Blogosphere: The Right To Ride Bus, Extending Seattle Rail, Expectations Of Rail To Airports, Defining Walkable Community
July 31, 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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Los Angeles: Transportation As A Civil Right National Journal The Bus Riders Union and several other civil rights organizations took to the streets in Los Angeles last week, saying the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority should restore 1 million hours of bus service that were lost over the last four years. The union charges that the cuts in service, along with fare increases, have disproportionately harmed 500,000 African-American, Latino, and Asian-Pacific Islander bus riders.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Far Should We Extend Rail? Seattle Transit Blog In 1995 and 2007, voters struck down measures to build and expand regional rail at the ballot, only to pass both the following years (1996 and 2008, respectively). In both instances, the approved measures were scaled down in scope from their predecessors, which has since unleashed quite a bit of consternation over the what-ifs and the woulda-coulda-shouldas had we built rail out to places like Tacoma, Everett, and Issaquah.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Disconnection By Design In Christchurch Ackland Transport Blog Out of the tragedy of the earthquakes there are opportunities to improve what was, in truth, a struggling CBD in Christchurch. In one critical area it is not clear that this is being taken. Perhaps amidst the ruin and suffering there has been an understandable tendency to gloss over the city's preexisting problems, a natural urge to idealise what has been lost. But as a reasonably regular visitor there before the quakes it was very clear to me that this was a city with a very big problem, a big and increasingly damaging hole in the heart of it; an emptying centre. The city was becoming a classic 'Doughnut City', our very own little Detroit: all sub and a declining urbs.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Orange Line and the Airport Connection An Urban Rambler The first three stations of the Irving section of the Orange Line opened today and unlike Belo Gardens, I don't need to wait for it to be open a while to discuss it. ... Prompted by a discussion on Unfair Park, I want to discuss the anticipations of the DFW Airport Station's impact on Orange Line ridership. I want to temper what I think are unrealistic expectations.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Makes A Good Walkable Community? NRDC Switchboard We have a number of formal and informal ways to think about what makes a good walkable community. I've written before about the popsicle test (can a child comfortably walk to buy a popsicle and walk back home?), the Halloween test (does the neighborhood attract kids walking door-to-door on Halloween?), and the 20-minute neighborhood (can you meet most of your daily needs within a 20-minute walk or transit ride?).... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Are Bigger Highways Good For Health? Dallas News The California department of transportation argues that one of the reasons for a proposed $7 billion highway expansion in Los Angeles is that it will make everyone healthier.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Build A Better Model Better Cities & Towns We humans are eager to pretend, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that large changes in the trajectory of human progress are infrequent. There is comfort in pretending that we are far more in control of things than we really are. We don't understand, or perhaps respect, the mystery and complexity of the world we operate in.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bike Lanes Help Denver Street Prosper Denver Urbanism In October of 2011, less than a year ago, Public Works converted Larimer Street between Downing and Broadway from a three-lane one-way arterial into a two-way street with one auto traffic lane and one bike lane in each direction. The result of of this relatively minor public investment has been great for this once neglected commercial corridor.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Touchdown Pass or Lost Yardage? L.A. Streetsblog As places celebrating athletic discipline and active lives, professional sports stadiums should energize physical activity and empower health. Unfortunately, the sports-entertainment giant Anshutz Entertainment Group's (AEG)proposal for a football stadium and new Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles will hurt surrounding communities. The proposed stadium will permanently change the landscape-and harm the health-of downtown Los Angeles.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Open Source Architecture Polis "Imagine if we could make designing and printing your house as easily as shopping on amazon - and put it into the public domain forever." This is the challenge put forth by the minds behind open-source DYI project WikiHouse.... Read On |
