Blogosphere: Congress' Transpo Failure, Seattle Parking Rates, Urban Ghost Towns, Land-Use Planning By Lawsuit, Miami Zoning Lessons
April 3, 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: Congress Again Fails on Infrastructure Washington Post Wonkbook On Friday, President Obama signed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. Odds are you didn't hear about it. There wasn't a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, and no one on the Hill rushed to the cameras to take the credit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Revenue After Parking Rate Increase DC Streetsblog Parking reformers, this is one you're going to want to bookmark. The announcement that Seattle would be raising parking rates in certain neighborhoods was greeted with a good bit of teeth gnashing - and that continues, especially among some business owners... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Proposed Fed Safety Regs Under Scrutiny DC Streetsblog In June 2009, a fatal crash on the D.C. Metro prompted federal lawmakers to consider adding a new layer of transit safety oversight. Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, introduced the National Metro Safety Act of 2009 to establish national safety standards for transit systems... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Everything You Wanted to Know About BRT The Atlantic Cities If you're a Bus Rapid Transit believer, here's the dream - a commute around town that is as efficient as a train without the cost of finding the land, laying the tracks, acquiring the train cars and building the stations... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Return of Private Passenger Rail Service? National Review The Florida East Coast Railway, a legendary company that played a key role in spurring the state's population boom in the first decades of the last century, has announced ambitious plans for passenger rail service between Miami and Orlando.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Aotea Station Redevelopment Auckland (NZ) Transport Blog This post is the first of three that will focus on the proposed stations that are to be constructed as part of the City Rail Link project: Aotea Station, K Road Station and Newton Station... Read On |
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Blogosphere: If Washington Can't Go, Chicago Will The Transport Politic Though the details are not yet in full view, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to spend $7.2 billion over the next three years on infrastructure upgrades represents a truly significant advance in the field of municipal investment in the United States... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Highlighting Transp/Health Link Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The County Health Roadmaps project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Public Health Institute, includes efforts to build connections within and between local communities and national partners, including grants to coalitions across the U.S... Read On |
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Editorial: Land Use Planning by Lawsuit is Wrong Press Democrat The five-year saga of a Petaluma couple seeking to relocate their dental practices to another medical building on Petaluma's west side has finally come to a close, underscoring how - with enough resistance, money and lawyers - local land use laws can be trampled and ultimately overridden... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities Menacing Without People The Atlantic Cities When you think of ghost towns, your mind doesn't typically gravitate to New York, Paris, and Beijing. Yet that's what these thriving metropolises have become in the hands of Lucie & Simon, a Paris-based art duo behind the apocalyptic photo series, "Silent World.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Midwestern Economic Miscalculation The Atlantic Cities All over the Midwest, cities and towns are embracing new growth in their traditional industries with relief and delight. In northern Minnesota, iron ore has made a comeback. In Youngstown, Ohio, a new $650 million steel plant is under construction... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Real Estate Market Segmentation Seattle Transit Blog In liberal Seattle, almost everyone agrees that affordable housing is important, although people are as not as quick to speak well of its cousin, reduced housing prices... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Revitalize Our Building Stock, Economy Rooflines For the same reason that many admire the Flatiron building in New York City, I had a special affinity for one of the original Jos. A. Schlitz taverns in Milwaukee. Some will review the enclosed photos and wonder how one could ever compare the two... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lessons on Zoning from Miami Metropolis Magazine POV I've heard zoning called a lot of things: an invisible hand that shapes the city, a legal framework for protecting property investments, and the primary tool for protecting communities and culture... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why China Lags on Innovation/Creativity The Atlantic Cities China's rise as an economic power has been staggering. Its manufacturing prowess is well-established, having earned it the moniker, "the world's factory." .. Read On |
