Blogosphere: Manhattan Without Subways, 2nd London Loop, Zurich Tram's Priority Lanes, Defining Walkable
November 1, 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: Carpool Rule for Manhattan Drivers Streetsblog After a morning and afternoon when car traffic completely clogged NYC streets and river crossings, Mayor Bloomberg announced new restrictions for drivers entering Manhattan via bridges and tunnels on Thursday and Friday. On most crossings, only cars with three or more people will be allowed to enter Manhattan... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Scenes from a Commute Without Subways Streetsblog With the NYC subway system knocked out indefinitely and service suspended on the LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit, and PATH systems, New Yorkers are gamely heading back to work today... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Second Loop Around London Suprageography In six weeks time, London will have a second orbital railway. The Circle line has been running for just over 100 years, and on 9 December will be joined by the latest edition to Transport for London's Overground Network.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Zurich's Tram System & Priority Lanes GMF Urban Current Tony Mazzella is Strategic Advisor at the City of Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). Tony recently visited Munich and Zurich to study how each city has prioritized surface-running transit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Makes Places "Walkable" ? Greater Greater Washington We've known for three decades how to make livable cities-after forgetting for four-yet we've somehow not been able to pull it off. Jane Jacobs, who wrote in 1960, won over the planners by 1980... Read On |
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Blogosphere: San Diego Chooses Between Two Bikers DC Streetsblog The election is less than a week away. Americans have a choice between a) a president who has overseen notable transportation and land use innovations but failed to provide leadership when the national transportation bill could have been reformed, and b) a former governor who enacted a progressive, pro-smart-growth agenda but who has renounced those positions as a candidate... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Paving Streets Raises Quality of Life Chicago Policy Review Around the world, people are increasingly migrating from rural areas to urban centers. Urbanization is particularly evident in developing countries: the World Bank reports that 90 percent of current urban growth occurs in developing nations... Read On |
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Blogosphere: New Streetcars for Toronto Showing Up Urban Toronto (via @BrentTodarian) The first of Toronto's new streetcars have been delivered by rail from Bombardier's manufacturing facility in Thunder Bay. The streetcars are state-of-the-art Flexity Outlook models and, over the next few years, the Canadian transportation giant will deliver 204 of them.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Happens to Skywalker Ranch? Curbed SF On Tuesday it was announced that Walt Disney Co bought LucasFilm for a mind-boggling $4.05 billion (yes, with a B), giving George Lucas, the sole owner, half in cash and the rest in stock. But what about the future of Lucasfilm studios in the Bay Area?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Candy Optimization Edible Geography Just in time for those of you planning to head out trick-or-treating tonight, architect and planner Paul L. Knight and his colleague Kevin Clark have conducted a series of analyses of the impact of urban design on your sugar haul... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Using Localism Act to Save A Pub Guardian UK In May 2012, I wrote an article about my community's fight for the continued existence of our local pub, the Ivy House in Nunhead, south-east London, following the eviction of its tenants by the freeholder, Enterprise Inns... Read On |
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Blogosphere: First Steps to Community Engagement Next American City The question of how to meaningfully and authentically engage community members in planning and development efforts is both difficult and important... Read On |
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Blogosphere: China Urged to Stop One Child Policy Huffington Post A government think tank is urging Chinese leaders to start phasing out China's one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Do Millenials Want to Call Your City Home? Governing I knew the "brain drain" problem had reached a crisis point when they started talking about it in Boston. You know the story: Kids move to where they want to live and then look for a job, not the other way around... Read On |
