News: National Freight Strategy Fight, Useful Road Diets, National TOD Outlook, DC Downtown Drives Pop Growth, Wal Mart Green Roof
August 28, 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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National: A Plan for Freight and a Fight National Journal Transportation Experts The administration on Thursday took a step toward creating a national freight strategy and toward a likely debate over the details. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Thursday announced the launch of the national Freight Policy Council.. Read On |
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San Francisco: Road Diets a Useful Tool San Francisco Examiner (via @streetsblogsf) Like anyone who has overindulged, San Francisco's streets sometimes benefit from a diet. But instead of eschewing fatty foods, roads can become healthier by reducing traffic lanes, widening sidewalks, adding bike paths and greening medians... Read On |
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Denver: Boulder Looks to Expand Transit Use Daily Camera Boulder residents and workers continue to get out of their cars and onto bikes and buses, but progress in reducing vehicle-miles is lagging behind the city's goals... Read On |
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Interview: The National TOD Outlook ULI Members of ULI's Transit-Oriented Development Council discuss the prospects for development around transit nodes-and the obstacles that remain. What are the prospects for transit-oriented development [TOD] in the next couple of years? .. Read On |
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Research: Do Natural Disasters Accelerate Decline Planning and Design Journal (Abstract) This study examines the impact of an abrupt catastrophic natural disaster on residential property vacancy and abandonment. Using the discrete-time hazard model with parcel-level land-use data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, from two years prior to and eight years after Hurricane Andrew... Read On |
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Charlotte: Food Trucks Allowed for DNC Charlotte Observer (via @mamakoid) Where will you get food during the Democratic National Convention? Two more sources were announced Thursday, both involving the Charlotte Area Transit System: a food vendor lineup during the DNC, and a new mobile produce market that will stick around after the visitors leave... Read On |
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DC: Downtown Drives City's Population Growth Washington Business Journal More than half of the District's roughly 30,000 new residents over the past decade chose to live downtown as development there boomed, attracting scores of urban professionals, according to an analysis by the city's Office of Revenue Analysis, the Washington Examiner reported... Read On |
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Portland: Wal Mart Will Have Largest Green Roof in City Daily Journal of Commerce Ground is scheduled to be broken today on a project to add a 90,000-square-foot Walmart store in North Portland, and company and city officials are excited about what will be on top... Read On |
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International: Silver Lining in Kolkata's Decline Wall Street Journal On vacation in Kolkata this past week, I have walked more than I have in an entire year in Gurgaon, exploring streets and alleys that I hadn't seen before, and admiring the colonial bungalows and latticed-verandahs of century-old multi-storied buildings... Read On |
