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Florida: State Voters Favored HSR Plans
The Hill
Voters in Florida's critical swing Interstate 4 corridor favored the construction of a high-speed railway between Tampa and Orlando that was killed by Florida's Gov. Rick Scott...
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International: Taipei Unveils Mega TOD Project
Taiwan Today
Taipei Main Station is to be the site of a multibillion dollar real estate development featuring hotels, offices, restaurants and shops, according to the local government Oct. 28...
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National: Market Oriented Approach to Aviation
Transportation Experts Blog
The Brookings Institution released a report last week with an astonishing (and potentially controversial) finding: Airports in the largest 100 metro areas handle 96 percent of all international passengers, but they receive only 36 percent of federal funds for infrastructure maintenance and improvements...
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New Jersey: Hoboken/Jersey City Station Idea
Jersey Journal
New Jersey Transit has received $400,000 federal grant to look into building a new Light Rail station on the Hoboken/Jersey City border...
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National: Ray LaHood Cleans Up Wikipedia Page
The Onion
Grumbling that "it doesn't take any longer to get this stuff right than it does to get it wrong," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood reportedly spent three hours this weekend proofreading, correcting, and in some cases rewriting Wikipedia's error-riddled roundabout entry...
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Research: Geography of Rec Open Space, Race, Poverty
Journal of Urban Health
The geography of recreational open space might be inequitable in terms of minority neighborhood racial/ethnic composition and neighborhood poverty, perhaps due in part to residential segregation...
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Blogosphere: Golf Course Redev Could Lift Region
M Live
For the second November in a row, Lansing voters will be asked to give city officials permission to sell the former Red Cedar Golf Course. Last year, voters overwhelmingly approved selling a 12-acre parcel of the approximately 60 acres of parkland at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Clippert Street at the eastern edge of the city...
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San Carlos: Planners Try Transit Village Again
The Daily Journal
The San Carlos Planning Commission will hold a third hearing Monday night on the proposed mixed-use development around the city's train station, slowly making its way through a long list of issues before determining if the environmental impact report is sufficient...
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San Francisco: Transit Tower Secures Money Partner
San Francisco Examiner
The developer of the 1,070-foot Transit Tower, which will be the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast, secured a partnership with a financial partner and is expected to purchase the land for the building in early 2013...
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Harrisburg: Land Banks Newest Anti-Blight Tool
The Times Tribune
Parcels of abandoned and tax-delinquent properties can be merged into locally administered "land banks" and developed for new uses under legislation signed last week into law by Gov. Tom Corbett...
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