Urban Issues: Portand Incentives For Nike, Affordable Housing & Transport Options, Rethinking Town Centers
April 12, 2013
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Portland Considers Luring Nike to South Waterfront with Incentives
Portland Oregonian
Attempting to lure Nike to Portland's South Waterfront District, city officials have considered offering unprecedented financial incentives of about $80 million for parking garages, parks and new streets tied to a massive company expansion, The Oregonian has learned.
Blogosphere: Walk Score For Canada, Bike Share & Transit, Future Of Driverless Cars, City Road Diets, Mapping Density, GOP & Cities
January 24, 2013
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Blogosphere: Walk Score Ranks Canada's Cities
Walk Score Blog
Vancouver, with a Walk Score of 78, topped Canada's most walkable cities in our first ranking of Most Walkable Canadian Cities and Neighbourhoods. We rated the walkability of more than 300 Canadian cities and 1,200 neighbourhoods...
Read On Blogosphere: Drivers Cover 51% of US Road Spending DC Streetsblog
There's a persistent misconception in American culture that transit is a big…
Vancouver, with a Walk Score of 78, topped Canada's most walkable cities in our first ranking of Most Walkable Canadian Cities and Neighbourhoods. We rated the walkability of more than 300 Canadian cities and 1,200 neighbourhoods...
Read On Blogosphere: Drivers Cover 51% of US Road Spending DC Streetsblog
There's a persistent misconception in American culture that transit is a big…
News: Transit Access Satisfaction Factors, Vancouver Anti-LRT Law, Seattle Rent Forcast, Beijing To Focus On Ecology, Denver Brownfield Revitalization
January 18, 2013
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Twin Cities: 70% Residents Support Spending for SWLRT
Twin Cities Finance and Commerce
A new survey shows support is growing for the Southwest Light Rail Transit line and that most respondents think Minnesota should spend $118 million to help pay for its construction...
Read On DC: Smartphone Developers - Metro Limiting Bus Data Washington Post
Developers of transit apps for smartphones say Metro unnecessarily limits the data it provides, and when the transit agency does provide…
A new survey shows support is growing for the Southwest Light Rail Transit line and that most respondents think Minnesota should spend $118 million to help pay for its construction...
Read On DC: Smartphone Developers - Metro Limiting Bus Data Washington Post
Developers of transit apps for smartphones say Metro unnecessarily limits the data it provides, and when the transit agency does provide…
News: Oklahoma Streetcar Plans, Atlanta Transit Plans, PPPs In India Tested, Does TOD Make A Difference
January 4, 2013
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Oklahoma City: Streetcar Plans Scrutinized
News Oklahoma
The groundwork for a streetcar proposed for downtown Oklahoma City has come under scrutiny from several members of the city council...
Read On Atlanta: Transit Plans Slowed, Not Stopped Atlanta Journal Constitution
Despite this summer's failure of the regional T-SPLOST referendum, there's still one place where big new mass transit plans are cooking: the city of Atlanta...
The groundwork for a streetcar proposed for downtown Oklahoma City has come under scrutiny from several members of the city council...
Read On Atlanta: Transit Plans Slowed, Not Stopped Atlanta Journal Constitution
Despite this summer's failure of the regional T-SPLOST referendum, there's still one place where big new mass transit plans are cooking: the city of Atlanta...
News: St. Paul BRT Route, Social Media & Transit Agencies, London Underground At 150, Transit & Economic Efficiency, Boston Orange Line Opportunities
January 3, 2013
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Twin Cities: Snelling Ave to Get Rapid Bus Line
Pioneer Press
Metro Transit officials envision a new "rapid bus" route that would mostly travel along Snelling Avenue in St. Paul, starting at the 46th Street light-rail transit station in Minneapolis and ending at the Rosedale transit center...
Read On International: Red to Yellow, Angers Chinese Drivers Washington Post
Drivers in China are seeing red over a new crackdown on running through intersections…
Metro Transit officials envision a new "rapid bus" route that would mostly travel along Snelling Avenue in St. Paul, starting at the 46th Street light-rail transit station in Minneapolis and ending at the Rosedale transit center...
Read On International: Red to Yellow, Angers Chinese Drivers Washington Post
Drivers in China are seeing red over a new crackdown on running through intersections…
Blogosphere: Value Capture & Dulles Extension, Honolulu Rail Fight, HSR & Airports, Hubs Of Manufacturing
August 21, 2012
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Blogosphere: Value Capture and Dulles Extension
DC Streetsblog
The failure of Atlanta's transportation ballot measure late last month led to speculation among many analysts about what the vote meant for other regions across the country looking for ways to fund infrastructure projects...
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The failure of Atlanta's transportation ballot measure late last month led to speculation among many analysts about what the vote meant for other regions across the country looking for ways to fund infrastructure projects...
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News: LRT Sales Tax Vote, Vegas Parking, LA LRT Junction Flaw, Lesson In Placemaking, Evaluating TOD Impact
July 12, 2012
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Vancouver WA: C-Tran Putting LRT Measure to Voters
Columbian
The C-Tran Board of Directors on Tuesday finalized plans for a Nov. 6 sales tax ballot measure that would, in part, pay for the operation of a light rail extension into Vancouver, planned as part of the Columbia River Crossing project...
Read On Las Vegas: Vibrant Downtown Depends on Less Parking Las Vegas Weekly
If the average Las Vegan could rewrite the Bill of Rights, the new First Amendment…
The C-Tran Board of Directors on Tuesday finalized plans for a Nov. 6 sales tax ballot measure that would, in part, pay for the operation of a light rail extension into Vancouver, planned as part of the Columbia River Crossing project...
Read On Las Vegas: Vibrant Downtown Depends on Less Parking Las Vegas Weekly
If the average Las Vegan could rewrite the Bill of Rights, the new First Amendment…
Blogosphere: Transit & White People, Transit Access To Labor, Visualizing US BRT, Crowdfunding Infrastructure, Tiny NY Apartments
July 12, 2012
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Blogosphere: Is Transit Failing White People?
Human Transit
How do you react when you read the following sentence? "In Los Angeles, 92 percent of bus riders are people of color." This supposedly shocking fact is the starting point for Amanda Hess's confused and aggravating piece in the Atlantic today, which argues that somehow transit is failing because it's not attracting enough white people...
Read On Blogosphere: Transit Access to…
How do you react when you read the following sentence? "In Los Angeles, 92 percent of bus riders are people of color." This supposedly shocking fact is the starting point for Amanda Hess's confused and aggravating piece in the Atlantic today, which argues that somehow transit is failing because it's not attracting enough white people...
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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: Indiana Transpo Financing, Transit's Secret Language, Air Rights Development, Kaleidoscopic Cities
March 9, 2012
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Blogosphere: Another House Proposal Dies
DC Streetsblog
The original six-year House transportation bill had funding levels that were too low, so House leaders axed that and came up with a fairy tale bill in which oil drilling would pay for higher transportation spending levels...
Read On Blogosphere: Creative Transport Financing in Indiana The Urbanophile
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The original six-year House transportation bill had funding levels that were too low, so House leaders axed that and came up with a fairy tale bill in which oil drilling would pay for higher transportation spending levels...
Read On Blogosphere: Creative Transport Financing in Indiana The Urbanophile
I've been…
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