Blogosphere: City's Bike Usage Video, House Conference Work, Voting On Job Access In Atlanta, Bus & Rail Mantras
May 22, 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: What Big City Transportation Officials Want Transportation Issues Daily The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) was founded to help key large cities have a "meaningful political and technical relationship with each other on transportation-related issues, and to develop a stronger critical relationship with USDOT... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Day in the Life of City's Bike Usage Grist This video is probably what Ralph Steadman sees when he takes half a tab of acid and looks at a map of Budapest, but it's also a data visualization of the city's bike usage during a 24-hour period... Read On |
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Blogosphere: House Tries to Work Will in Conference DC Streetsblog The 47 members of the transportation bill conference committee have a lot on their plates: The Senate's MAP-21 bill includes many provisions Republicans don't like, the House slapped controversial "poison pills" onto its non-bill, and chair Barbara Boxer wants this all wrapped up in a few weeks... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Much Will $6B Improve Access to Jobs Streetsblog.net We've written a few times about how transit referendums need a simple, to-the-point message summarizing what voters can expect to receive in return. Here's how they're doing it in Atlanta... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Vancouver's Frequent Network Map Human Transit The Wayfinding team at Vancouver's TransLink has finally unveiled their new network map, with Frequent Network designations. In this case...orange:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Connecting Employment Means Ridership The Atlantic Cities At first glance Broward County, Florida, doesn't look like the friendliest place for public transportation. The metro area just north of Miami has a couple downtown areas - Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Brown - Plant the Seeds of Growth for HSR California HSR Blog Last week Governor Jerry Brown appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss the state budget deficit and the high speed rail project. Governor Brown defended the HSR project as "planting the seeds for future growth":.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bus and Rail Mantras Pedestrian Observations Bus is cheaper than rail. Paint is cheap. Rail only made sense a hundred years ago when construction costs were lower. Trains have no inherent advantage over buses. It doesn't cost more to operate a bus than to operate a train... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Value of Value Capture Streetsblog DC Today we spend money on infrastructure in the hopes of creating growth. That's backwards. Infrastructure should not be a catalyst for growth but something that emerges in support of productive patterns of development. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Metropolitan Nature of IPOs The New Republic Facebook's IPO (Initial Public Offering) is projected to value the company at $104 billion. Reportedly, only Visa has had a larger IPO. Only time will tell if Facebook is really worth such an astronomical sum, but one thing about it is not all extraordinary: Its location in the Bay Area. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: LAs Original Subway Gelato Baby (via @thetransitfan) By now almost everyone knows (I hope!) that LA has a subway system. But did you know that this is not the first subway that LA has ever had?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Village Where Houses are Instruments Grist The Music Box is a New Orleans art installation that makes regular artist's colonies look like Camazotz. In this tiny shantytown, every building is also a musical instrument, and the entire town can be played in a beautiful, spooky symphony that looks and sounds like something out of Coraline... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Livable Communities for Whom LA Streetsblog When environmental advocates talk about urban sustainability, we often focus on how people use space and how we can encourage design that has a lesser impact on the environment. How do people get around, are there single or mixed use developments, how can we minimize commutes between work, the grocery store, and home?... Read On |
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Blogosphere: When An Earthquake Meets Old Buildings The Atlantic Cities The impact of the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Italy's Emilia-Romagna region on Sunday appears to have been made worse by the fact that significant seismic activity is rare there... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Are Neighborhoods Fighting Reform Next American City During a discussion about efforts to reform Seattle's land use regulations, I was reminded of the taxonomy that divides the city's most influential constituencies into four: Labor, neighborhoods, developers and environmentalists... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Overbuilding Seattle May Be a Good Idea Seattle Land Use Code Among the more risible arguments advanced by the anti-growth crowd is that somehow by allowing more development in Seattle we will end up overbuilt, with too many housing units and not enough people to fill them... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Right Way to Zone for TOD The Atlantic Cities Two years ago, I wrote a short article titled "Transit-oriented development requires more than transit and development." My point was that to maximize the powerful potential of public transportation to reduce automobile dependence and associated environmental impacts, we should be thoughtful about it... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Classifying the Built Environment Zones The Urban Times Each day countless commuters trek through the commuter zone to the CBD, from T3 to T6, from "MSA but not in a central city" to "central city of an MSA," from residential subdivision to financial district, from sparsely populated to densely populated, and from suburban to urban core... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Rise of the Mini Home This Big City I've written before about how much I enjoy living in a small home in a walkable neighbourhood. Apparently I am not the only one. Real estate trends, urban planning theorists, and architects in North America are coming to the realization that more and more young people - Generation Y - and even their soon-to-be-empty nest parents, want a smaller home... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Plant Tags for Urban Objects Pop Up City This is for all the urban gardeners out there. No, I don't mean actual gardening in the city: Carmichael Collective (yes, the insect memorial folks) have been placing their Urban Plant Tags around Minneapolis lately... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mapping Global Water Stress The Atlantic Cities Water scarcity is likely to be one of the great problems facing the planet this century. Various risk factors contribute to the scarcity of clean water. A new mapping tool from the World Resources Institute visualizes how those risk factors can combine to create large problems... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Facebook Effect on SF Real Estate The Basis Point (via @thomashawk) Three weeks ago some clients wrote a $1.25m offer on a 1400 square foot 3-bed, 1-bath house with original kitchen and bath near San Francisco's Dolores Park. They weren't even close. There were 51 offers. It sold for $1.4m and closed 8 days after offers were due... Read On |
