News: Reno Rapid Bus, Best Case Fed Transpo Bill, Twin Cities Central Corridor, Subway Evolution, Urban Suburban
May 16, 2012
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Reno: City to Get Rapid Bus Line
Fox Reno
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff today announced that the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County received a $5.1 million grant to purchase new hybrid-electric buses and build a new fueling station...
Read On Pennsylvania: Rendell - Bill Should 'Do No Harm' Transportation Nation
Transit backers have…
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff today announced that the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County received a $5.1 million grant to purchase new hybrid-electric buses and build a new fueling station...
Read On Pennsylvania: Rendell - Bill Should 'Do No Harm' Transportation Nation
Transit backers have…
News: LA's Changing Boulevards, Houston Supercommuters, Transport Bill Talks, Florida's Outsource City
May 15, 2012
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Los Angeles: Boulevards Are Changing in LA
Los Angeles Times
As Los Angeles' boulevards reassert their place in the public realm, the transformation along Atlantic offers glimpses of a new city identity taking shape...
Read On Texas: Dallas to Houston Supercommuters Top of Nation Dallas Morning News
Has that Frisco-to-Dallas commute…
As Los Angeles' boulevards reassert their place in the public realm, the transformation along Atlantic offers glimpses of a new city identity taking shape...
Read On Texas: Dallas to Houston Supercommuters Top of Nation Dallas Morning News
Has that Frisco-to-Dallas commute…
News: Transit Resiliency, Des Moines BRT Stalls, Bike & Pedestrian Funding, TIF District Benefits, City Allergies
May 10, 2012
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Salt Lake City: Sugarhouse Streetcar Starts Construction
Salt Lake Tribune
Under the warm spring sun Wednesday, a crowd gathered at 2235 Main St. in South Salt Lake to celebrate the beginning of the long anticipated return of streetcars to the Salt Lake Valley...
Read On Pittsburgh: Impact of Port Authority Route Eliminations UCSUR Pub
The Port Authority of Allegheny County has proposed a 35 percent service reduction to cope with a looming $64 million budget shortfall.
Under the warm spring sun Wednesday, a crowd gathered at 2235 Main St. in South Salt Lake to celebrate the beginning of the long anticipated return of streetcars to the Salt Lake Valley...
Read On Pittsburgh: Impact of Port Authority Route Eliminations UCSUR Pub
The Port Authority of Allegheny County has proposed a 35 percent service reduction to cope with a looming $64 million budget shortfall.
Blogosphere: Unsustainable Gas Tax, State Of Infrastructure, Transit Recession, Copenhagenization, Frequency vs Coverage
May 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: WMATA Says Blogs Aren't News Media
Greater Greater Washington
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...
Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...
Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
News: NY Bike Share Cost, Fed. Conference Bill, Seattle Parking Minimums, Private Texas HSR, Healthy Planning, Building Affordable Housing
May 9, 2012
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New York: Price of City's Bike Share
Guardian UK
Perhaps it is because gift horses seem so few and far-between in the cycling campaigning world that the common habit of advocates is not just to look them in the mouth, but immediately to start doing dentistry on them...
Read On National: Negotiators Kick Off Bill Conference Transportation Nation
Republicans and Democrats from the House and Senate began their formal conference over surface…
Perhaps it is because gift horses seem so few and far-between in the cycling campaigning world that the common habit of advocates is not just to look them in the mouth, but immediately to start doing dentistry on them...
Read On National: Negotiators Kick Off Bill Conference Transportation Nation
Republicans and Democrats from the House and Senate began their formal conference over surface…
News: Planning Megaprojects, Personalized Travel Planning, Encouraging Walking, NY Bike Share, Chicago Train Congestion
May 8, 2012
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National: Amtrak Ticket Checkers to Use iPhones
New York Times
Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone...
Read On Research: Why Mass Media Matters to Planning Research Journal of Planning Education and Research (Abstract)
(Note from JW - This paper is by Bent Flyvbjerg and discusses megaprojects) This article asks how planning scholarship may effectively gain impact in planning…
Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone...
Read On Research: Why Mass Media Matters to Planning Research Journal of Planning Education and Research (Abstract)
(Note from JW - This paper is by Bent Flyvbjerg and discusses megaprojects) This article asks how planning scholarship may effectively gain impact in planning…
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 …
Researching The Impact of Transit Oriented Development on Public Transportation Ridership
May 1, 2012
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A 2005 Florida study that sought to develop a research design to better establish the relationship between transit oriented development (TOD) and travel mode share has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
Blogosphere: Logic Of Buses, Transit Patent Trolls, NY Rent Control, Floating Cities, Romney Smart Growth Model
April 24, 2012
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Blogosphere: The Magic of Streetcars, Logic of Buses
Streets.mn
The City of Minneapolis is promoting Streetcars in a number of corridors, including one in North along Broadway to compensate for the rerouting of Bottineau LRT to avoid North. Promoters of Minneapolis Streetcars, including Mayor R.T. Rybak, are engaged in magical thinking in their assertion that streetcars will have transformative effects...
Read On Blogosphere: More on the Patent Trolls Atlantic…
The City of Minneapolis is promoting Streetcars in a number of corridors, including one in North along Broadway to compensate for the rerouting of Bottineau LRT to avoid North. Promoters of Minneapolis Streetcars, including Mayor R.T. Rybak, are engaged in magical thinking in their assertion that streetcars will have transformative effects...
Read On Blogosphere: More on the Patent Trolls Atlantic…
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…
