Blogosphere: Value Of Walkability, Rural Transit, LA Rail Car Job Loss, Densit & Transit, Desegregating Cities, Case For LA TOD
May 29, 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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Opinion: Walkability Has Great Value New York Times WALKING isn't just good for you. It has become an indicator of your socioeconomic status. Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Making Rural Transit Work DC Streetsblog Transit in rural areas is tricky. Folks need to go farther, the passengers are more dispersed, and there's less money to go around... Read On |
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Editorial: LA's Lost Jobs Opportunity Los Angeles Times On April 30, the L.A. Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted to award an $890-million contract for 235 light rail cars to Kinkisharyo International, a Japanese firm that will build a significant portion of the cars in Osaka, Japan, rather than in California... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Some Numbers on Density and Transit Old Urbanist I've posted on density-related issues several times, including the relationship between height and density, building footprints and density, and street width and density, but I haven't said much about density and transit use... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Major Ambitions for Improved Transit The Transport Politic Montgomery County, Maryland is one of the core counties of one of the nation's most appealing metropolitan regions - the nation's capital. Yet much of the county is relatively built out - mature, one might describe it .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Great Resource on European Buses, BRT Human Transit In case you've missed the headlines, Europe's economy is even more shaky than that of the US, with the consequences of the global crisis overlaid with the crisis of the Euro. So as in the US, it's time to do more with less... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Transit Types and Modal Share Old Urbanist I've put together three additional charts, correlating per capita highways, heavy rail and light rail with commuting transit share for an expanded list of thirty American cities, in the hope that these statistics might add to and shed light on the results from the previous post... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Students Suspended for Biking to School T4 America We're not going to pile on in the story of the overly punitive principal who suspended 64 Michigan students for biking to school as a senior "prank". After all, she later rescinded the suspensions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Can Cities Desegregate? Salon "Segregation," the preacher paused to let his congregation absorb the full solemnity of his message, "is apparent everywhere." It was December 4, 1910, in Baltimore, Maryland... Read On |
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Blogosphere: LA and the Case for TOD LA Streetsblog In an ideal world, Metro would go out and buy all the land it needs to build lines along the routes where urban density is the greatest. But L.A. long ago ceased to be a city where there is ample undeveloped land and little opposition from residents, business owners and drivers to needed transit improvements... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Ten Problems w Purpose/Need Statements Portland Transport While we await the announced "vision, goals, and objectives" for the Southwest Corridor project, recently approved by the project's steering committee, it is time to consider the Top Ten Problems of such documents... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Privileged Play NIMBY Too Often Salon Continuing the grand tradition of privileged communities opposing transit projects, the good people of 90210 are fighting a plan to run a subway below Beverly Hills High School... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why We Pay More for Walkable N'hoods The Atlantic Cities Instinct probably tells you that you'll pay a lot more to live in a downtown apartment, above a grocery store, next to a bar strip and within walking distance of your work place than you will to settle into a comparable home in a bedroom community outside of the city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Thousands of New Residents Downtown Urban Cincy Downtown Cincinnati Inc. (DCI) has released its eighth annual State of Downtown Report. The findings show continued improvements throughout the Central Business District, Over-the-Rhine and Pendleton neighborhoods... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Are Trees Crime Deterrents? The Atlantic Cities Silly as it may seem to the public, there's an intense disagreement among scholars about the impact urban trees have on a city's crime rate. Some are convinced urban greenery increases crime... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Secret Soviet Cities Design as Politics These closed cities or so called ZATO sites (Closed Administrative-Territorial Formation / Zakrytoe administrativno-territorial'noe obrazovanie) were areas for secret military or scientific research and production in the Soviet Empire... Read On |
