalisation of commercial services, this study investigates the locational dynamics of shopping centres in Denver, USA, and Brisbane, Australia... Read On |
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New Jersey: Harrison's TOD Development Efforts New Jersey Journal Harrison is moving forward with its redevelopment efforts by amending a plan adopted in 2003 to transform 250 acres of former industrial sites into a transit hub with residences, entertainment, hotels and other commercial uses... Read On |
