News: Pedestrian Habits, Biking In Mexico, LA Vs. Beverly Hills, Defending ARC Decision, SF Losing Diversity, Urban Solar Farm
| 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: The Peculiar Habits of the Pedestrian Slate (Part 2 of Walking Series) What does famed urbanist William "Holly" Whyte have in common with David Simon's award-winning television series The Wire? They both understood the importance of street corners... Read On |
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Bay Area: BRT Key in Re-imagining El Camino Real Santa Clara Weekly Would you rather spend an afternoon strolling the Champs Elysees or the El Camino Real? Imagining the El Camino reaching the heights of Paris' grand boulevard is hard... Read On |
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International: Mexico City Residents Biking More Washington Post Hey, honey, let's go bicycling with the kids through downtown Mexico City! Just a few years ago, these would have been the words of a lone madman... Read On |
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Los Angeles: Metro Pushes Back on Beverly Hills Study LA Weekly The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority unsurprisingly gave the thumbs down to a report commissioned by the city of Beverly Hills, which found it would be unsafe to construct a subway tunnel underneath the campus of the Beverly Hills High School... Read On |
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Virginia Beach: Nov. LRT Referendum Gains Support Virginian Pilot It looks like residents will be voting in November on extending the Tide light-rail line into Virginia Beach. A few tweaks in the language of the proposed referendum appeared to satisfy a majority of City Council members on Tuesday... Read On |
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New Jersey: NJ Transit Boss Defends Christie's Decision Star Ledger In his first public comments since a federal report spurred questions about the math Gov. Chris Christie used to justify killing a Hudson River commuter rail tunnel, NJ Transit executive director Jim Weinstein today defended the governor's decision... Read On |
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California: Senators In No Hurry for HSR Los Angeles Times As California's high-speed rail leaders get set to approve a plan for the $68-billion system, some state legislators are putting on the brakes, saying the June budget deadline may be missed... Read On |
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Denver: Forum on Growth Notes Importance of Transit Denver Post Denver Mayor Michael Hancock told a group of more than 250 leaders on Tuesday that the development of the metro area's transit system is at a tipping point, one that requires cohesive, innovative and timely action... Read On |
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DC: Economics of Improving Corner Stores WAMU 88.5 DCentric The fallout continues over comments Councilman Marion Barry made about Asian-owned stores in Ward 8, calling them "dirty shops." Barry has since issued an apology, but a coalition of local and national Asian American groups have called for more meaningful engagement... Read On |
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San Francisco: Is SF Losing Diversity to the East Bay? San Francisco Bay Guardian San Francisco is increasingly losing its working and creative classes to the East Bay and other jurisdictions - and with them, much of the city's diversity - largely because of policy decisions that favor expensive, market-rate housing over the city's own affordable housing goals... Read On |
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Indianapolis: Urban Solar Farm at Public Housing Site Indianapolis Star A $10 million renovation of a Southside Indianapolis public housing apartment complex has been capped with sun power. City and federal officials today unveiled the first urban solar farm for the Indianapolis Housing Authority... Read On |
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Portland: Development Doesn't Get Any Easier in LA Daily Journal of Commerce For years, Portland-based property developers have explored development opportunities in Los Angeles. The metropolis' downtown area is always ripe for new housing, even during economic downturns, and enough land is available for development that both commercial and residential projects can be pursued... Read On |
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Boulder: City Trying to Envision New Heart Denver Post How to dream big and imagine the ideal heart at the center of Boulder -- while living within financial and geographical constraints -- is the challenge before city officials and the larger community as a planned revamp of the "civic center" gets under way... Read On |
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Minneapolis: Future Depends on Revitalizing North Side Minneapolis Star Tribune Mayor R. T. Rybak highlighted the need to bolster north Minneapolis in his State of the City address Wednesday, linking the fate of the struggling neighborhood with the wellbeing of the entire city... Read On |
