News: Houston Transit Funding, Seattle LRT Copper Theives, Pedestrian Research, Chinese Suburbanization
May 14, 2012
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Houston: Metro Hears from Public on Road Funding
Houston Chronicle
Metro board members on Friday got an earful of diverse opinions on whether the transit authority should continue to divert a portion of its sales tax revenues to road projects...
Read On Seattle: Theives Steal 4 Miles of Copper Wire Seattle Post Intelligencer
Thieves stole 70,000 pounds of copper cable…
Metro board members on Friday got an earful of diverse opinions on whether the transit authority should continue to divert a portion of its sales tax revenues to road projects...
Read On Seattle: Theives Steal 4 Miles of Copper Wire Seattle Post Intelligencer
Thieves stole 70,000 pounds of copper cable…
News: Chicago Bus Lanes, Vancouver BRT, CAHSR Numbers, Caltrain Electrification, Gainesville Transit Taxes, London Smart City Test
May 4, 2012
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Chicago: Bus Only Lanes Are Coming Soon
Chicago Sun Times
Bus rapid transit is coming to Chicago. Within two years, CTA bus riders will get their own lane to get through the throngs of traffic near Union Station and the Ogilvie Transportation Center...
Read On Vancouver WA: BRT Plan Gets the Green Light Columbian
A citizens committee Wednesday signaled it's on board for bus rapid transit…
Bus rapid transit is coming to Chicago. Within two years, CTA bus riders will get their own lane to get through the throngs of traffic near Union Station and the Ogilvie Transportation Center...
Read On Vancouver WA: BRT Plan Gets the Green Light Columbian
A citizens committee Wednesday signaled it's on board for bus rapid transit…
Blogosphere: Civil Rights & Transit, Toronto Speed Limits, Pricing Travel Behavior, Origin Story of CNU, DC Sustainability Vision
May 3, 2012
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Editorial: Civil Rights and Transit Service
Los Angeles Times
Wouldn't it be great if we could move public transportation across the city of Los Angeles as easily as the avenging thieves of the film "The Italian Job" moved their fleet of get-away Mini Coopers by hacking into the transit authority's computers and making all the lights turn green at the right moment?..
Read On Blogosphere: World's Largest Underground HSR Station …
Wouldn't it be great if we could move public transportation across the city of Los Angeles as easily as the avenging thieves of the film "The Italian Job" moved their fleet of get-away Mini Coopers by hacking into the transit authority's computers and making all the lights turn green at the right moment?..
Read On Blogosphere: World's Largest Underground HSR Station …
News: Transpo Funding Conference, Baton Rouge Transit Tax, Rio Grande Valley Rail, Detroit LRT Funders
April 24, 2012
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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…
News: Houston TOD Preference, LA LRT Problems, Oakland BRT Benefits, Italy's Private HSR, Betting Big On TOD, Air Pollution Death Toll
April 23, 2012
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Houston: Mass Transit Gains Momentum in Survey
Houston Chronicle
This year's Kinder Houston Area Survey found strong support for mass transit and a growing number of people who say they want to live within walking distance of work and shopping, reflecting what survey founder Stephen Klineberg predicts will become a fundamental shift in one of the nation's most car-centric cities...
Read On San Francisco: App Built for Muni Goes Unused New York…
This year's Kinder Houston Area Survey found strong support for mass transit and a growing number of people who say they want to live within walking distance of work and shopping, reflecting what survey founder Stephen Klineberg predicts will become a fundamental shift in one of the nation's most car-centric cities...
Read On San Francisco: App Built for Muni Goes Unused New York…
News: Transpo Bill Negotiations, A Driving Tax, Impact Of Clustered Development, National Highway Tolls, Romney & HUD, Urban Spatial Strategy
April 17, 2012
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National: More Quiet Cars on Commuter Trains
USA Today
Riders on New York's Long Island Railroad and Metro-North will have an easier time finding a quiet car now that the busiest commuter rail lines in North America increased the number of quiet spaces this month...
Read On National: Heritage Foundation Not Happy with Bill The Hill
The conservative Heritage Foundation's political arm is warning its members…
Riders on New York's Long Island Railroad and Metro-North will have an easier time finding a quiet car now that the busiest commuter rail lines in North America increased the number of quiet spaces this month...
Read On National: Heritage Foundation Not Happy with Bill The Hill
The conservative Heritage Foundation's political arm is warning its members…
Blogosphere: Accessibility & Capacity, Dutch Driving Off Peak, Seattle Subway Plans, Food Deserts, Hong Kong Underground
April 13, 2012
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Blogosphere: Accessibility Without Congestion
The Transportationist
Big cities have lots of congestion. Big cities have lots of accessibility. Therefore congestion causes accessibility. . Therefore accessibility causes congestion...
Read On Blogosphere: Dutch Rewarding Drivers for Off Peak Grush Hour
Is it possible to manage congestion without tollingevery road? Possibly not, but there is a way to put it off until "the…
Big cities have lots of congestion. Big cities have lots of accessibility. Therefore congestion causes accessibility. . Therefore accessibility causes congestion...
Read On Blogosphere: Dutch Rewarding Drivers for Off Peak Grush Hour
Is it possible to manage congestion without tollingevery road? Possibly not, but there is a way to put it off until "the…
Blogosphere: Freeway Removal Opportunity, De-Bikification Of Beijing, Exurban Decline, Urban Forests, Rural Housing Finance
April 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: Freeway Removal Creates Opportunity
The City Fix
The famed U.S. intellectual Lewis Mumford once said, "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." The recently released report on freeway removal from by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and EMBARQ (the producer of this blog) seems to be getting a bit closer to that ideal..
Read On Blogosphere: De-Bikification of Beijing …
The famed U.S. intellectual Lewis Mumford once said, "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." The recently released report on freeway removal from by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and EMBARQ (the producer of this blog) seems to be getting a bit closer to that ideal..
Read On Blogosphere: De-Bikification of Beijing …
News: Toronto's Relief LIne, Tampa Transit Tax, Houston HSR, California HSR Drops Anaheim, Pollution Property Price, China Enclave Urbanism
April 9, 2012
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Toronto: The Downtown Relief Line
Toronto Star
How do you spell relief if you ride the south end of the Yonge subway? D-R-L - downtown relief line. Since 1910, when the idea first emerged of a transit line connecting the east end of Toronto with the south end of Yonge St., the DRL has gained very little traction...
Read On Tampa: City Tax Could Pay for Transit Tampa Tribune
Two years after…
How do you spell relief if you ride the south end of the Yonge subway? D-R-L - downtown relief line. Since 1910, when the idea first emerged of a transit line connecting the east end of Toronto with the south end of Yonge St., the DRL has gained very little traction...
Read On Tampa: City Tax Could Pay for Transit Tampa Tribune
Two years after…
News: JFK On Transit, Influencing Mode Choice, SMART In Santa Rosa, Cities Lead Growth, US Steel & Pittsburgh
April 6, 2012
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National: 50 Years Ago, JFK Talks Transit
Transportation Nation
Really interesting post from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today on his fast lane blog, which we're reprinting here, in it's entirety. LaHood is using the post to push Congress to pass an actual transportation bill, but still, history buffs, have a look...
Read On Research: Built Environment Influence on Mode Choice TRB TRIS
The Five Ds of the built environment - density, land use…
Really interesting post from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today on his fast lane blog, which we're reprinting here, in it's entirety. LaHood is using the post to push Congress to pass an actual transportation bill, but still, history buffs, have a look...
Read On Research: Built Environment Influence on Mode Choice TRB TRIS
The Five Ds of the built environment - density, land use…
