Blogosphere: Investing In Vegas HSR, Demo Transpo Platform, 'War On Motorists' Myth, HSR Vs Self-Driven Cars, Hamburgers & Induced Demand
September 5, 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: Private Investors Line Up for Desert HSR CAHSR Blog The California high speed rail project closest to completion isn't the San Francisco to Los Angeles route being built by the California High Speed Rail Authority. It's XpressWest, formerly known as DesertXpress, which would connect Las Vegas to Los Angeles via Victorville and Palmdale... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Democratic Platform Scarce on Transpo DC Streetsblog President Obama spent Labor Day touting his rescue of the U.S. auto industry, and today, like a chorus of backup singers, the Big Three automakers posted double-digit sales increases in perfect unison. Meanwhile, the Democrats kicked off their convention in Charlotte... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why the "War on Motorists" is a Myth New Statesman (via Captain Plan It) Motorists are feeling the pinch. Prices at the pump are rising while most people's pay packages have barely kept up with inflation in recent years. But so too are rail users. Many fares will rise by 6.2 per cent while some commuters will face an 11 per cent hike... Read On |
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Blogosphere: BRT Knowledge Sharing in Asia The City Fix The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, along with CEPT University, is launching the Asia BRTS Conference to be held on September 6-8, 2012, with the goal of improving knowledge, sharing experiences and advancing the concept of bus rapid transit (BRT) in India and across Asia... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Can HSR Compete w Self Driven Cars? Forbes There's been much debate in the USA about High Speed Rail (HSR) and most notably the giant project aimed at moving 20 to 24 million passengers a year through the California central valley, and in particular from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in 2 hours 40 minutes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Induced Demand is Like Free Burgers Greater Greater Washington In a lively comment debate over Herb Caudill's article on car dependence, some readers argued that "induced demand," the principle that new or wider roads rarely relieve congestion, is no reason to eschew major highway projects... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why (Almost) Nothing Gets Done Minnesota Post "Stop" may be Minneapolis' secret mantra. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about why a prize piece of land across from Lake Calhoun continues to sit empty after seven years of attempts to redevelop it... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Berlin's Invisible Gentrifiers The Atlantic Cities I still think sometimes about the Berlin apartment I came so close to buying this spring. With herringbone parquet floors and a big sunny balcony looking out over birches and pines, its two rooms cost around half the price of London's cheapest studio... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Companies Affect Effective Planning Urban Planning and Transport Blog In my last couple of posts, I talked about the efforts of many cities to create economic development by inciting corporations with subsidies to locate. Today, I am going to talk about how corporations influence public policy and can have a detrimental effect on effective public planning... Read On |
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Blogosphere: 1906 Photos Integrated with Present Day Atlantic Cities The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 marked a turning point in the history of American urban disasters. Unlike the Chicago Fire of 1871, another catastrophic leveling of a major U.S. city., the 1906 quake was captured by legions of amateur and professional photographers... Read On |
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Blogosphere: International Geography of Poverty Economist Free Exchange Economists have probably been debating the uses and abuses of foreign aid since the first denarius was sent to the first Roman imperial province. This week's Free Exchange looks at the issue through an unusual lens: that of geography... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Gov and Growth in San Antonio Atlantic Cities Julián Castro, the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio, will deliver a keynote address tonight, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. While not yet a major national figure, Castro is nonetheless one of the brighter Hispanic stars in a party that relies heavily on dominating the non-white vote... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Data and Technology The Polis Blog Business and government leaders in a growing number of cities are recognizing that investment in smarter, greener technologies can help optimize resource use, offering a way to renew struggling urban economies while improving ecological wellbeing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Three Sizes of Norfolk Zoning The Atlantic Cities It may be overly simplistic, but boiling a neighborhood down to its very basic characteristics is something we do all the time. If you're surrounded by tall buildings or Main Street shopping, you're probably downtown... Read On |
