Blogosphere: Speeding Cars & Child Safety, TIFIA Loan Value, CAHSR Business Plan, The Vienna Metropolis, Charlotte's Sidewalks
May 4, 2012
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Blogosphere: Think of the Children
Systemic Failure
Politicians will go to any length to protect children from underage sex, predators, and abductions. But when public health professionals suggest children should be protected from speeding automobiles - well, get ready for a whole lot of stupid:..
Read On Blogosphere: A Little TIFIA Goes a Long Way DOT Fastlane
While America waits for Congress to pass a comprehensive, long-term transportation plan, DOT…
Politicians will go to any length to protect children from underage sex, predators, and abductions. But when public health professionals suggest children should be protected from speeding automobiles - well, get ready for a whole lot of stupid:..
Read On Blogosphere: A Little TIFIA Goes a Long Way DOT Fastlane
While America waits for Congress to pass a comprehensive, long-term transportation plan, DOT…
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?..
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Blogoshere: Copenhagen Difference, Robert Moses Effect, Toronto Green Roof Policy, Really Compact Building
April 26, 2012
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Blogosphere: Why Streets of Copenhagen are Different
The Atlantic Cities
Yesterday, I wrote about how the streets of cities in the United States were transformed over time into the exclusive province of cars. Fundamental changes in infrastructure and in law have solidified an attitude of resignation to the idea that people on foot or on bikes will inevitably be struck by vehicles...
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Yesterday, I wrote about how the streets of cities in the United States were transformed over time into the exclusive province of cars. Fundamental changes in infrastructure and in law have solidified an attitude of resignation to the idea that people on foot or on bikes will inevitably be struck by vehicles...
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Blogosphere: Invention Of Jaywalking, SF Livable Streets, Poverty & Road Hazards, Equitable Transit, LA Development Reform
April 25, 2012
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Blogosphere: The Invention of Jaywalking
Atlantic Cities
It happened again the other night. This time, the driver of a Jaguar traveling down 42nd Street in Manhattan struck another car and lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk and striking several pedestrians...
Read On Blogosphere: RIP 2012 Federal Transportation Bill? Transportation Issues Daily
We may well look back upon this day as the one in which we realized once and for all that no…
It happened again the other night. This time, the driver of a Jaguar traveling down 42nd Street in Manhattan struck another car and lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk and striking several pedestrians...
Read On Blogosphere: RIP 2012 Federal Transportation Bill? Transportation Issues Daily
We may well look back upon this day as the one in which we realized once and for all that no…
News: LA Orange Line Testing, Denver LRT Corridor Ideas, NC LRT Extension Funding, Romeny's HUD Comments, Toronto Condo Boom
April 20, 2012
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Los Angeles: Orange Line Testing Starts Monday
Los Angeles Times
Three weeks of testing are scheduled to begin Monday for the new Orange Line extension -- a $216-million project in the San Fernando Valley that will add four miles to the bus rapid transit route and link it to the Chatsworth Metrolink rail station...
Read On Denver: RTD Seeking Ideas for I225 LRT Project Denver Post
Private firms will soon be asked to submit…
Three weeks of testing are scheduled to begin Monday for the new Orange Line extension -- a $216-million project in the San Fernando Valley that will add four miles to the bus rapid transit route and link it to the Chatsworth Metrolink rail station...
Read On Denver: RTD Seeking Ideas for I225 LRT Project Denver Post
Private firms will soon be asked to submit…
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: Toronto Vs. Los Angeles, Privatizing Transpo, Pollution Credit HSR Funding, Las Vegas HSR, Slower Muni Bus Service
April 2, 2012
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Toronto: While Toronto Fights, LA Builds
Globe and Mail
Denny Zane can pinpoint the moment when the famously heavy traffic in Los Angeles changed from slushy to solid. It was the summer of 2007, and the back-ups on the I-10, through the city's west side, snaked back over 20 kilometres and reappeared day after day after day, with no obvious cause...
Denny Zane can pinpoint the moment when the famously heavy traffic in Los Angeles changed from slushy to solid. It was the summer of 2007, and the back-ups on the I-10, through the city's west side, snaked back over 20 kilometres and reappeared day after day after day, with no obvious cause...
Blogosphere: Four Horsemen Of Bipartisanship, Toronto Takes LRT Over Subway, Electrifying Caltrain, Rooftop Water Supplies
March 23, 2012
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Blogosphere: 4 Unsung Heroes Critical to Senate Bill
Transportation Bill
They are the "Four Horsemen of Bipartisanship" according to Gary Hoitsma, editor of the DC-based Washington Letter on Transportation and Managing Associate at The Carmen Group. Hoitsma was kind enough enough to share with our readers this section from the current WLT issue:..
Read On Blogosphere: Council Approves LRT Over…
They are the "Four Horsemen of Bipartisanship" according to Gary Hoitsma, editor of the DC-based Washington Letter on Transportation and Managing Associate at The Carmen Group. Hoitsma was kind enough enough to share with our readers this section from the current WLT issue:..
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News: Detroit LRT Optimism, Toronto Parking Levy, 3 Month Fed Transpo Extension, Berkeley Downtown Plan, Portland Housing
March 22, 2012
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Detroit: LaHood Still Optimistic About Woodward
Detroit News
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he is optimistic the M-1 Woodward Avenue light-rail project can still go forward, despite concerns raised by the federal government about the project's feasibility...
Read On Toronto: Parking Levy to Fund Subway Proposed Globe and Mail
Toronto should implement a commercial parking levy…
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he is optimistic the M-1 Woodward Avenue light-rail project can still go forward, despite concerns raised by the federal government about the project's feasibility...
Read On Toronto: Parking Levy to Fund Subway Proposed Globe and Mail
Toronto should implement a commercial parking levy…
News: Detroit LRT Doubts, Canada Line Housing Demand, Prohibiting Rail Density, SF Parking Success, Austin Urban Village Vision
March 19, 2012
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Detroit: Light Rail Meets Doubt from DOT
Detroit Free Press
The U.S. Transportation Department expressed concerns about funding and costs for a 3.4-mile light-rail or streetcar line on Woodward from downtown Detroit to New Center in a blunt status report given to investors this week...
Read On Vancouver: Wait for Housing Strong on Canada Line Vancouver Sun
The U.S. Transportation Department expressed concerns about funding and costs for a 3.4-mile light-rail or streetcar line on Woodward from downtown Detroit to New Center in a blunt status report given to investors this week...
Read On Vancouver: Wait for Housing Strong on Canada Line Vancouver Sun
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