Blogosphere: Transit Costs, Urban Density, Sculpting Cities, Managing Diversity, Pop-Up Cafe, Indy Transit Plan, Performance Parking
December 14, 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: Cost Concerns, Reasonable or Otherwise Pedestrian Observations Stephen Smith's recent post excoriating high US transit costs left me with a weird feeling that took me a while to figure out exactly. The feeling is primarily about the attitude, but the most telling quote about it is the following attack on East Side Access... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Density is Not Destiny Price Tags "The carbon devil," says Griffith U urban researcher Jago Dodson, "is in the detail on urban density.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Sculpting the History of Cities Atlantic Cities A city is shape and form, but also politics and history-qualities hard to capture in a map. But with his paper sculptures of cities, artist Matthew Picton delves into not only the physical form of a city, but the historic, political and even cultural elements that give form and feeling to a city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Challenge of Managing Diversity Atlantic Cities Every time I travel abroad, I return with a different perspective on my home. That was especially true when I visited Karachi, Pakistan... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Day In the Life of a Pop Up Cafe Walkable DFW Location matters, of course. Integration --> Accommodation --> Decoration. Though this is more of a parklet than it is cafe space for the restaurant that paid for it... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Indy Transit Plan Headed to Statehouse Urban Indy Today, the final Indyconnect plan was released for public review. The plan released today, is the plan that officials will be taking with them when they go to the statehouse in the 2012 short session. Included in this plan are pieces of the former two releases but with some notable changes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tax Cuts With Side of Infrastructure DC Streetsblog Congress has already delayed their holiday recess by a week, and members are hoping another delay won't be necessary. Among the yet-unfinished business: an extension of the payroll tax cut... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Performance Parking Less Responsive Greater Greater Washington Perfomance parking has not has as big an impact as was expected in San Francisco. Even with high rates, popular blocks still fill up, and other blocks remain under-filled even at low prices... Read On |
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Blogosphere: St. Paul's Post Ford Future Twin City Sidewalks St Paul's Ford plant (along Ford Parkway between the Ford bridge and the Ford dam) is finally shutting down for good this week after a prolonged twilight run of Ranger pickups... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Banking Committee to Vote on Transit DC Streetsblog If the Banking Committee is going to make any progress on the transit section of the Senate transportation bill, it's going to have to happen before this weekend, when Congress leaves for the holiday recess and doesn't come back till late January... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Fighting Job Sprawl The Atlantic Cities In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are three main downtowns: San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. And while these are still civic and even cultural centers, they've been losing jobs for years... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Time to Get Rid of Charlotte's Noose Naked City Blog Is Charlotte finally making a move toward taming the uptown noose - I mean, the uptown loop? The freeway encircling uptown, made up of Interstate 277 and a section of Interstate 77, strangles uptown, eliminating easy pedestrian and bicycle connections and creating bottlenecks for traffic flow into and out of the center city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Stadium Seats for Bus Benches The Urbanophile The first Bush Stadium seats have been installed at the corner of Alabama and Vermont Streets. The official unveiling was took place at 10:00, and I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the event.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Biking to Meet Europe's GHG Reductions The City Fix The climate change policy talks in Durban finally wrapped up and participating nations agreed to pursue a new course of action in the global fight against climate change. Despite the inspiring agreement, one thing is still unclear and that is the strategy with which the world's nations will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve limited temperature rise... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Pedestrians at Risk in Our Cities Urban Indy It's no secret that pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries have been rising in our cities. As more people explore active transportation options they are coming into conflict with vehicular traffic... Read On |
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Opinion: Time for Derailing HSR Not Here Sacramento Bee California's high-speed rail project has made significant progress in the past three months. That came through at a state Senate hearing last Monday. Ridership estimates have been revised to be more conservative... Read On |
