News: LA's Changing Boulevards, Houston Supercommuters, Transport Bill Talks, Florida's Outsource City
May 15, 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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Los Angeles: Boulevards Are Changing in LA Los Angeles Times As Los Angeles' boulevards reassert their place in the public realm, the transformation along Atlantic offers glimpses of a new city identity taking shape... Read On |
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Texas: Dallas to Houston Supercommuters Top of Nation Dallas Morning News Has that Frisco-to-Dallas commute got you down? Buck up, you could be headed to Houston every day for work. Plenty of your neighbors do, according to a study released earlier this year, and touted in the Dallas Business Journal today... Read On |
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San Francisco: Muni Looks to Add "Twitter" Express Bus San Francisco Examiner The resurgence of the mid-Market Street neighborhood could be boosted by another bus line serving the area. Muni has proposed adding an express route that would operate during peak weekday travel times... Read On |
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National: Transport Bill Talks Behind the Scenes The Hill Negotiations in Congress about a new federal transportation bill are moving out of committee rooms and behind the scenes, as lawmakers in the House and Senate continue talks about a possible deal... Read On |
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Dallas: Transit Agencies Work to Build System Progressive Railroading Dallas native Jim Cline recalls the days before the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system existed. It was the early 1980s, and expressways were under rapid construction to accommodate the Dallas-Fort Worth region's sprawling growth... Read On |
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National: On Transportation Enhancements National Journal Transport Experts Blog One of the most carefully negotiated provisions of the Senate highway bill involves "transportation enhancements," a program that provides government funding to help states "expand transportation choices and enhance the transportation experience," according to the Transportation Department... Read On |
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Research: Urbanism as Material Discourse Urban Geography Journal This essay seeks to challenge the idea that those who consider themselves to be empirical urban researchers are necessarily concerned with a quite separate quest for knowledge than those involved in the interpretation of representations and narratives of the urban experience... Read On |
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National: Mayor Enters New Urbanist Lion's Den New Haven Independent It fills in a failed urban renewal highway. Does that make it "new urbanism"? That question has hovered above New Haven's biggest development project in a generation, Downtown Crossing. Another way of asking the question: Is New Haven undoing a major mistake and learning from its past? Or is it repeating the mistake?.. Read On |
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Florida: City Gets by with 9 Public Employees Governing Magazine Weston, Fla., an affluent suburb 25 miles northwest of Miami, has one of the most unusual charters of any city: it specifically discourages the city from hiring employees. Since the 1980s, state and local governments across the country have increasingly sought to outsource various service to the private sector. But few do it like Weston... Read On |
