Blogosphere: Federal Funding Swap, Toronto Transit Future, Caltrain Ridership Example, Density Benefits, Healthy Parks
August 7, 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: 'Grand Swap' For Transportation Funding National Journal Transportation Experts Blog In the search for a transportation funding solution, an old idea is getting new play: hand responsibility for Medicaid fully to the federal government, freeing up state resources to take on education and infrastructure.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Toronto Fears Atlanta's Fate Toronto Star One's known for Coca-Cola and the Braves; the other for multiculturalism and the Leafs. Atlanta and Toronto have a great many differences, but they share a crippling problem of traffic gridlock that threatens their economic well-being.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Caltrain Ridership Means For CAHSR California High Speed Rail Blog Proving once again that Californians are hungry for more passenger rail service, Caltrain is posting big ridership gains in recent months, leading to a restoration of previously cut service as trains grow more crowded:... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Crowdsourcing Public Engagement Talking Transportation Imagine with me for a moment. We are miners looking for gold. We have heard stories of a huge mother lode in the nearby hills, but we have no idea of its specific location. It could take us a long time, if not our entire lives, to find that mother lode - if it really actually exists at all.... Read On |
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Video: Cyclist Vs. Elephant Atlantic Cities Below is a video of a decidedly under-looked commuter issue: the lane-hogging elephant.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Density Benefits Beyond Climate Change Seattle's Land Use Code What are the values that support living in the city? What, besides the many environmental reasons, makes density something we need to press for whenever we can? Is the only reason density advocates urge more people in a smaller space because of climate change? The overwhelming quantitative facts supporting dense cities as being more sustainable should be enough, but even so, there are other important principles the support density.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: 'Coolest City' Rankings Not Whole Story Greater Greater Washington Forbes recently named Bethesda America's 17th coolest city, causing some to wonder if Montgomery County is becoming Portland on the Potomac. While their ranking and definition of a "city" are suspect, there's still plenty to be excited about.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Healthier Parks Through Partnering City Parks Blog Creating a health-promoting park system requires greater expertise and resources than any park agency can provide alone. What's needed are partnerships with other public agencies, as well as with private foundations, corporations, citizens' groups, and volunteers.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: When Streets Belonged To All Streetsblog It's been a little over a year since Raquel Nelson was convicted of vehicular homicide for attempting to cross a street with her kids in suburban Atlanta. Much of the public responded not with outrage, or demands that municipalities improve conditions for pedestrians, but with victim-blaming vitriol, passed along in news stories with headlines like "Jaywalkers Take Deadly Risks."... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Steps For Successful Bike-Ped Advocacy Transportation Issues Daily Bike-ped funding advocacy takes on new importance now that state DOTs now have authority to allocate a portion of federal "bike-ped" funds. A new short, plain-language report is designed to walk bike-ped stakeholders through the elements of developing a funding campaign, using examples from two successful campaigns.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Dreaming Bigger In Civic Tech Movement The Catalyst A vibrant technical community has recently coalesced around creatively solving civic problems. Code for America is just the best example of the burgeoning group of organizations building well-designed, well-executed, and modern web or mobile apps that solve civic issues.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Helping Crowdsource Solutions Planners Web "Crowdsourcing" is one of the most powerful concepts in business over the last decade. Crowdsourcing uses internet tools to recruit ideas, and in many cases actual designs and products, from a pool of dozens or thousands of people who care passionately about that topic.... Read On |
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Video: Walking In Memphis Car Free Baltimore Grass roots, community led revitalization of Broad Street in Memphis. A few buckets of paint, some pop up shops, and entrepreneurial spirit did more to bring a neighborhood back to life than hundreds of millions of dollars of highway building and decades of tourist-centric economic development efforts by "experts".... Read On |
