Blogosphere: Funding Transportation, House Shakeup, Chicago BRT Backing, Urbanist Romney, 160 Sq. Ft. Apartments In SF
March 7, 2012
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Opinion: Rendell - Way to Fund Transportation
Politico
Word that the House Transportation bill is running off the rails might be the best news yet for transit. The original Republican bill, now being revised, was too small to have any real impact on our systems or employment..
Read On Blogosphere: Mica Out and Shuster In on House Side Streetsblog DC
CQ and AmericaBikes are reporting that Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica…
Word that the House Transportation bill is running off the rails might be the best news yet for transit. The original Republican bill, now being revised, was too small to have any real impact on our systems or employment..
Read On Blogosphere: Mica Out and Shuster In on House Side Streetsblog DC
CQ and AmericaBikes are reporting that Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica…
News: Transpo Spending & Jobs; Denver Rail-Bus Compromise, BART In Carpool Lane, Geographies Of Fear, Cell Towers & Home Prices
March 6, 2012
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Research: TCRP R-152 Guidelines for Ferry Transport
Journal or Urban Planning and Development (Abstract)
This report examines the history and characteristics of ferry systems throughout North America and develops guidelines for planning, marketing, operating, and managing a ferry system as a component of an overall transportation network...
Read On National: Transpo Spending May Not Add Many Jobs USA Today
The lure of roads, bridges, buses and trains…
This report examines the history and characteristics of ferry systems throughout North America and develops guidelines for planning, marketing, operating, and managing a ferry system as a component of an overall transportation network...
Read On National: Transpo Spending May Not Add Many Jobs USA Today
The lure of roads, bridges, buses and trains…
Blogosphere: SF Bike Share, HSR As Growth Engine, Rail & Walk Score, Breaking Zoning Codes, Urban Animals
March 1, 2012
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Blogosphere: SF Bike Share for Short Trips
SF Streetsblog
San Franciscans are burning with curiosity about the imminent arrival of bike-share this summer. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Center yesterday, participants wanted to know details like where the stations will be located and what color the bikes will be...
Read On Blogosphere: HSR Essential for…
San Franciscans are burning with curiosity about the imminent arrival of bike-share this summer. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Center yesterday, participants wanted to know details like where the stations will be located and what color the bikes will be...
Read On Blogosphere: HSR Essential for…
Blogosphere: Gardens On The Bus, Offstreet Parking, Portland Transit Funding, Neighborhood Magnetism, Tennessee Zoning, Suburban Future
February 29, 2012
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Blogosphere: Gardens on Top of Buses
Wake Up World (via Ed P)
Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It's an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio's graduate thesis at the NYU. The project aims to reclaim the forgotten space on the tops of city buses...
Read On Blogosphere: Can Town Do Without Public Works? Atlantic Cities
For a representative of the…
Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It's an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio's graduate thesis at the NYU. The project aims to reclaim the forgotten space on the tops of city buses...
Read On Blogosphere: Can Town Do Without Public Works? Atlantic Cities
For a representative of the…
News: Las Vegas Monorail Lessons, Nonprofit Transit, Houston Walkability, Housing Discrimination, Renting Foreclosures, Urban Tree Decline
February 28, 2012
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Las Vegas: Why the Bus System Passed Monorail
M Live
Imagine if you will a city seeking to expand its transit options. A group of private business interest purpose building a privately-funded rail line designed to connect key attractions along the city's main thoroughfare...
Read On Research: Potential for Nonprofit Transit TRB TRID
Virtually all US transit operations are managed and funded by a public agency. In Europe,…
Imagine if you will a city seeking to expand its transit options. A group of private business interest purpose building a privately-funded rail line designed to connect key attractions along the city's main thoroughfare...
