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National: House Rs to Unveil Transport Bill
Washington Post
House Republicans will present a long-awaited plan to fund the nation's transportation system on Tuesday, a proposal that would shift more decision-making authority to state governments, dramatically reduce the time spent on environmental reviews and encourage private companies to expand the highway system by building toll roads...
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Raleigh: Low Income Housing Faces Uphill Battle
Raleigh Public Record
The approval of Passage Homes, an apartment complex that will create 18 new apartment units on Coleman Street near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is the city's latest effort to meet the growing demand for affordable housing...
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California: Measure Would Repeal High Speed Rail
Trasnsportation Nation
State Senator Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) introduced legislation today that would put high-speed rail back on the November ballot in California. The measure would give voters the chance to de-authorize the $9 billion bond measure passed in 2008...
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Ann Arbor: City Shifts Transit Gear to Neutral
Ann Arbor Chronicle
At its meeting last week, the council again delayed action on a four-party agreement that would establish a framework for a transition of the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority to a countywide governance incorporated under Michigan's Act 196 of 1986...
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Milwaukee: Streetcar Plan Recieves Federal Approval
Milwaukee Business Journal
The downtown Milwaukee streetcar plan received federal approval last week, clearing the path for city officials to spend its $54.9 million in federal grant money to complete engineering and eventually build the system...
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National: Highway Lobby Pushing Bill
DC Streetsblog
For the 112th Congress, the path to passing a new transportation bill has been full of starts and stops, partisan politics and low expectations. While Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently said he doesn't expect a multi-year bill to pass this Congress...
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Los Angeles: Plan B's for Measure R Compared
LA Streetsblog
When the Mayor and his staff in city hall say that nothing is off the table when it comes to accelerating project development and construction for the transit projects funded by the Measure R sales tax, they aren't just talking...
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International: Work Starts on Italy/France HSR
Expatica
France and Italy on Monday signed an agreement to build a high-speed rail link between Lyon and Turin, the largest such project in Europe, despite opposition on the Italian side of the border...
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National: Segregation Curtailed in Major US Cities
New York Times
More than 40 years after the federal government enacted fair-housing legislation and the Great Migration of blacks from the South began to ebb, residential segregation in metropolitan America has been significantly curtailed, according to a study released Monday...
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Des Moines: Planned Line Would Boost Service
Des Moines Register
One thing became abundantly clear in developing the Capital Crossroads vision for central Iowa's future: Greater Des Moines is incredibly well positioned to become even greater than it already is - if we seize the right opportunities...
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California: Governor Says HSR Won't Cost That Much
Sacramento Bee
California's high-speed rail project will cost far less than the state's current estimate of nearly $100 billion and environmental fees paid by carbon producers will be a source of funding, Gov. Jerry Brown said in an interview aired in Los Angeles on Sunday...
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Vancouver WA: C-Tran Leaders Weigh LRT Pay Options
The Columbian
In the still-evolving debate over how to pay for maintaining new high-capacity transit systems in Vancouver, C-Tran leaders are so far sticking with Plan A. That's sending a sales tax measure to voters in November, which the agency's board committed to last year...
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Oregon: City Might Upend Renewal Commission
Oregonian
Oregon City may -- once again -- dump citizen appointees from its bulky and sometimes fractious urban renewal commission. The 10-member panel is composed of the city's five elected commissioners and five people representing neighborhoods and business interests...
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National: Transformation in Housing and Transport
National League of Cities
People who earn large cash profits from developing residential and commercial real estate suggest that retiring baby-boomers and young couples with or without children want to live in walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods...
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San Francisco: Muni Considers Fees for Developers
San Francisco Examiner
New homes would become more expensive in San Francisco under a proposal to slap a new fee on construction that would raise $170 million over 20 years for transportation projects...
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Bay Area: Developer Pauses Controversial Saltworks
Peninsula Press
Opponents to one of the Bay Area's largest proposed developments are not taking a back seat, despite months of silence from the developer. Since early November, developer DMB Associates has been undergoing what it calls an "internal review" for its Redwood City Saltworks proposal...
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Making Joint Development Work: the Federal, Transit Agency and Business Perspective
2011 Rail~Volution, Washington, DC
The Mile High Transit Opportunity Collaborative: How A Group of Nonprofits and Philanthropic Foundations Are Working to Ensure Equitable TOD in the Denver Region
Reconnecting America to help provide technical assistance to communities
