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All the Transit and TOD News That's Fit to Print or Blog
These links to news stories and blog posts about transit and TOD are collected daily by Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's GIS specialist and a passionate transit advocate. Jeff's entire post plus commentary is sent by email to members of Reconnecting America (to join visit our Get Connected page); the first five articles of his daily post (which sometimes contains as many as two dozen links) are available here to nonmembers without his commentary.
Cincinnati: Groups Aims to Stop Constant Referendums
Cincinnati Business Journal
As far as Rob Richardson, Bobby Maly and Joe Sprengard are
concerned, the streetcar ballot initiative isn't about the city's $200
million streetcar proposal, not at all. The ballot language would require a majority vote of the people
before Cincinnati city government could proceed with any kind of
passenger rail service or planning throughout the city. And that, they
argue, could stop economic progress dead in its tracks...
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Detroit: Moving Light Rail Forward
Detroit News
Leaders of a $125 million light rail project said Thursday they have
reached an agreement to collaborate with the city on a three-mile plan
to link city riders in a local transit system. The privately
funded M-1 Rail, an approximately 3.4 mile, 12-stop route from Hart
Plaza to Grand Boulevard, would be the "first phase" of a Detroit
Department of Transportation's proposed $371 million project. That
plan, the Detroit Transit Options for Growth, calls for a light rail to
extend from Grand to Eight Mile, said Matthew Cullen, M-1 project
president and CEO...
San Francisco: New District Fees for TBT
San Francisco Chronicle
Developers who construct skyscrapers and other buildings near the new
Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco will have to pay up to $850
million in extra fees over a 20-year period, according to a city
proposal announced Thursday.....
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Blogosphere: GHG Charts
Urban Transport
Following chart is found at two locations (EIA and Perot Charts). The text is from the Perot Charts...
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Blogosphere: Move the Cincy Streetcar Forward
City Beat
Let's stop being a town of shoulda, woulda, coulda.
With
Cincinnati City Councilwoman Leslie Ghiz's announcement May 19 that she
no longer supports the city's streetcar initiative, she joins
Republican colleague Chris Monzel, who never liked the idea from the
beginning. And that stinks. ...
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