Blogosphere: Transport Geometry, Amtrak Vs Highway Subsidies, CAHSR Funding Streamlining, Amazon Paying For 10-Min Headways, Who Won Parking Day?
September 24, 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: Photo That Explains Transport Geometry Human Transit You've seen photos like this. A large group of people, with images comparing the amount of precious urban space they take depending on the mode of transport they use. This new one is by Australia's Cycling Promotion Fund... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Amtrak Subsidies Pale to Highways DC Streetsblog House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica continued his "holy jihad" against Amtrak yesterday, holding the third full-committee hearing in a series on "Reviewing Amtrak's Operations.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Obama to Streamline CA HSR Approvals CAHSR Blog Just one day after the FRA announced it had given its final approval to the Merced to Fresno high speed rail segment comes big news that President Obama will announce a streamlined review for the Fresno to Bakersfield high speed rail section:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Creepy Station Idea for Vienna Pop Up City For a post-graduate design project students were asked to design a renovation or replacement for Vienna's existing Westbahnhof train station. What Shahira Hammad offered up is a striking mass of what appears to be decaying foliage... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Amazon to Pay for 10 Min Headways Seattle Transit Blog The overall proposal includes $5.5 million of support for the Seattle Streetcar. This funding will allow the City to purchase an additional streetcar vehicle and increase operational support for 10 years as a part of the Planned Community Development benefit package... Read On |
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Blogosphere: New Visual of Highway 101 Transit Service The Greater Marin Marin's bus service is centered around Highway 101 and its "trunk" routes. From commuter lines to the basic San Francisco regional lines to the supplementary local routes, getting from one place to another on Highway 101 should be an easy task. Alas, it is not... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: Gajewski Turning Philly Green Grist Katherine Gajewski was just 29 years old when Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter asked her to take on the role of city sustainability director... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Immigration Choice and Cities Pedestrian Observations Houston booster and blogger Tory Gattis has a theory of what he calls opportunity urbanism, i.e. a focus on upward mobility as the primary goal of urban policy... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Who Won Parking Day 2012? Map Grapher If you didn't already know, PARK(ing) Day is an annual worldwide event where artists, designers and citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Diversity of West Campus Austin Contrarian Last week, the Daily Texan ran an interesting article entitled "A Tale of Two Neighborhoods": The growing diversity of the UT student body has not spurred racial integration in student neighborhoods, census, city and UT records show... Read On |
