News: DC Buys Oregon Streetcars, Transit Fueled DC Suburbs, Boise Streetcar Promotion, TOD Suburban Impact
August 23, 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. |
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DC: City Buying Third Streetcar from Oregon Iron Washington Business Journal The District has tacked on a third streetcar to its contract with Oregon Iron Works Inc., despite reports out of the west coast that the company is behind schedule on jobs for other clients... Read On |
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DC: Transit Fueled DC Suburbs Transportation Nation Mount Pleasant, Anacostia, LeDroit Park...all three a part of our nation's capital, are probably not the first names that come to mind when one thinks of the D.C. suburbs. But these three neighborhoods actually comprised the District's earliest 'burbs... Read On |
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National: Pneumatic Transit in the 1870s Scientific American In 1870, construction of the first underground railway started and ended with Ely Beach Pneumatic Transit (check out this awesome post by Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics for greater explanation of the topic). Construction was undertaken in secret, under the guise of creating postal tunnels... Read On |
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Boise: Transport Secretary Promotes Boise Streetcar Boise Weekly Transportation was a major focus for the City of Boise Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited The City of Trees, stopping at a Boise-based locomotive manufacturing facility with Boise officials on board for the tour... Read On |
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Research: Impact of TOD on Suburban Areas TRB TRID This paper will present the project efforts of a project analyzing the largest transit oriented development (TOD) development effort underway in Connecticut. Being undertaken by several developers in the South End of Stamford, Connecticut.. Read On |
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Research: How Much Parking is Too Much? TRB TRID We all know that Transit Oriented Developments can provide great benefits to cities and their communities by reducing the need for private car usage. However, planning TODs is problematic because some of their transport characteristics are not well documented and understood... Read On |
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Los Angeles: How LA Got One of Largest US Urban Parks KCET The recent premiere of downtown L.A.'s Grand Avenue Park and the continuing debate over the public use of Pershing Square has returned attention to a longstanding criticism of Los Angeles: its relative lack of parkland within the city limits... Read On |
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International: Urban Gardening Greens JoBurg Rooftops Christian Science Monitor In South Africa, the Tlhago Primary Agricultural Cooperative teaches urban youths gardening skills, educates them about climate change, and empowers them to take practical actions... Read On |
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Phoenix: Mesa to Annex GM Desert Proving Ground Arizona Republic Within a few days, Mesa is likely to grow by almost a square mile. That land is currently home to zero people. But over the next few years it's expected to fill in with homes, businesses and, in at least one spot, a high-density urban core... Read On |
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International: Lagos' Ambitious Plans CNN For decades, residents in Makoko have boarded wooden canoes to navigate through a labyrinth of narrow waterways crisscrossing a floating shanty town perched on stilts above Lagos Lagoon's murky canals... Read On |
