Blogosphere: Transpo Awards For Roads, Amtrak Philly Impact, Work On Next Fed Transpo Bill, Gentrification Side Effects
September 10, 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: AASHTO's Best Projects are Roads DC Streetsblog Are you ready to be inspired? Well, good, because the American Association of State Highway and Transportation just released its list of finalists for the "America's Transportation Award" Grand Prize... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Amtrak Might Redefine Philly Atlantic Cities The big pricetag received most of the attention when Amtrak released its updated vision for passenger rail in the Northeast Corridor [PDF] earlier this summer: $151 billion... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Boxer Already Working on Transpo Bill DC Streetsblog Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) confirmed she is already working on the next transportation bill - "two months to the day after President Obama signed MAP-21 into law and before the new policies even kick in on Oct. 1," according to Politico, which broke the story this morning... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Walking Has Slowed in Indian Cities This Big City The hierarchy of mobility needs is a concept similar to that of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - a psychological theory of fundamental human needs. To understand how a hierarchy of needs may work from a mobility point of view, lets consider how a 'rational commuter' may feel about these two options... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Elevated Bike System for London? Treehugger Landscape architect Sam Martin proposes Skycycle, a separated, elevated system of bike lanes for London. According to the Daily Mail, he gave up cycling in London because he found it too dangerous... Read On |
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Blogosphere: End Single Family Lot Minimums Seattle Transit Blog Recently a developer has been using a loophole to build small-lot houses in SF5000 zones in Seattle. Single family zones are classified by the minimum lot size allowed for each home.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Are Democrats Embarrassed by Cities? Salon As the Democrats packed up and left Charlotte, N.C., this week, the New York Times posted a nifty interactive feature that let you see how often certain words and phrases were used in speeches at both parties' conventions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Gentrification's Side Effects Urban Times A proposed park on Washington, D.C.'s 11th Street Bridge is set to bring together two neighborhoods of distinctively different socioeconomic classes. Currently, the 11th Street Bridge in Southeast D.C. still carries traffic... Read On |
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Commentary: Redevelopment, Dead or Alive? Modesto Bee Redevelopment is dead - or so proclaimed Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators last year when they canceled the legal authorization for the six- decade-old urban renewal program and seized its assets to close the state's budget deficit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tokyo River Lit Up by 100K Orbs Pop Up City We have recently written about how waterfront lighting can create dramatic and memorable effects. Even the canals of Amsterdam have been involved in a bioluminecsence design proposal... Read On |
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Opinion: Can City Life Be Exported to Burbs? Washington Post It's Friday night, and you dash downstairs from your apartment to the street. You head to dinner, strolling down the sidewalk, past the brick storefronts and the couples sitting around the fountain. What will it be tonight: Italian or a nice steak?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Fall and Rise of Small Downtown America NRDC Switchboard A few years ago, I co-authored a post here that featured the small town in which I grew up in Pennsylvania. I tried not to be nostalgic, but the town did have many of the design features that help define sustainable, smart growth.. Read On |
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Commentary: San Francisco's Urban Tech Boom San Francisco Chronicle Pinterest's recent move from Palo Alto to San Francisco has sparked chatter in the high-tech world: Is the Bay Area's innovative center of gravity shifting away from suburban Silicon Valley to urban San Francisco?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Secret Train Car of Bloomingdales Scouting NY The other day, I was searching for restaurants around midtown when something came up on my phone that seemed too good to be true... Read On |
