News: Conversation With LaHood, Cincinnati Streetcar Fight, Montana Coal Train Worries, Chattanooga Bike Share, Maine City Vs. Subsurbs
December 21, 2012
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National: Improving DOT - Conversation with Ray LaHood
Washington Post (via Streetsblog DC)
The idea that you engage employees and not only listen but follow through is central to the idea of building a relationship. I've met with all the employees in every department...
Read On Cincinnati: City Strikes Back in Streetcar Fight…
The idea that you engage employees and not only listen but follow through is central to the idea of building a relationship. I've met with all the employees in every department...
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News: Portland SW Corridor Options, Autonomous Car Plans, Gen Y Homebuyers, Re-Imagining 21st Century Cities
October 24, 2012
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Portland: Cities, Planners, Narrow SW Corridor Options
Portland Tribune
The transit element of Metro's Southwest Corridor study is coming into focus, after a steering committee of local leaders asked for studies of several transit options...
Read On National: Autonomous Car Boosters Show Off Plans Transportation Nation
It's the heart of the morning commute. A professional pulls his laptop computer from his brief case and begins typing emails to…
The transit element of Metro's Southwest Corridor study is coming into focus, after a steering committee of local leaders asked for studies of several transit options...
Read On National: Autonomous Car Boosters Show Off Plans Transportation Nation
It's the heart of the morning commute. A professional pulls his laptop computer from his brief case and begins typing emails to…
Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America: How Smaller Cities and Rural Places Are Using Transit and Mobility Investments to Strengthen Their Economies and Communities
May 24, 2012
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Introduction
Public transportation plays a critical and expanding role in rural America. Just as it does in urban environments, public transportation in small towns and rural areas provides mobility choices and promotes sustainable economies. Across the country, small towns and rural communities are developing partnerships to build intermodal transit centers, creating circulator buses to catalyze private investments in their downtowns, and improving connections between people and jobs. Small towns are using public transportation investments to help address the challenges of limited resources, populations both shrinking and growing older, industrial decline, and the loss of farmland. Through strong partnerships and creative funding mechanisms, rural America is creating stronger and healthier communities through transit1 investments. Connie Garber, a passionate advocate of rural services and transportation director at York County Community Action Corporation in Maine, sums…
Reconnecting America and Community Transportation Association of America release Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America
May 24, 2012
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Reconnecting America and the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) today released a report that examines how smaller communities and rural regions are using transit and other mobility investments to revitalize their economies and connect residents to local and regional opportunities.
Putting Transit to Work in Small Towns and Rural Places
March 7, 2012
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“What do you do when people need a ride to kidney dialysis?” asked Jim Moulton, director of Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) in Middlebury, Vermont. “You can’t just tell them no.”
Blogosphere: Densest Place On Earth, Istanbul's Sprawl, Narrow Streets Project, Health & Urban Design, Rural Transit
January 30, 2012
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Blogosphere: Ford Had No Authority to Cancel Plans
Steve Munro
Today's Star reports that a legal opinion obtained by Councillor Joe Mihevc, former Vice-Chair of the TTC in the Miller administration, states that Mayor Ford had no authority under the laws governing the City of Toronto to cancel Transit City...
Read On Blogosphere: The Densest Place on Earth Price Tags
Originally built as a Chinese military fort, the Kowloon Walled City became a residential enclave after the New…
Today's Star reports that a legal opinion obtained by Councillor Joe Mihevc, former Vice-Chair of the TTC in the Miller administration, states that Mayor Ford had no authority under the laws governing the City of Toronto to cancel Transit City...
Read On Blogosphere: The Densest Place on Earth Price Tags
Originally built as a Chinese military fort, the Kowloon Walled City became a residential enclave after the New…
Blogoshpere: Rust Belt Stereotypes, Transit Confusion, Multipolar Cities, A Better Bus, The Transit Core, Indoor Bee Keeping
November 21, 2011
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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.
Blogosphere: Rust Belt Stereotypes
Rust Belt
The Rust Belt is poor. It's not news. The Rust Belt is also heavily segregated. Both facts are related. Zones of extreme segregation and poverty serve to siphon potential of a city's limited human capital, and they create negative externalities that sap a city's limited resources...
Read On Blogosphere: Streetfilms Q&A with Mia Birk Streetfilms
In the past year,…
The Rust Belt is poor. It's not news. The Rust Belt is also heavily segregated. Both facts are related. Zones of extreme segregation and poverty serve to siphon potential of a city's limited human capital, and they create negative externalities that sap a city's limited resources...
Read On Blogosphere: Streetfilms Q&A with Mia Birk Streetfilms
In the past year,…
Quote of the Day
February 10, 2011|The Forcaster
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"I'm here because I'm just learning about the Gateway 1 project, and I'm not very happy," he said. "How many of you on the panel here are familiar with Agenda 21?" he asked. "
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Quote of the Day
February 10, 2011|The Forcaster
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"I'm here because I'm just learning about the Gateway 1 project, and I'm not very happy," he said. "How many of you on the panel here are familiar with Agenda 21?" he asked.
Dayton: Developer Discusses Investment Benefits
September 21, 2009|Dayton Daily News
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A land developer from Maine visited Dayton on Tuesday, Sept. 15, to tell local business and government leaders that Maine's investment in passenger rail service has delivered benefits exceeding what planners expected....
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