Blogosphere: Human Transit, Twitter Places, Highway Excess, Urban Grocery, War On Cars, Tiny Houses, Smart Growth, Climate Change, Biz Clusters
December 8, 2011
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| Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. |
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Blogosphere: Washington Post Gets Condescending Forbes It's no surprise that a lot of politicians and policymakers believe that America's biggest infrastructure problem is insufficient taxpayer funding. But never have I seen it expressed so condescendingly as in a Washington Post article published yesterday in the PostLocal section.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Strengths of Buses and Trains Willamette Week Jarrett Walker says he first fell in love with mass transit when he started riding buses around Portland at age 10. By age 14, he was calling TriMet to ask questions and offer suggestions for improvement. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Twitter Proves Place Matters The Atlantic Twitter is a fascinating place to explore not just the connectedness of people but of places. In a previous post, I mapped the locations of the 500 leading "Twitterati.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Senate Seeking Too Much Hwy Money DC Streetsblog Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and his Finance Committee have been looking high and low for a $12 billion patch to fund the transportation reauthorization bill that passed the Senate EPW Committee a few weeks ago. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Grocery Stores Joe Urban Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn't easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential units on the site at the same time is particularly daunting... Read On |
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Blogosphere: There is No War on Cars Streetsblog.net With 4,000 miles of streets and most of Chicago paved over to accommodate cars, it's hard to fathom how adding protected bike lanes and bus lanes to a tiny percentage of streets will force people out of their cars, as John McCarron insinuated in his article last week in the Chicago Tribune.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tiny Houses and Big Dreams Rooflines Not long ago I was part of a conversation with a builder who wanted to put some tiny houses on some tiny lots. The lots had been in existence for some 50 years, never developed because their size made them impractical in the rural setting of Central Virginia. A well and septic would hardly fit, let alone a house, yard, driveway and picket fence... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Smart Growth Goes Mainstream ASLA Dirt At the 10th annual smart growth awards held at the E.P.A. headquarters in Washington D.C., Doug McKalip, White House Senior Policy Advisor for Rural Affairs, praised this year's winners for demonstrating strategies that create jobs, protect the environment, and improve the quality of life... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why I Love My City The Atlantic Cities Five years after the break-up of Sleater-Kinney, Carrie Brownstein has found a new creative outlet in her role on IFC's Portlandia (as well as joining a new band, Wild Flag)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Waterfront Streetcar Data Seattle Transit Blog Since there's a sizable contingent of readers interested in fighting over the Waterfront Streetcar, STB alum Brian Bundridge sends along information on how the waterfront streetcar turned into bus route 99, which I should caution isn't quite directly comparable:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Missing Link of Climate Change The Atlantic Cities Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently published a projection in the journal Science of what it would take for California, by 2050, to reach the state's goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Place Still Important for Biz Clusters Area Development It may seem hard to believe in this age of the Internet and virtual reality, but anything can't be anywhere. Despite the emergence of a global economy, regional and statewide economic initiatives based on industry clustering have taken hold, proving the importance of place as a trigger for bolstering economic development and business success... Read On |
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Blogosphere: FDOT Says Don't Walk Transit Miami Is Miami a city of traffic corridors and highways or is it a city for people? At the latest FDOT public meeting, the message from the Florida Department of Transportation is clear: Miami is for cars. Everything and everyone else comes 2nd... Read On |
