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Urban Issues: HUD's Sequestration Cuts, Transformational Data, Investing Pensions Locally, Smarter Cities, Big Data In NYC, Technology As City Equalizer
April 3, 2013
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Housing Hardest Cut of Sequestration
Slate Moneybox
Sequestration is largely designed to prevent cuts in targeted anti-poverty programs, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development's various housing assistant programs are an exception.
Blogosphere: Paying For Charlotte Transit, War On Cars, WMATA Strategic Plan, Anti-Bike Media, Housing Voucher Impact
January 25, 2013
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Blogosphere: How to Pay for Future Charlotte Transit?
The Naked City
Mecklenburg's transit agency, the Metropolitan Transit Commission, is launching a study group to look at how to pay for future transit projects..
Read On Blogosphere: SF Brings Back Chinatown Parking Ban Streetsblog SF
In San Francisco's Chinatown, removing car parking is great for business. Last year's week-long trial removal of parking on five blocks of Stockton Street was…
Mecklenburg's transit agency, the Metropolitan Transit Commission, is launching a study group to look at how to pay for future transit projects..
Read On Blogosphere: SF Brings Back Chinatown Parking Ban Streetsblog SF
In San Francisco's Chinatown, removing car parking is great for business. Last year's week-long trial removal of parking on five blocks of Stockton Street was…
News: Florida's HSR Flirtation, China Holiday Gridlock, Twin Cities LRT Expedited, Toronto Cent Sales Tax, Bike-Share Elitism, Scooter Taxis
October 2, 2012
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Florida: Flirtation with HSR Recounted in New Book
Transportation Nation
It seems like Florida and high-speed rail were a couple that always flirted across a crowded room - but neither had the nerve to ask for a date. Finally in 2010 and 2011 it seemed like progress was being made...
Read On International: China's Holiday Creates Gridlock Telegraph UK (via @trnsprttnst)
When 1.3 billion people all go on holiday at the same time, a…
It seems like Florida and high-speed rail were a couple that always flirted across a crowded room - but neither had the nerve to ask for a date. Finally in 2010 and 2011 it seemed like progress was being made...
Read On International: China's Holiday Creates Gridlock Telegraph UK (via @trnsprttnst)
When 1.3 billion people all go on holiday at the same time, a…
Blogosphere: Peak Factors & Intercity Trains, Labor Rules & Commuter Trains, Complete Street Policies, Stroller Share, World's Longest Bus
August 28, 2012
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Blogosphere: Peak Factors and Intercity Trains
Pedestrian Observations
In contrast with Reason's fraud, CARRD's Elizabeth Alexis makes a more serious criticism of the XpressWest plan: there is a prominent peak in travel from Southern California to Las Vegas on Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon...
Read On Blogosphere: Labor Rules Snarl US Commuter Trains Bloomberg
Railroading has, like almost all industries, made great strides…
In contrast with Reason's fraud, CARRD's Elizabeth Alexis makes a more serious criticism of the XpressWest plan: there is a prominent peak in travel from Southern California to Las Vegas on Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon...
Read On Blogosphere: Labor Rules Snarl US Commuter Trains Bloomberg
Railroading has, like almost all industries, made great strides…
Blogosphere: Walk Appeal Standard, Paying People To Bike To Work, Reality Of Transit-Jobs Link In Utah
July 26, 2012
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Blogosphere: Walk Appeal, New Standard for Sheds
Original Green
Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either contradictory or mysterious...
Read On Blogosphere: Should We Pay People to Bike to Work Boston Magazine
This morning, it took me 40 minutes to drive 3.5 miles from my house in Jamaica Plain to my office by Symphony Hall. That's about 5 miles per hour..
Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either contradictory or mysterious...
Read On Blogosphere: Should We Pay People to Bike to Work Boston Magazine
This morning, it took me 40 minutes to drive 3.5 miles from my house in Jamaica Plain to my office by Symphony Hall. That's about 5 miles per hour..
News: Tucson Streetcars, Fixing Highway Mistake, Dallas-Ft. Worth HSR, Walnut Creek TOD, East London Changes, Latin America Gentrification
July 20, 2012
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Tucson: FTA Urges City to Buy Another Streetcar
Railway Age
Tucson's order of seven streetcars from United Streetcar, LLC isn't adequate to serve the city's four-mile line, now under construction, the Federal Transit Administration says. FTA recommends an eighth car be purchased...
Read On New Haven: Plan to Right a Highway's Wrong New York Times
In the 1950s, this city, like others, believed that the best way to get people back from the suburbs was…
Tucson's order of seven streetcars from United Streetcar, LLC isn't adequate to serve the city's four-mile line, now under construction, the Federal Transit Administration says. FTA recommends an eighth car be purchased...
Read On New Haven: Plan to Right a Highway's Wrong New York Times
In the 1950s, this city, like others, believed that the best way to get people back from the suburbs was…
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…
Blogosphere: Driving Blind, Hating The Bus, TOD Density Bonus, Citizen Engagement, Millenials & Home Builders
March 30, 2012
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Blogosphere: Google's Prius Drives Blind Man
Wired Autopia
Steve Mahan is clinically blind, having lost 95 percent of his vision over the course of several years. But on a sunny day in the Bay Area, the Google crew arrived to shuttle him around, running errands like the rest of us and making a trip through the Taco Bell drive-through...
Read On Blogosphere: Hate the Bus? Time to Reconsider NPR
Steve Mahan is clinically blind, having lost 95 percent of his vision over the course of several years. But on a sunny day in the Bay Area, the Google crew arrived to shuttle him around, running errands like the rest of us and making a trip through the Taco Bell drive-through...
Read On Blogosphere: Hate the Bus? Time to Reconsider NPR
News: Google Transit, TOD in Detroit, Cycling in SF, New Haven Streetcar, Lake Oswego Urban Renewal, Carmageddon, Suburban Ecological Danger
December 1, 2011
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Research: Google Transit Tool for Small Agencies
TRB
TRB's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for Transit IDEA Project 58: Google Transit Data Tool for Small Transit Agencies discusses the process, results, and work effort carried out in creating a tool to have transit information such as routes, start and stop times, trips, fares, and schedules accessible online via Google Transit..
TRB's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for Transit IDEA Project 58: Google Transit Data Tool for Small Transit Agencies discusses the process, results, and work effort carried out in creating a tool to have transit information such as routes, start and stop times, trips, fares, and schedules accessible online via Google Transit..
National: Rocky Road to Green Design
April 25, 2011|Metropolis Magazine
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It's ironic to think that some of the most pleasant and appealing structures in the U.S. have had some of the most painful births. Take Yale's Kroon Hall. This $33.5 million LEED Platinum flagship building of the University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES), opened last spring, has the comforting exterior of a classic Connecticut barn set amongst Yale Gothic... Read On
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