Blogosphere: BRT Vs Rail In Hawaii, Transit Fun Factor, PPPs & HSR, Amtrak 'Ride With Pride', Olympic Legacies
August 2, 2012
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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: BRT Vs Rail Debate In Hawaii Honolulu Civil Beat Former Hawaii Governor and Honolulu mayoral hopeful Ben Cayetano might be on to something. Cayetano, who is running against Mayor Peter Carlisle and former Managing Director Kirk Caldwell, is opposed to Honolulu's controversial $5.2 billion rail project. No secret there. But Cayetano's proposed alternative to rail, bus rapid transit, or BRT, is becoming more attractive to cities across the U.S.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Transit Needs A Sense Of Fun Better Cities & Towns Make the transit experience a thing of joy, advises Darrin Nordahl, author of Island Press's ebook Making Transit Fun: How to Entice Motorists from Their Cars (and Onto Their Feet, a Bike, or Bus).... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Are PPPs The Way To Fund HSR International Railway Journal FUNDING the construction of high-speed lines was widely discussed at the UIC's eighth world congress on high-speed rail staged in Philadelphia, United States, last month. This is hardly surprising considering the strain on governments reeling under a mountain of debt and banks struggling to stay afloat in the current economic crisis.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Amtrak 'Ride With Pride' Campaign Examiner.com You may have missed this story in the flock of news reports surrounding the ongoing Chick-fil-A controversy but Amtrak is taking a stand and marketing directly to the gay market when other companies are alienating themselves from the demographic.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Ranking New York's Subway Lines 2nd Ave Sagas From Coney Island to Astoria via Canal St., the Q train offers up a culinary tour of New York City. The train starts at Nathan's, stops a few blocks from DiFara's, swings past Chinatown and ends in a hot bed of Greek dining. One day, it'll service the Upper East Side too via that Second Ave. Subway. It is also, according to the latest edition of the Straphangers' State of the Subway report, the best train in the city.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why HSR Is Good For Minnesota Grand Rapids Herald Review Recent developments might have some Minnesotans questioning the level of support for high-speed rail in the Midwest and in Minnesota. First, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, not always a fan of high-speed rail, was reaffirmed by Wisconsin voters in the recall election. Then, the Anoka County Board voted to leave the coalition of governments looking into development of the Northern Lights Express (NLX) high-speed rail project from Minneapolis to Duluth.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Highway-Like Highway Replacement Streetsblog When Oklahoma City announced plans in 1998 to tear down the I-40 Crosstown Expressway near downtown, they envisioned a grand, tree-lined, at-grade boulevard that would help improve development prospects in the already resurgent "Core to Shore" area between downtown and the Oklahoma River. The route would be part of the planned five-mile streetcar corridor, buttressed by a 40-acre "central park" fit for the capital, the largest city in the state. But the state Department of Transportation had something different in mind. ... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Journey To Sustainable Entrepreneurship Urban Times Germany-based Sabine Ivey-Frank is a self-described mechanical engineer and industrial designer, by trade, yet her passion lies in her home business: the aptly named, recycled children's clothing company, Relovable.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Spending Cuts Dampen Recovery MetroTrends Blog On Friday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first look at Gross Domestic Product and its components for the second quarter of the year plus revisions going back to 2009. Those data confirmed that weak government spending continues to hamper the economy. In the second quarter, government spending declines subtracted more than a quarter point from GDP growth, almost exclusively from the state and local government sector.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Legacies From Olympic Games This Big City The first Olympic Games to make a profit since 1932, the LA games changed the way modern Olympics were run. The city made adjustments to existing stadia - constructing only the velodrome and aquatics centre specifically for the Games - helping bring the total profit of operating the Games to $222.7 million, with wider economic impact for Southern California estimated at $3.3 billion.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Selling Points For Rapid Transit Infra Urban Indy The GAO study touched on all manner of operational parameters as well as capital expenditures in coming to its conclusions on what constitutes a successful BRT system. The report is very telling in that it lends Federal credibility to many of the same items that active transportation advocates use as selling points for rapid transit infrastructure.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Georgraphy Of Bars & Restaurants Atlantic Cities Some cities actually do have a bar on every corner, and real-estate website Trulia set out to find out where they are.... Read On |
