News: Dallas Toll Roads, BART Metro Planning, Atlanta Transit Tax Foes, Diverging Traffic, Twin Cities Art Corridor
May 24, 2012
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| Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom. |
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Dallas: City Could Oppose Toll Roads Dallas Morning News Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Wednesday it is not too late for the city to change its position on the controversial Trinity River toll road, should new doubts about its benefits raised by three colleagues of his on the city council prove well-founded... Read On |
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Bay Area: BART Metro Planning Continues San Francisco Examiner The Bay Area's population is expected to increase by more than 2 million people over the next 40 years, and the overwhelming majority of those residents are projected to live near transit centers such as BART stations... Read On |
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Atlanta: Transit Tax Opposition Gets Louder Atlanta Journal Consitution If you go to almost any public meeting in Cobb County - no matter the topic - conversation is most likely to turn to the proposed regional transportation referendum... Read On |
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Denver: Colorado Could Get Diverging Diamond Denver Post Motorists are driving into more and more foreign-born traffic designs in Colorado neighborhoods and highways, put there to more safely handle increasing volumes of cars and trucks... Read On |
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Bay Area: Lafayette BART Parking to Get Solar Covers Lamorinda Weekly In a brief presentation to the Lafayette City Council, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Director Gail Murray and the manager of BART's Energy Division, Frank Schultz, gave an update on changes to the proposed solar panel installation slated for the eastern parking lot section of the Lafayette BART station... Read On |
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International: New Cities Built Around HSR Corridors Economic Times A near-perfect correlation between urbanisation and economic growth has been established by several studies done by World Bank and others. India has increasingly become more urbanised on the back of the economic development over the last 20 years... Read On |
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Salt Lake City: UTA Starts Restoring Recession Cuts Salt Lake Tribune The economy is turning around enough that the Utah Transit Authority is starting to think about which bus routes it might restore among those that were cut to make ends meet during the recession as UTA finished expanded TRAX rail lines... Read On |
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Twin Cities: Central Corridor as Art Corridor Pioneer Press When a developer decided to turn the seven-story Chittenden-Eastman building into market-rate lofts, dozens of St. Paul artists were forced to leave long-established studios. Some saw that 2010 exodus at Raymond and University avenues as a sign of things to come... Read On |
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Los Angeles: City Bans Plastic Bags Los Angeles Times Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Wednesday to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a major victory to clean-water advocates who sought to reduce the amount of trash clogging landfills, the region's waterways and the ocean... Read On |
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Seattle: Critics of Mayor's Mixed Use Proposal Seattle Times (via @otis_white) Some residents fear that a package of land-use and zoning changes now before the Seattle City Council would not only wipe out the remaining stock of historic homes, but also allow entire blocks of ground-floor retail such as check-cashing and convenience stores on what are quiet residential streets... Read On |
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Lincoln: City Seeks Developer for 7 Acres Downtown Journal Star The city is looking for a creative developer to turn seven acres of land just east of downtown Lincoln into a multi-use area that would include offices, stores and condos or apartments... Read On |
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International: Vertical Urbanism, Restricted Access Today Online Having studied in Cambridge, UK and having spent the majority of my childhood growing up in London, Singapore was far removed from the low-rise environment that I was used to... Read On |
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International: Coping with Pakistani Urbanization International Herald Tribune Urban management and urban planning have come of age. Across the world, city mayors are now recognised as the main actors in ensuring that our now globally urbanised society resides in livable and vibrant cities... Read On |
