Blogosphere: Big Dig's Big Costs, Infrstructure Bank, Transit & Work In Dallas, Cheapness Of BRT
| 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: Boston's Big Dig Buries Other Projects Planetizen Completed years ago, the true cost of Boston's "Big Dig" is finally being tallied. Unfortunately, for residents of Massachusetts, the tab is far from paid, imperiling funding for other necessary transportation projects, reports Eric Moskowitz. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Infrastructure Bank is a Mixed Bag Transportation Issues Daily A new report concludes a federal infrastructure bank could depoliticize decisions, but would duplicate existing programs and fund few projects... Read On |
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Blogosphere: DFW Transit Doesn't Get People to Work Dallas Observer Splashed across the front page of the Morning News today, large and above the fold, is an article detailing a new Brookings Institution study that measures how well public transit connects people and jobs in the nation's 100 most populous metropolitan areas.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Density of Cycle/Car Collisions Map Grapher Here is a follow up to my post on traffic collisions with cyclists in Louisville from last February. I've mapped the point locations of all the automobile collisions with cyclists... Read On |
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Blogosphere: BRT Cheap to Build, Cheaper to Destroy Greater Greater Washington Planners often promote Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as cheap to build and more flexible than rail transit. But that flexibility also makes it even cheaper to dismantle. A stroke of the pen can completely destroy a BRT line... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Progress on HSR so Far Next American City In 2009, President Obama designated $8 billion of the over $800 billion ARRA stimulus package to go toward development of 10 high-speed rail corridors across the country. While real results are still at least a decade away, the past two years have seen some major progress in high-speed rail development... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Dutch Fast and Reliable Light Rail Portland Transport One of the first things I noticed about transit after arriving in the Netherlands was how incredibly fast the trams are here compared to their counterparts in Portland... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Suburban Kids Better with a Jumpshot? Urban and Environmental Economics This long NY Times sports piece takes you on a tour of outdoor b-ball in NYC. The author observes that suburban kids are better pure shooters than urban kids and argues that this is a causal treatment effect!.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Adjusting to Inefficient Transit in Amman The Urban Times No one can argue that efficient and reliable public transport is a major determinant of a good quality of life. For the past three years, I have been happily and comfortably living in Manchester, UK: a vibrant and ever-growing city that caters to all the needs that a student like myself may have... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bird's Eye View of Inequality in Quito The Polis Blog In a recent post, Min Li Chan referred to Tim De Chant's blog Per Square Mile, which depicts income inequality from space. This is a very interesting way of getting to know how poverty and inequality are reflected on urban form... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Can Ancient City Preserve Itself? The Atlantic Cities One of China's last intact walled cities is undergoing something of an identity crisis. Pingyao, in China's Shanxi province, has endured for 2,700 years, escaping the destruction of the Cultural Revolution... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cohousing - Secret to Sustainable Living? Grist Back in the good old days, I'm told, people lived in neighborhoods where they looked out for each other. They had potlucks, kept an eye on each other's kids, loaned out lawnmowers and cups of sugar... Read On |
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Blogosphere: California's Bankruptcy Cocktail The Atlantic Cities In the span of just 14 days, three California cities have opted to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. San Bernardino, population 209,000, part of the Southern California region known as the Inland Empire... Read On |
