News: Selling Transit, Kirkland Rail Corridor, End Of Free Ride, NY Transit Infra Fund, Atlanta Transit Plan, Oil And Transpo Funding
| Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom. |
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Charlotte: To Sell Transit, Dumb It Down Charlotte Observer We've long believed one of Pat McCrory's strengths as Charlotte mayor - and a big reason he was never really challenged in elections here - was his willingness to buck his party on issues he felt were critical to the city's future... Read On |
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Seattle: Kirkland to Consider Purchase of Rail Corridor Seattle Times Kirkland could soon become the owner of a 5- 3/4-mile rail corridor that city officials hope to turn into a biking and hiking trail that has limited views of Lake Washington... Read On |
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Portland: The Free Streetcar Rides Might Not Last Oregonian Is Portland Streetcar the Kim Kardashian of our region's transportation-industrial complex? Sure, the glossy, multicolored railcars look sexy on tourism posters... Read On |
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New York: Cuomo To Include Transit in Infra Fund Transportation Nation When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a press release describing his tax and stimulus plan this week, he sketched out an infrastructure bank that would draw funds from accelerated payments from the state, couple them with money from the Port Authority and private pension funds... Read On |
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Atlanta: Regional Transit Plan Draws Ire Atlanta Journal Constitution A panel that is drawing up plans for regional mass transit heard vivid testimony Friday from some metro Atlanta residents who fear it could damage their way of life, and from others who feared it may not be transformative enough... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Another GOP Transpo Proposal About Oil Streetsblog DC Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee have been working to find $12 billion to fund the transportation bill for the next two years. All their proposals have met with rejection from the committee's Republicans. .. Read On |
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Research: Greenwave, Environmental Gentrification City and Society Journal This essay examines the intersection of environmental justice activism and state-sponsored sustainable urban development-how is environmental justice activism enabled or disabled in the context of rapid urban development, consensual politics and the seemingly a-political language of sustainability?.. Read On |
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Research: Farmers Market in Post Industrial City City & Society A new politics of consumption is evident in the economic behavior of educated, middle-class baby-boomer women no longer willing to accept a food culture prescribed for them by the global food establishment... Read On |
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Research: How Grass Became Greener in the City City & Society Far removed from a direct connection to the land and environmental feedback, most urban inhabitants have little choice but to rely on external sources of information as they formulate their understanding of sustainability... Read On |
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National: Don't Drill for Roads National Review (via T4 America) Congress is well known for going down roads to nowhere. In the case of the upcoming highway-bill reauthorization, that may be true in a more literal sense. On this occasion, it is Republican members who have come up with a misguided piece of highway robbery that breaches their own longstanding principles. House Republicans have proposed expanding domestic fossil-fuel extraction on federal lands and in offshore areas, and depositing much of the royalty revenue into the federal Highway Trust Fund.... Read On |
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California: City of Wind Outside of Bakersfield Bakersfield Californian Two years ago Kern County supervisors blessed construction of the massive 800-megawatt Alta-Oak Creek Mojave wind energy project in the rolling hills and scrub-filled desert between Tehachapi and Mojave... Read On |
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International: Brazil's Green City Model MSNBC Just three years ago, the manmade fires here were so fierce smoke would blot out the Amazon sky, turning the days dark. Towering rainforest trees exploded in flames, their canopies cleared to let pasture grow for cattle... Read On |
