News: LA's Rail Mojo, America's Love Affair With Cars, Oakland's Coliseum Dilemma, East London's Olympic Boom, DC Growth Demographics
May 29, 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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Los Angeles: LA Getting its Rail Mojo Back Sacramento Bee It took more than a half-century, but this megalopolis that long ago turned its back on cheap street trolleys like the Red Car in favor of car-choked concrete superhighways is finally getting its rail mojo back... Read On |
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North Carolina: State Seeks to Pave Last Dirt Roads Charlotte Observer Mark Teague Road near Pittsboro in rural Chatham County is a half-mile-long strip of gravel that cuts through some woods and then dead-ends at a vacant brick ranch house surrounded by farmland... Read On |
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Norfolk: Residents, Planners Suggest LRT to Hilltop Virginian Pilot Imagine riding a train to shop at Whole Foods, browse through swanky boutiques or dine at some of the area's most upscale restaurants. Long-range city planners have suggested taking the proposed light-rail line to the popular Hilltop shopping area.. Read On |
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National: America's Love Affair with Cars No Accident Scientific American Drivers may feel spooked by seeing the first self-driving cars appear in coming years. But the new era could prove far less disruptive and bloody than the automobile's 20th-century battle to push pedestrians off U.S. streets... Read On |
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Minnesota: Looking for New Ways to Pay for Roads Minnesota Post (Note from JW - check out the interesting gas tax chart in the article) Everybody agrees that America would be better off if we used less gas. We wouldn't be so dependent for oil on countries that don't like us. Our air would be cleaner, and our family budgets would look a little less grim... Read On |
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International: Johannesburg's Urban Rebirth CNN For decades, Johannesburg has suffered from an image problem. Rising crime in the 1990s saw the flight of capital from the central city, with companies relocating their offices to the suburbs and the area becoming a ghost town after dark... Read On |
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Bay Area: Without Downtown, Stadium Plans Struggle San Francisco Chronicle City leaders are committed to developing the neighborhood around the Oakland Coliseum despite the Golden State Warriors' recent announcement they are leaving town... Read On |
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International: Climate Change Led to Indus Collapse Science Codex A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago... Read On |
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International: Olympics Renewing East London ESPN In August of 1944, when the tough east London neighborhoods of his childhood lay smoking in bombed-out ruins, a Nazi German V1 rocket packed with one ton of high explosives "fell just where you're sitting," David Gold says... Read On |
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Washington DC: Is It Time for DC to Grow Up? Wall Street Journal Facing the demands of a growing population and business district, the nation's capital is reconsidering a height limit on buildings that has defined the low-slung city... Read On |
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DC: Growth Fueled by 20 Somethings, Can City Follow? Washington DC During the past decade, Washington has become a magnet for ambitious 20-somethings. Not only does the city offer good jobs and better-than-average public transit, it also boasts food trucks and, of course, cupcake shops... Read On |
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National: The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Guardian UK (via @bruce_katz) Class inequality and 'the gospel of wealth' - in tackling such issues F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece has never been more relevant. The 'American dream' has always been an idea of failure.. Read On |
