Blogosphere: Next For Atlanta, Lessons From Miami, CAHSR Uncertain Future, Amateur Transit Videos, Best Cities For Young Professionals
August 6, 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 Next For Transportation In Atlanta? The Avenue, Brookings When it comes to transformative infrastructure, there's no bigger tool for metro areas than local referendums. These regional votes give metropolitan areas an opportunity to sidestep the business-as-usual approach in Washington and initiate their own local vision-and to do so with resources typically counted in the billions. From major rail investments in Denver to a new central park in Oklahoma City, referendums are a vital way to reshape our metropolitan economies. And that's exactly what makes yesterday's vote in Atlanta so troubling for that region's future.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lessons From Miami In Transport Funding Transport Politic Last week, Georgia voters overwhelmingly denied the passage of the T-SPLOST referendum, which, among other things, would have provided $7.2 billion for transportation over the next ten years to the Atlanta region thanks to income from a 1¢ sales tax.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Uncertain Future Of California HSR New Georgraphy On July 18, at a site pregnant with symbolism - the future location of what HSR advocates hope will become San Francisco's terminus of the state's bullet train - California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to fund construction of the first section of the high-speed line.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Straight Talk On High-Speed Rail U-T San Diego High-speed rail is a visionary project that holds the potential to alter transportation patterns in the state, but many difficult challenges must be overcome before the promise of affordable high-speed rail travel comes to pass, and any one of these challenges could significantly delay or even derail the project's completion.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: To Charge Or Not Drivers Who Kill Peds SF.Streetsblog As Streetsblog has reported, when a sober automobile driver strikes and kills a pedestrian in San Francisco and stays at the scene, charges are rarely filed. While evidence suggests motorists' failure to yield is responsible for a plurality of pedestrian injuries in the city, new information furnished by the SF District Attorney's office shows that few drivers who kill face charges unless they are drunk or flee the scene.... Read On |
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Video: Best Amateur Music Videos About Transit DC.Streetsblog Transit and bike activists are creative folks. More and more young, car-eschewing millennials are making their case in amateur music videos. The result is funnier and more imaginative than anything you'll find on basic cable.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Young Home Buyers Seek 'Walkability' Star Tribune When Scott and Lacey Campbell went searching for their first home, city living was high on their list of must-haves. "We could have gotten a bigger, newer house in the suburbs for less money, but we didn't want that," said Scott. Instead, they bought a house in Minneapolis, close to Mississippi River walking trails, restaurants, coffee shops and the Riverview movie theater. Lacey, who is expecting, is pleased that her child will grow up with "access to great things, without being tethered to me or a car," she said.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Best US Cities For Young Professionals Urban Times Innovation, cool, salary, after hours activities, like-minded people and an abundance of leisure outlets are the variables that make up timeRAZOR's 'Thrive' index for young professionals. Although simplified, the metrics offer up an interesting look into which city a young professional will flourish the most and the results may seem surprising:... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Taxi Index Of Urban Success Source There are so many indices for measuring urban success: creative jobs, low crime rates, low pollution, walkability, high education levels, happiness quotients. I would add another.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Public Value In Market Analysis, Modeling New Geography Zoning ordinances, land use maps and comprehensive plans used by cities to guide growth rarely provide the kind of insight required to make informed decisions about what will truly be best for the city and its residents in the long run. Unfortunately, by failing to incorporate market analysis and financial modeling in the beginning stages of the planning process, too many cities find themselves facing the results of misallocated resources and fiscal difficulties that could have been easily prevented.... Read On |
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Video: Peter Calthorpe & The American Dream Sustainable Cities Collective Innovative architect and urban thinker Peter Calthorpe has directly and indirectly been a huge influence on the field of sustainable communities, particularly with respect to the very important subjects of smart regional thinking and transit-oriented development.... Read On |
