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Transport: Central Corridor Lessons, NC To Block Transit & Livability Funds, FTC Sides With Uber In Taxi Fight, Buses Vs. Streetcars

June 13, 2013
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TRANSPORT Will Central Corridor Lessons Transfer to Southwest  Twin Cities Finance and Commerce   Businesses along the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line had to sue in federal court to get the Metropolitan Council to provide an estimate of how much revenue local establishments lost during the transit line's construction.  
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Urban Issues: Nashville's Symphony Trouble, Stockton Housing Bubble, Housing Discrimination, Seattle Housing & Rail

June 12, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Nashville's Symphony In Trouble  The Urbanophile   Nashville has been on a roll in recent years, with a rapidly growing population (including a rapidly expanding immigrant base), robust job growth (#1 among large cities in 2012 on a percentage basis), and lots of positive national press.
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Transport: Columbia Crossing LRT, Roundabout Bike Bypass, Paying To Operate Dallas Streetcar Extension, FRA & Train Safety

June 11, 2013
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TRANSPORT Light Rail, Blight or Bliss?  The Columbian   Love it or hate it, light rail's tracks are firmly embedded in plans for the Columbia River Crossing. But what will that mean for Vancouver?
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Environment&Ecology: Netherlands Lost Wind Opportunity, Clean Air & Rain Fallout, Portland LRT Supercapacitors Arrive

June 7, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY The Netherlands Lost Out on Wind  Price Tags   Wind turbines are a relatively common site throughout the Netherlands - a nice contrast to the surviving windmills from previous centuries that satisfy tourist expectations.
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Transport: Private LRT Extension Plans, Bike Guidelines Outdated, Infrastructure Hawk, How SLT Became Transit Leader

June 6, 2013
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TRANSPORT Virginia Beach Considers Private Light Rail Ideas  Virginian Pilot   A private-sector proposal to extend light rail into Virginia Beach merits a closer look and competing ideas will be welcomed, the City Council informally decided Tuesday.  
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CTOD Releases Report Examining Opportunities And Challenges Involved In Promoting TOD

May 29, 2013
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Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has been embraced around the country as a means to achieve sustainability goals, including reduced auto dependency and traffic congestion, as well as improved economic competitiveness. However, the process of actually implementing TOD varies based on a variety of physical, economic, and market conditions.
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Downtowns, Greenfields and Places In Between: Promoting Development Near Transit

May 29, 2013
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Introduction Transit-oriented development (TOD) – typically defined as compact, mixed-use development within walking distance of a transit station – has emerged in recent years as a key strategy for fostering quality neighborhoods and reducing auto dependence. Despite the emphasis on TOD in many policy discussions, however, only limited information is available to help communities understand the likely development impacts of new transit investments. This report builds on a 2010 study by the Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), Rails to Real Estate: Development Patterns along Three Recently Constructed Rail Lines, to examine the opportunities and challenges involved in promoting TOD in different types of neighborhoods, and the strategies that may be appropriate to catalyze TOD depending on the neighborhood context. By examining development patterns and public investment strategies through the lens of “development context” or “neighborhood type,” this report…
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Environment & Ecology: Human Macroecology, Boston's Green Housing Plan, City Horticulture, Lessons From '70s Ecotopia

May 29, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY The Emerging Field of Human Macroecology  Scientific American   Sustainability efforts have been on the cultural radar for many years. Increasingly, cultural norms instruct us to turn off the lights when leaving a room, drive a smaller car, recycle as much as possible
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Transport: NYC Bike Share, Virginia Beach Private LRT Questions, SF Taxi Industry, Building New RR Under NYC

May 28, 2013
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TRANSPORT Giving Citi Bike an Early Tryout  NY Streetsblog   Today, New Yorkers turned out under sunny skies to try out bike-share for the first time.
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Transport: I-5 Bridge Collapse, Bikeshare & Bike Ownership, Empty Infrastructure, Cleveland 'Opportunity Corridor'

May 24, 2013
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TRANSPORT Section of I-5 Bridge Collapses in Washington State  Los Angeles Times   Nobody dies as people and vehicles are plunged into the Skagit River. Witnesses say an oversize load on a truck hit the bridge before a large section collapsed.
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