Blogosphere: NY Ungridlocked, Saving Baton Rouge Transit, Dallas Light Rail Vs. Tollway, Housing & Transport LInk, Robocar future
May 17, 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: New York Becomes Ungridlocked City-Journal Back in February 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that, in three months' time, New York City would permanently close Broadway to car and truck traffic in Times Square and Herald Square. The plan would "ease traffic congestion throughout the Midtown grid," the mayor said... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Saving a Transit System and Turning Tides T4 America Blog Last month, the citizens of Baton Rouge, LA, voted to raise their taxes to preserve and expand their struggling bus system. The landmark measure will nearly double transit funding - saving the system from meltdown while laying the groundwork for dramatically improved service... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Absurdity of Building Duplicative Infra Transport Politic This summer, Dallas' Orange Line will be extended five stations northwest of downtown. The light rail service will expand what is already the United States' longest such network and improve connections between central Dallas, the suburb of Irving, and - in 2014 - Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Are Housing and Transport Linked? City Tank Not surprisingly, housing is the largest cost for households in the Seattle area, yet transportation also accounts for a substantial chunk of our spending. On average, about 33 percent of what we spend each year goes to housing, while another 15 percent goes to transportation. That's close to half the amount we pay to keep a roof over our heads... Read On |
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Blogosphere: SEPTA Making Money From Energy Earth Techling The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) in not just an average transit authority. SEPTA is huge, operating various forms of public transit including bus, subway and elevated rail, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolley bus around the greater Philadelphia area... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Forget Transit, We Will Have Robocars DC Streetsblog Writer Michael Lind argued that the "case for infrastructure investment has suffered from the lack of a plausible vision of the next American infrastructure." Things that are not "plausible," according to Lind, include "renewable energy and mass transit.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Who Buys Manhattan Apartments? Getting From Here to There It makes more sense to rent than own your apartment in Manhattan. Here is more. So who buys? In about 20 percent of cases foreigners buy Manhattan properties. This is good as most of these units are not primary residences... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Residents w College Degrees Split DC Greater Greater Washington Rob Pitingolo has done a lot of research on which places have more or fewer people with college degrees. DC has the fourth most college degrees per square mile of any city in the nation, but that doesn't apply everywhere in the region or everywhere in DC... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What's the Price Tag on a Brand New City? The Atlantic Cities The infant nation of South Sudan has a big construction project in mind. Officials are hoping to build a brand new city to act as its capital. The cost of the project was recently estimated at $940 million... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Rift Among CNU Founders Goes Public Next American City Daniel Solomon and Andrés Duany go way back. Twenty years ago this year, the two men, urban designers and architects now in their 60s, co-founded the Congress for the New Urbanism, along with Peter Calthorpe, Elizabeth Moule, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Stefan Polyzoides... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Diminishing Returns of Building Height Walkable DFW Richard Florida has a good, short post up arguing against what we might deem "blind density." In other words, in an effort to chase after density, we're simply building taller. Not more compact. And certainly not more efficient... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Preserving Cultural Heritage After War Urban Times When we reflect on the horrors of war, our thoughts drift to the deaths of soldiers and civilians, and the many futures destroyed. With advancements in warfare technologies, however, a new horror is entering the imagination; the destruction of an entire past... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Tale of Two Technology Cities Polis Blog Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv, and Jack Bennett, deputy manager of Skolkovo City, represent different strategies aimed at emulating the success of Silicon Valley in becoming a global innovation hub... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Limits of Density The Atlantic Cities Density is all the rage these days. Urban economists, some of whom could be heard extolling the praises of "sun, skills, and sprawl" just a few years ago, now see increasing density as the key to improving productivity and driving economic growth... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Public Places into Private w Smart Phones The Atlantic Cities Smart phones have miraculously enabled people to stay connected, informed, and entertained, even in transit. We can now text, tweet, Skype, check Facebook updates, email in-boxes, Pandora channels and news feeds from a subway stop or street corner... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Sponsored Space in the City Urban Geographics Cities have always been the great spaces of commerce, trade and advertising; and recent decades have seen the corporate realm expand with the privatisation of services such as transport and utilities. Arguably corporate ownership is currently taking a new aspect with the explicit branding of urban places. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Designing for An Aging Population ULI Magazine We need a "conscious, affordable housing policy" to replace the current policy of "drive until you qualify," said new urbanist developer and author Christopher Leinberger during the design panel at a recent conference titled "Designing for an Aging Population" at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C... Read On |
