Blogosphere: How Blogs Are Changing Conversation
October 27, 2011|Greater Greater Washington
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Social media played a gradually growing role in Rail~Volution over the past few years. This year, panels explored topics such as blogging and how public agencies use social media... Read On
2011 Rail~Volution Presentations
October 26, 2011
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Reconnecting America (@reconnecting) and its partners in the Center for Transit-Oriented Development were out at Rail~Volution in Washington, DC, Oct. 16-19. A full list of their workshops and seminars appears at the bottom.
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Monday, October 17, 10:30 am
Linear Thinking as Creative Thinking: Planning at the Corridor Scale (Elizabeth Wampler)
Value Capture: An Overview (Nadine Fogarty) Monday, October 17, 2:30 pm
Empowering Practitioners: Recent Analysis and Research Findings in TOD (Sam Zimbabwe and Matt Sussman)
Equitable Sustainable Community Development - Lessons From Around the US (Allison Brooks) Monday, October 17, 4:00 pm
The Politics of Community Change: Race, Class and Displacement in America (Darnell Grisby)
Affordable Housing Basics (G. Sasha Forbes)
Finance: An Overview (Shanti Breznau) Tuesday, October 18, 10:00 am
ETOD: Focusing Employment Near Transit…
Linear Thinking as Creative Thinking: Planning at the Corridor Scale (Elizabeth Wampler)
Value Capture: An Overview (Nadine Fogarty) Monday, October 17, 2:30 pm
Empowering Practitioners: Recent Analysis and Research Findings in TOD (Sam Zimbabwe and Matt Sussman)
Equitable Sustainable Community Development - Lessons From Around the US (Allison Brooks) Monday, October 17, 4:00 pm
The Politics of Community Change: Race, Class and Displacement in America (Darnell Grisby)
Affordable Housing Basics (G. Sasha Forbes)
Finance: An Overview (Shanti Breznau) Tuesday, October 18, 10:00 am
ETOD: Focusing Employment Near Transit…
DC: Will New Americans Fuel Urbansim?
October 18, 2011|DC Streetsblog
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This year's Rail~volution conference - the annual gathering of livability advocates, urban sustainability coordinators, and transit agency officials - kicked off today with remarks by Chris Leinberger of the Brookings Institution and Manuel Pastor, who teaches demographics and ethnicity at the University of Southern California... Read On
Blogosphere: What If Metro Was Never Built?
October 18, 2011|DC Streetsblog
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Rail~Volution 2011 marks the first time since 2002 that this conference for all things transit and smart growth has taken place in the nation's capital. When it comes to livability, Washington and neighboring Arlington County have some great stories to share with the rest of the country... Read On
Blogosphere: Is Transit Key to Regional Future?
October 17, 2011|Dallas Morning News
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Sunday kicks off a remarkable conference in Washington focused in large part on showing cities, developers and transit agencies how to make real their dreams of using transit to anchor major development around rail stations... Read On
Follow All The Action At 2011 Rail~Volution, Washington, DC
October 16, 2011
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Reconnecting America and its partners in the Center for Transit-Oriented Development are out at Rail~Volution in Washington, DC, Oct. 16-Oct. 19. A list of their workshops and seminars is here.
Rail~Volution 2011
October 16, 2011
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Reconnecting America's experts will be participating in the Rail~Volution conference Oct. 16 to Oct. 19 in Washington, DC.
Rail~Volution Pregame Show
October 14, 2011
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Reconnecting America President and CEO John Robert Smith was interviewed on morning television in Washington, DC, in advance of the opening of the 2011 Rail~Volution conference.
Steering the Rail~Volution
July 28, 2011
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Reconnecting America Chief of Staff Allison Brooks will be in Los Angeles for the Rail~Volution Steering Committee meeting. Rail~Volution's mission is to create a national movement to develop livable communities with transit. Livable communities are those that are healthy, economically vibrant, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable. More information
Response To Federal Continuing Resolution
April 12, 2011
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The recently announced compromise to fund the federal government through the remainder of FY2011 preserves several critical programs, but also raises cause for concern. Reconnecting America is pleased to see that the compromise continues to support the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which is effectively coordinating federal housing and transportation programs to provide the greatest benefits at the regional and local levels. Programs such as DOT's TIGER grants and HUD's Sustainable Communities grants will save taxpayer dollars over the long-term by helping communities make better investments today.
However, the reduction in the Federal Transit Administration's New Starts/Small Starts program (see analysis of cuts here) and the complete elimination of the High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail program in FY 2011 is a step in the wrong direction. In this era of $4-a-gallon gas, Americans need more transportation options, not fewer. In…
