Blogosphere: Politics of Transpo Funding, Southeast Fort Worth Line, Schoolyard Parks, Transit Desert, Narrow Streets, Sticky Pollution Solution, HUD Grants
November 23, 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: Senate Bill's Transit Section Look? Streetsblog DC Though the House Republicans are stealing the show these days with their endeavor to tie infrastructure funding to oil drilling, let's not forget there's a serious, bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill out there that actually has a chance of passage: the Senate's MAP-21... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Red and Blue Models are Broken Salon In a series of posts at his blog, Via Meadia, he argues that the blue social model of liberal cities like New York and San Francisco is doomed. That model depended on taxing a small number of super-rich rentiers in the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) sector to fund generous public services for the urban poor... Read On |
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Editorial: Southeast Fort Worth Line Makes Sense Star-Telegram About this time last year, Fort Worth's grand plan to create a 3-mile streetcar system was coming to a screeching halt. It had become clear to some that the $88 million cost was too high; the proposed service -- between the medical district, downtown and Trinity River Vision -- was too limited.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Using Schoolyards for Parks The Atlantic Cities After the final bell rings and the kids clear out, schools are basically empty. So are their playgrounds. For cities with low access to parks and open spaces, these areas present opportunities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: New York Transit Deserts Streetsblog Much progress has been madein the five years since Scott Stringer's first transportation conference, but many transit riders are still wandering in the "transportation deserts" that were the focus of one afternoon panel at the Manhattan borough president's follow-up event, Transportation 2030, this past Friday... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Atlanta Then and Now The Atlantic Cities In 1864, General Sherman of the Union ordered his troops to burn Atlanta to the ground, sparing only churches and hospitals along their way to Savannah. Upon the completion of the Civil War, reconstruction efforts began throughout the south... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Jane Jacobs on Narrow Streets Old Urbanist It's the rare observation about urbanism which one won't find already made, or anticipated, somewhere in the writings of Jane Jacobs. It's no surprise, therefore, to find that Jacobs was also one of the first writers to make a case for the functional benefits of narrow streets... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Reducing Air Pollution with Glue? Atlantic Cities London's got a sticky solution for its air pollution problems. For the past few months, the city has been capturing particulate matter and other auto emissions by spaying an adhesive onto the ground in areas with high rates of air pollution... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Americans Stuck Where They Are Atlantic Cities The share of Americans moving hit a new low this past year, according to the Census Bureau (via The New York Times' Economix blog). Just 11.6 percent of Americans moved their residences between spring 2010 and spring 2011, less than the then record low of 11.9 that was recorded in 2008... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Broadband Uses for Cities Atlantic Cities One day, a group of officials in Chattanooga, Tennessee, got an idea. They were going to go down to the Tennessee riverfront and count ducks. Depending on your interest in ducks, this could be interpreted as a wasteful venture... Read On |
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Blogosphere: HUD Grants Help Pursue Sustainability NRDC Switchboard This is exactly how the federal government should be supporting sustainability: helping communities who want to do the right thing for their environments, economies, and residents... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Transportation Costs Too Much Transportationist When I was growing up (in suburban Maryland), there was an ad on local TV from Crown Books. Founder Robert Haft asserted "books cost too much", which led him to create Crown Books, and helped put independent booksellers out of business decades before Amazon became villain #1 among the literati. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: When Zoning Codes Make Things Worse Orphan Road The intersection at 23rd & Union has a storied past, but also a troubled one. In 2008, after Degene Barecha was killed while working at the Philly Cheese Steak restaurant on the corner... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Feds Deliver Billion for CA HSR California HSR Blog Today the US Department of Transportation put another $928 million into the hands of the California high speed rail project and out of the reach of House Republicans:.. Read On |
