Blogosphere: CEQA For Bikes, Slowing Traffic, Cutting Car Dependence, Clackamas LRT Vote, New Urbanism In Portland, Bagota's Transformation
August 30, 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: Bill Would Streamline CEQA for Bikes SF Streetsblog More good bike news from the California legislature this week: The extensive and costly environmental reviews required for on-street bike lanes would be streamlined under a bill approved unanimously by the State Assembly on Monday... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Slow Traffic, Put Stuff in the Way Joe Urban One of my favorite comedy bits is Robin Williams having an imaginary conversation with a Scotsman about how the Scots invented golf. You can view it on YouTube here (the key to this post occurs at 1:21), and it goes something like this:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cutting Car Dependence, Common Sense Greater Greater Washington Cleveland Park resident Herb Caudill posted about the zoning update on the neighborhood listserv, and triggered a lively debate. On the issue of required parking, one resident wrote about "the growing hostility toward the automobile,".. Read On |
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Editorial: Clackamas County's Light Rail Rebels Portland Oregonian Ballots will begin their journey to Clackamas County mailboxes Friday, offering voters a chance to rebuff county commissioners and, perhaps, prevent the devotion of nearly $20 million in county funds to the controversial Portland-to-Milwaukie light rail line... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Frequent Network That Goes Downtown Human Transit Monday (in Australia) I shared a new frequent network diagram for Sydney, done not by the government but by a community transport organization. In Adelaide, meanwhile, the government released a new frequent network diagram in July... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How New Urbanism Affected Portland Daily Blog New Urbanism is an appropriately named movement within the history of American city development. It celebrates the good things that make cities vibrant, comfortable and healthy places to live, work and play. The movement has made people more aware of what they like about cities and how we can do a better job of planning to achieve much more livable communities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Chattanooga Invented Font to Spur Growth Smithsonian Some cities have historical legacies or famous features that give them a clear identity in people's minds. But most have to work at it. And while a city is a much more complex entity than a corporation, the process of bestowing a metropolis with a recognizable identity is much like branding a consumer good... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Limousine Liberal, Bruce McCall Streetsblog The term "limousine liberal," first used against Mayor John Lindsay in 1969, was intended to call out hypocrisy among elites who, for example, urged support for transit but instead relied on private cars to get themselves around New York... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why California Is Adding Jobs Faster The Atlantic Cities After the Great Recession, it became something of a sport among policy nerds to compare the relative merits of Texas' and California's economies. Think Goofus and Gallant, with high-unemployment, big government-loving California as the former, and low-regulation, job-creating Texas as the latter... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Metro Jobs and Educational Attainment Brookings For the first time since World War II, there are fewer jobs three years after the end of a recession than before it began. Our new Brookings report suggests that most of this flat recovery can be attributed to severe losses in housing wealth and jobs in industries such as manufacturing and construction... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Film - Bogota's Urban Transformation The City Fix I recently watched "Bogotá Change," a film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival under a film series titled "Cities on Speed." The video below is a trailer for the four films, covering urban challenges in Mumbai, Shanghai, Cairo and Bogota... Read On |
