News: LRT Track Design Handbook, Denver Commuter Rail Pressure, Guidelines For Suburban Transit, Gulf Coast Rail Considered, Court Ruling Against Hawaii Rail
August 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.
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Dallas: Bridge Plans for Streetcar Line
Dallas Morning News
Several friends of the show have been asking when the city's expecting to close down the Houston Street Bridge to make room for the downtown-to-Oak Cliff starter streetcar line...
Read On Research: TCRP R155 Track Design Handbook for LRT TCRP Online
This report provides guidelines and descriptions for the…
Several friends of the show have been asking when the city's expecting to close down the Houston Street Bridge to make room for the downtown-to-Oak Cliff starter streetcar line...
Read On Research: TCRP R155 Track Design Handbook for LRT TCRP Online
This report provides guidelines and descriptions for the…
The Looming Crisis In Mass Transit
July 6, 2012
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Reconnecting America President and CEO John Robert Smith is quoted extensively in the July / August issue of Saturday Evening Post in the article “The Looming Crisis In Mass Transit.”
News: CAHSR Questions, Evaluating BRT, Mass Transit Crisis, Texas Wins In Fed Transpo Bill, Positive Gentrification
July 6, 2012
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TRANSPORT National: Unclear Whether Feds Will Stick with CAHSR Kansas City Star
The California state legislators who will vote by Friday on a high-speed rail program are leaning on a potentially unreliable federal government...
Read On International: Efficiency Questions for SA BRT Engineering News
Johannesburg has one and so does Cape Town. Port Elizabeth almost had one, Rustenburg is planning one, and Tshwane may finally roll out one after a delay of several years...
TRANSPORT National: Unclear Whether Feds Will Stick with CAHSR Kansas City Star
The California state legislators who will vote by Friday on a high-speed rail program are leaning on a potentially unreliable federal government...
Read On International: Efficiency Questions for SA BRT Engineering News
Johannesburg has one and so does Cape Town. Port Elizabeth almost had one, Rustenburg is planning one, and Tshwane may finally roll out one after a delay of several years...
News: LA Tax Extension, Vancouver Anti-LRT, CAHSR Funding, House Transpo Bill, Seattle Monorail Tax, Bike Sharing Economics
April 19, 2012
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Los Angeles: Mayor V Wants to Extend Sales Tax
Los Angeles Times
Faced with a congressional stalemate over transportation funding, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants county voters to approve an indefinite extension of a half-cent sales tax used for transit projects...
Read On Vancouver: Anti-LRT Petitioners Fall Short Columbian
The Clark County Auditor's office has declared more than two-thirds of signatures turned in by light rail opponents seeking a vote to…
Faced with a congressional stalemate over transportation funding, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants county voters to approve an indefinite extension of a half-cent sales tax used for transit projects...
Read On Vancouver: Anti-LRT Petitioners Fall Short Columbian
The Clark County Auditor's office has declared more than two-thirds of signatures turned in by light rail opponents seeking a vote to…
Press Release: Reconnecting America to assist the Gulf Regional Planning Commission as part of Livability Solutions work
January 18, 2012
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Reconnecting America, as a partner in Livability Solutions, has been selected to provide technical assistance to the Gulf Regional Planning Commission in Gulfport, Mississippi. Reconnecting America will be working with the Gulf Regional Planning Commission to develop a typology for transit-oriented development (TOD) and to explore mixed-income TOD strategies to lower housing and transportation costs for residents of the region.
Reconnecting America to assist the Gulf Regional Planning Commission as part of Livability Solutions work
January 17, 2012
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Reconnecting America, as a partner in Livability Solutions, has been selected to provide technical assistance to the Gulf Regional Planning Commission in Gulfport, Mississippi. Reconnecting America will be working with the Gulf Regional Planning Commission to develop a typology for transit-oriented development (TOD) and to explore mixed-income TOD strategies to lower housing and transportation costs for residents of the region.
Reconnecting America to assist the Gulf Regional Planning Commission as part of Livability Solutions work
January 17, 2012
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Reconnecting America, as a partner in Livability Solutions, has been selected to provide technical assistance to the Gulf Regional Planning Commission in Gulfport, Mississippi. Reconnecting America will be working with the Gulf Regional Planning Commission to develop a typology for transit-oriented development (TOD) and to explore mixed-income TOD strategies to lower housing and transportation costs for residents of the region.
News: NY Bike Share, Calif. HSR Head Quits, Detroit Booster, BART To Buy Cars, Gulf Coast Sustainability, Charlotte Light Rail Investment
January 13, 2012
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Research: Property Values in Minority First Suburbs
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
While property values and their appreciation in inner-city neighborhoods with high proportions of minorities have been analyzed, not much systematic research has been undertaken on property values and their appreciation in minority suburbs. This article investigates differences among First Suburban census tracts..
While property values and their appreciation in inner-city neighborhoods with high proportions of minorities have been analyzed, not much systematic research has been undertaken on property values and their appreciation in minority suburbs. This article investigates differences among First Suburban census tracts..
Blogosphere: Why HSR In California, Lego Monorail, Core Density, Shrinking The Rust Belt, Polling Transport Questions
January 5, 2012
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Opinion: Calthorpe - Why We Need HSR in California
San Francisco Chronicle
In 1956, the Federal Highway Act steered the American Dream away from small towns, streetcar suburbs and central cities toward today's auto suburb. It fit the time, shaped our communities, generated economic growth and changed our identity...
Read On Blogosphere: Steampunk Lego Overhead Monorail The Brothers Brick
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In 1956, the Federal Highway Act steered the American Dream away from small towns, streetcar suburbs and central cities toward today's auto suburb. It fit the time, shaped our communities, generated economic growth and changed our identity...
Read On Blogosphere: Steampunk Lego Overhead Monorail The Brothers Brick
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Blogosphere: The Climax of the Riverboat Era
September 14, 2011|Mammoth
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Over the course of this summer's discussion of floods, we've talked a great deal about channelization and levees and dredging and the other acts of industrial landscaping that have produced the riverine landscapes of the Mississippi watershed... Read On
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