News: Bus Centers & Land Values, Biker Liberals, NC Restores LRT Funds, Cost Of Roadway Fatalities, HUD & DOT Budget Veto Threat
June 22, 2012
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Research: Impact of Bus Transit Centers on Land Values TRB TRID Public transit professionals continue to seek methods that offer greater service opportunities, while not materially increasing the costs of service provision. One strategy is to construct bus transit centers, which operate much like the airline hub and spoke concept... Read On |
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National: Bikers the New Limousine Liberals? Salon Why should Washington, D.C., subsidize its bikeshare system if it's mostly used by white people with college degrees? That's the question ReasonTV posed yesterday, and it's a good one to think about... Read On |
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Philadelphia: Why SEPTA is Headed for a Crash Philadelphia City Paper Self-hating Philadelphians love to complain about the city and its services. One of their favorite targets? The underrated, underfunded, enormous and, yes, aromatic Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, known with strained affection as SEPTA. .. Read On |
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Charlotte: NC Legislators Restore LRT Funding Charlotte Observer Legislators are expected to vote Thursday on a $20.2 billion budget that restores funding for Charlotte's $1 billion Lynx Blue Line extension to University City... Read On |
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Portland: Crashes Cost More Than Congestion Oregon Metro Think freeway curves are the most dangerous roads in the Portland area? Think again. The region's bustling arterial streets, such as Tualatin Valley Highway in Washington County, 82nd Avenue in Multnomah County or McLoughlin Boulevard in Clackamas County have much higher rates of roadway fatalities and severe injuries... Read On |
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International: Deluge of Data Making Cities Laboratories The Economist NO FACE looks alike, but human bodies and their genetic make-up are almost identical. Cities too have distinctive charms-but are surprisingly alike behind their façades. Regardless of size, their populations grow at the same average rate everywhere in the world... Read On |
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International: No High Rises in Small Plots Times of India Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI), an organisation which has leading builders as its members, on Monday expressed its disappointment after the civic authorities rejected its demand to allow skyscrapers on small plots... Read On |
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National: White House Threatens DOT/HUD Budget Veto The Hill The White House threatened to veto a $51.6 billion budget for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development that is being considered by Republicans in the House... Read On |
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Atlanta: Urban Gardening Returns to Its Roots Atlanta Journal Constitution Starting over is never easy, but after Hurricane Katrina forced Tina Perrin to relocate from the Gentilly section of New Orleans to Atlanta, she hoped to make a smooth transition... Read On |
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Portland: Rose Quarter Could See Zoning Changes Oregonian A revised plan for redeveloping the Rose Quarter, the Oregon Convention Center and the Lloyd District re-envisions the area as a walkable, high-density urban district with some of the tallest buildings in the city. .. Read On |
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Austin: First Community Land Trust in Texas Austin Chronicle This Friday morning, groundbreaking will be celebrated on what is intended to be a groundbreaking effort: the first "Community Land Trust" home in Austin and, according to its founders, the first such effort in Texas... Read On |
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Bay Area: Can Population Growth Be Sustainable? Bay Nature In 1968, biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote the best-seller "The Population Bomb," warning of mass starvation in the face of uncontrolled human population growth. Taken as alarmist at the time, the book nevertheless started a debate about the world's limited natural resources and the human race's voracious appetite... Read On |
