News: CAHSR Blessing, Elecric Freight, TOD Impact On VMT, Light Rail Benefits Research, Berlin's Cheap Rents, Portland Downtown
May 17, 2012
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California: HSR Project Given Conditional Blessing
Sacramento Bee
The latest plan for building a California bullet train system got a very conditional blessing Tuesday from a "peer review committee" of transportation experts...
Read On Los Angeles: An Electric Solution for Freeway Freight Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles may be one of the first…
The latest plan for building a California bullet train system got a very conditional blessing Tuesday from a "peer review committee" of transportation experts...
Read On Los Angeles: An Electric Solution for Freeway Freight Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles may be one of the first…
Blogosphere: Light Rail & Racial Justice, Car Sharing Impact, Traffic Fatality & Poverty, Complete Streets For All, Bike Share Parking
May 16, 2012
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Blogosphere: Light Rail and Racial Justice
Sightline Daily
Anyone familiar with Seattle's Rainier Valley knows it's a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically...
Read On Blogosphere: Car Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions DC Streetsblog
The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It…
Anyone familiar with Seattle's Rainier Valley knows it's a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically...
Read On Blogosphere: Car Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions DC Streetsblog
The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It…
News: Chicago Bus Lanes, Vancouver BRT, CAHSR Numbers, Caltrain Electrification, Gainesville Transit Taxes, London Smart City Test
May 4, 2012
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Chicago: Bus Only Lanes Are Coming Soon
Chicago Sun Times
Bus rapid transit is coming to Chicago. Within two years, CTA bus riders will get their own lane to get through the throngs of traffic near Union Station and the Ogilvie Transportation Center...
Read On Vancouver WA: BRT Plan Gets the Green Light Columbian
A citizens committee Wednesday signaled it's on board for bus rapid transit…
Bus rapid transit is coming to Chicago. Within two years, CTA bus riders will get their own lane to get through the throngs of traffic near Union Station and the Ogilvie Transportation Center...
Read On Vancouver WA: BRT Plan Gets the Green Light Columbian
A citizens committee Wednesday signaled it's on board for bus rapid transit…
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…
Blogosphere: State Vs. Local In Virginia, Infrastructure Funding Vs. Financing, KC Transit Manifesto, Mapping Space Syntax, White Roof Global Impact
April 17, 2012
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Virginia: Plan Would Let State Override Local Plans
Greater Greater Washington
It's time for Virginia residents to storm the harbor of their state capitol and throw the tea overboard. Last week, Governor Bob McDonnell signed a transportation bill that massively expands the hand of government and overrides local decisions about how communities should grow and change. How's that for big government? ..
Read On Blogosphere: Fantasy…
It's time for Virginia residents to storm the harbor of their state capitol and throw the tea overboard. Last week, Governor Bob McDonnell signed a transportation bill that massively expands the hand of government and overrides local decisions about how communities should grow and change. How's that for big government? ..
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Blogosphere: Freeway Removal Opportunity, De-Bikification Of Beijing, Exurban Decline, Urban Forests, Rural Housing Finance
April 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: Freeway Removal Creates Opportunity
The City Fix
The famed U.S. intellectual Lewis Mumford once said, "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." The recently released report on freeway removal from by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and EMBARQ (the producer of this blog) seems to be getting a bit closer to that ideal..
Read On Blogosphere: De-Bikification of Beijing …
The famed U.S. intellectual Lewis Mumford once said, "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." The recently released report on freeway removal from by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and EMBARQ (the producer of this blog) seems to be getting a bit closer to that ideal..
Read On Blogosphere: De-Bikification of Beijing …
News: Federal Transpo Extension, Twin Cities LRT Extension, Caltrain Electrification, Easing Calif. Enviro Rules For HSR, City Heat Stress
March 29, 2012
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National: House GOP is Back to 90 Day Extension
DC Streetsblog
Another day, another another twist in the House's efforts to pass a transportation bill. Yesterday's postponed vote on a 60-day extension had initially been rescheduled for tonight, but that too will be scrapped, making it the third time the House has punted a vote on an extension in as many days...
Read On National: LaHood - Boehner Needs to Lead …
Another day, another another twist in the House's efforts to pass a transportation bill. Yesterday's postponed vote on a 60-day extension had initially been rescheduled for tonight, but that too will be scrapped, making it the third time the House has punted a vote on an extension in as many days...
Read On National: LaHood - Boehner Needs to Lead …
News: NY MTA Financing, San Diego BRT Debate, Colorado Fastracks Audit, Dense California Cities, Climate Change & Poor Countries
March 28, 2012
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New York: MTA Financing Shored Up
New York Times
New York State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have reached an agreement to finance the remaining three years of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five-year capital plan, preserving some of the region's largest transportation projects, transportation officials said Monday. ..
Read On National: Dems Trip Up GOP on Extension Transportation Nation
For the…
New York State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have reached an agreement to finance the remaining three years of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five-year capital plan, preserving some of the region's largest transportation projects, transportation officials said Monday. ..
Read On National: Dems Trip Up GOP on Extension Transportation Nation
For the…
News: Bay Area Commuter Rail Deal, Quake Shakes Mexico Subway, Dallas TOD Slow, Kansas City Streetcar Funds, Shallow Tunnel Savings
March 26, 2012
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California: Peninsula Deal Has Some Perks
San Francisco Chronicle
That just-announced pact to plow $1.5 billion in high-speed rail money into electrifying Caltrain comes with some mighty major side deals - including a pledge by Bay Area leaders to build a 1.2-mile tunnel through downtown San Francisco to connect the line to the new Transbay Terminal...
Read On International: Mexico Subways Suffer from Earthquake Transportation Nation
A…
That just-announced pact to plow $1.5 billion in high-speed rail money into electrifying Caltrain comes with some mighty major side deals - including a pledge by Bay Area leaders to build a 1.2-mile tunnel through downtown San Francisco to connect the line to the new Transbay Terminal...
Read On International: Mexico Subways Suffer from Earthquake Transportation Nation
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Blogosphere: Bike Riding Customers, CAHSR Greenlight, LA Model Transit Effort, Profitable Passenger Trains, Rural Affordability, Picturing Walkable Streets
March 26, 2012
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