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Transport: FT. Lauderdale Streetcar Tax, San Antonio Streetcar Routes, Explaining Bike Hatred, Sen. Frank Lautenberg

June 4, 2013
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TRANSPORT Downtown Taxes Considered for Fort Lauderdale Streetcars  Sun Sentinel   With federal, state and local government contributions already lined up for the city's proposed Wave streetcar system, all that's left to determine is which downtown businesses and residents will also have to contribute and how much they will pay.
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Urban Issues: Controlling Beijing Home Prices, London's Expensive Housing, Small Units & Housing Costs

June 4, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Beijing Caps Home Prices to Control Demand  Bloomberg   Beijing, which already has China's strictest real estate curbs, is being forced to take additional steps to contain surging home prices as demands for record-high down payments fail to deter buyers.
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Transport: Moscow Bike Sharing, NJ Amtrak Tunnel Funds, Citi Bike Popularity, Nashville BRT Push, CAHSR Trial Starts

June 3, 2013
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TRANSPORT Moscow Tries Bike Sharing  New Yorker   "It's not easy to ride a bike in Moscow," cautioned Alexey Mityaev, the floppy-haired, jeans-wearing twenty-seven-year-old adviser to the head of the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development, as we headed out on a test run of the city bike-share program that just launched in the Russian capital.
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Transport: House T&I Changes, Charlotte Streetcar OK, $34B Toronto Transit Strategy, Peru Aerial Tram Plans

May 29, 2013
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TRANSPORT New Leadership Soon on the T&I Committee  Transportation Issues Daily   It is very likely that there will be changes in subcommittee leadership on the House Transportation Committee in July.
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Enviroment & Ecology: Energy Generation Walking, Indoor Microbial Census, Breathing On The Subway, UK Wildlife In Trouble

May 28, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Walking Could Produce Energy via Shoes  Giant Freakin Robot   There's no better power than people power! A team of engineering students at Rice University in Houston, Texas have invented a shoe that can harness the energy of everyday walking to, theoretically, power small devices such as cell phones or mp3 players.
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Transport: Rhode Island Bus Reorganization, HOT Lanes & Commute Time, Minneapolis Value Capture District

May 22, 2013
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Austin, Bay Area, bicycles, bus, Calcutta, California, Czech Republic, Federal Policy, FTA, Heavy Rail, Highways & Automobiles, Hoboken, India, Light Rail, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, New York State, Parking, Performance, Prague, Rhode Island, San Francisco, State Policy, Streetcar, Texas, tracks, Tracks Transport, Transit, Transit Funding, Value Capture
TRANSPORT RIPTA to Reorganize Half of Its Bus Routes  Providence Journal   The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is preparing an unprecedented reorganization of its routes and schedules, affecting about half of its 56 fixed bus routes.
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Urban Issues: Vision For Richmond's Future, Vancouver Embracing Accessory Units, Traffic Cones, New Google Maps

May 16, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A Grand Vision for Richmond's Future  Bacon's Rebellion   By 2035 the Richmond region will grow by roughly 200,000 households (435,000 people) and 200,000 new jobs. That's a mind-numbing number for a metropolitan region with barely more than 1 million inhabitants today.
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Urban Issues: 'Aspiring' To Gentrification, Merging City-County Econ Dev Agency, Calif. Struggling Cities, Developers Don't Innovate

May 16, 2013
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Affordability, Bay Area, California, Demographics, Development & Redevelopment, Heavy Rail, housing, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Missouri, North Carolina, Raleigh, San Francisco, St. Louis, State Policy, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Zoning & Coding
URBAN ISSUES Cities Don't "Aspire" to Gentrification  Better Institutions   In a recent article posted on New Geography, Aaron M. Renn asks what seems to be a fairly straightforward question: "Why Gentrification?" But unlike most writing on the subject, the question isn't why it happens or how to avoid it, but why cities aspire to it.
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Transport: Shanghai Monorail, Megabus 25M Rides, Making City Bike-Friendly, BRT In China, Bottineau LRT OK'd

May 10, 2013
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TRANSPORT Shanghai Thinking Monorail  China Daily   Shanghai is likely to introduce the country's first suspended monorail train by 2015 to improve the city's worsening traffic congestion and pollution levels.
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Environment & Ecology: LA Port Rail Yard OK'd, Saving The Salton Sea, Time Lapse Images Show Sprawl & Climate Change

May 10, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Controversial LA Port Rail Yard Wins Approval  Governing   The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a controversial rail yard serving the harbor, setting the stage for possible court challenges alleging violations of environmental and civil rights laws.
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