Read On Research: Potential for Nonprofit Transit TRB TRID
Virtually all US transit operations are managed and funded by a public agency. In Europe,…
News: Gas Tax Inadequate, Rail Innovative Investments, Twin Cities Transitways, Sustainability & TOD, SF Housing Cost, Bus TOD, Urban Mesa
February 24, 2012
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National: Gas Tax Unable to Pay for Transpo Needs
USA Today
Transportation funding. Wait! Don't turn away. This is important - if you drive or ride in an automobile, if you commute by bus, rail or bicycle, or if your loved ones do. ..
Read On National: Innovative Investment Strategies Rail Magazine
In our second edition of Digital RAIL, we consider new and innovative strategies to support passenger rail systems and…
Transportation funding. Wait! Don't turn away. This is important - if you drive or ride in an automobile, if you commute by bus, rail or bicycle, or if your loved ones do. ..
Read On National: Innovative Investment Strategies Rail Magazine
In our second edition of Digital RAIL, we consider new and innovative strategies to support passenger rail systems and…
Blogosphere: Cost Of New Transit Riders, Bike Organizations, Demands For Traffic Calming, The Corner Store, Disappearing Skywalk System
February 24, 2012
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Blogosphere: Cost of New Riders, Park N Rides
Cap'n Transit Rides Again
This may be more important than the congestion-fighting mentality I've described in recent posts in accounting for the proliferation of park-and-ride lots and garages in transit systems new and old...
Read On Blogosphere: Three Major Bike Orgs to Join Bike League Blog (via Streetsblog)
The leadership of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, Bikes Belong, and the League…
This may be more important than the congestion-fighting mentality I've described in recent posts in accounting for the proliferation of park-and-ride lots and garages in transit systems new and old...
Read On Blogosphere: Three Major Bike Orgs to Join Bike League Blog (via Streetsblog)
The leadership of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, Bikes Belong, and the League…
News: Boston Indigo Line, Chicago BRT, Auto Pollution, Houston LRT, SF Private Public Spaces, New Regionalism
February 22, 2012
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Boston: Mayor Kicks Off Indigo Line Initiative
Boston Globe
Residents who live along the MBTA's Fairmount Line joined Mayor Thomas Menino Tuesday, at the Strand Theater in Dorchester to officially kick off the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative. ..
Read On Chicago: $7.3M Approved for BRT WBEZ Chicago
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration is channeling more than $7.3 million in tax increment financing toward a "bus…
Residents who live along the MBTA's Fairmount Line joined Mayor Thomas Menino Tuesday, at the Strand Theater in Dorchester to officially kick off the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative. ..
Read On Chicago: $7.3M Approved for BRT WBEZ Chicago
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration is channeling more than $7.3 million in tax increment financing toward a "bus…
Blogosphere: HSR Economics, Transit-First City, Transpo Bill Peril, Updating DC Zoning, Austin NIMBYism, Disappearing Urban Trees
February 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: Firms Found Florida HSR Profitable
CAHSR Blog
Florida Governor Rick Scott killed the state's high speed rail project shortly after he became governor in early 2011. Even though the private sector consortium that was planning to build and operate the system pledged to cover cost overruns...
Read On Blogosphere: Agencies Take Aim at Transit City SF Streetsblog
San…
Florida Governor Rick Scott killed the state's high speed rail project shortly after he became governor in early 2011. Even though the private sector consortium that was planning to build and operate the system pledged to cover cost overruns...
Read On Blogosphere: Agencies Take Aim at Transit City SF Streetsblog
San…
Blogosphere: Sprawl Transit, Augo-Based Mobility, Transit Tax Benefit, Locating 2020 Jobs, Urban Beekeeping, World's First Sustainable City
February 9, 2012
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Blogosphere: Problem with the Northern Branch Project
Cap'n Transit
For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit, and it's true. There wouldn't even be a stop in Nyack; if commuter rail is chosen the nearest station would be near the Palisades Mall in West Nyack..
Read On Blogosphere: Cox - Low Income Folks Get to Work New Geography
For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit, and it's true. There wouldn't even be a stop in Nyack; if commuter rail is chosen the nearest station would be near the Palisades Mall in West Nyack..
Read On Blogosphere: Cox - Low Income Folks Get to Work New Geography
