News: Transpo Funding Conference, Baton Rouge Transit Tax, Rio Grande Valley Rail, Detroit LRT Funders
April 24, 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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National: Maybe the System is Working!
Transportation Nation Experts Blog
Everybody take a deep breath. Congress is poised this week to appoint conferees to a long-awaited conference committee that will negotiate a highway bill. Finally. I know that President Obama has dangled a veto threat over the House version, and I know that Republicans are determined to link the politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline to a bipartisan infrastructure bill...
Read On Research: How to…
Everybody take a deep breath. Congress is poised this week to appoint conferees to a long-awaited conference committee that will negotiate a highway bill. Finally. I know that President Obama has dangled a veto threat over the House version, and I know that Republicans are determined to link the politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline to a bipartisan infrastructure bill...
Read On Research: How to…
Housing California 2012 Annual Conference
April 11, 2012
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Reconnecting America Chief of Staff Allison Brooks will be participating in a panel discussion of TOD financing tools at the 2012 Annual Housing California Conference in Sacramento on April 11. The panel, "Fresh Financing Tools to Support Affordable Homes and Equitable Transit-Oriented Development" will discuss tje omplex new partnerships between nonprofit community development organizations, government, philanthropic foundations, and community and private lenders who are merging to provide much-needed financing for mixed-income, transit-oriented development in regions around the United States. Funds created by these new partnerships are innovative tools in addressing the unique set of challenges posed by transit-oriented development, including limited land supply and higher costs in transit-rich areas, the need for higher-risk and more-patient capital, and local land-use and policy support for workforce housing and mixed-use development.
TransitRenewal 201202017
April 11, 2012
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Sacramento Regional Transit's draft TransitRenewal 2012-2017 Sevice Implementation for TransitAction has been added to the Research Center best practices database. The document aims to position the transit district's network to sustainably meet future transit demand within its service area.
TransitRenewal 2012-2017
March 26, 2012
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Introduction
The 2011-2012 Sacramento Regional Transit Comprehensive Operational Analysis, commonly known as “TransitRenewal”, includes a review of existing market conditions and transit service and aims to position the RT network to sustainably meet future transit demand within the service area. Sustainability is the method of using a resource without depleting or damaging it for future use. Sustainable transit planning focuses on meeting transit needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet such needs1. TransitRenewal responds to changing economic circumstances and RT’s new financial realities. In 2010, RT implemented substantial service reductions which included discontinuing several bus routes, reducing service levels, and reducing spans. TransitRenewal responds to RT’s plan to regain previous FY 2010 service levels and intends to identify core areas of the RT system where investment will have a maximum benefit, and will guide RT to…
Blogosphere: Changing Transpo Bill, Future Streets, Privatizing Parking, Tactical Urbanism, Arrival Cities
March 5, 2012
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: How Transpo Bill Changed Overnight
DC Streetsblog
The sun rose this morning on a landscape considerably different from the one described by not one but two articles Streetsblog published yesterday...
Read On Blogosphere: The Street of the Future! Streetsblog
This 45-second simulation of cute miniature jelly beans multi-ton driverless vehicles navigating the…
The sun rose this morning on a landscape considerably different from the one described by not one but two articles Streetsblog published yesterday...
Read On Blogosphere: The Street of the Future! Streetsblog
This 45-second simulation of cute miniature jelly beans multi-ton driverless vehicles navigating the…
News: 18 Month Transpo Bill, Longmont's Train Choice, Twin Cities Rail Support, Climate Adaption, Housing Crisis
March 1, 2012
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National: House GOP Floats 18 Month Bill
Transportation Nation
House Republican leaders have arrived at an 18-month highway bill they hope can replace a much broader five-year bill that faltered earlier this month, according to lawmakers and aides...
Read On Denver: Longmont Wants the Train Daily Camera
Faced with what it called a trio of bad FasTracks options, the council held its nose to choose one -- in one case,…
House Republican leaders have arrived at an 18-month highway bill they hope can replace a much broader five-year bill that faltered earlier this month, according to lawmakers and aides...
Read On Denver: Longmont Wants the Train Daily Camera
Faced with what it called a trio of bad FasTracks options, the council held its nose to choose one -- in one case,…
Blogosphere: Dallas LRT, Embracing Sacramento Streetcar, Federal Highway-Centric Bill, Illegal Guerrilla Wayfinding, Evolving Curbside
February 28, 2012
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Dallas LRT, Tip of the Iceberg
DOT Fastlane
Whether it's reducing highway traffic by taking cars off the road, slowing the effect of carbon emissions, or spurring economic development along bus, subway, streetcar, and light rail routes, public transit helps move America...
Read On Editorial: City Council Should Embrace Streetcars Sacramento Bee
In mapping the future of downtown Sacramento, city…
Whether it's reducing highway traffic by taking cars off the road, slowing the effect of carbon emissions, or spurring economic development along bus, subway, streetcar, and light rail routes, public transit helps move America...
Read On Editorial: City Council Should Embrace Streetcars Sacramento Bee
In mapping the future of downtown Sacramento, city…
Sacramento: RT Overbudget on First Leg of Line
August 23, 2011|Sacramento Bee
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Laying track in downtown Sacramento is once again proving to be a budget-buster for Sacramento Regional Transit. Agency officials revealed they are facing $2 million to $3 million more in costs than expected during construction of the first leg of a light-rail extension... Read On
Sacramento: Railyard Project and Stadium Can Work
August 11, 2011|Sacramento Bee
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A report by the Urban Land Institute has found that both a new sports arena and the city of Sacramento's planned transit hub could fit snugly in the downtown railyard... Read On
Sacramento: Redev Agencies Will Have to Pay to Stay
July 11, 2011|Sacramento Bee
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Millions of dollars worth of redevelopment projects in the Sacramento region have come to a halt as the public agencies working on them decide whether to dissolve themselves or pay to stay in operation... Read On
