News: Potholes & Data, Vancouver LRT Tax, Induction Powered Tram, Bikes & Trains, Pittsburgh's Stop Loss, Data Vs. Ideology
June 13, 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: Tapping 'Big Data' to Fill Potholes Wall Street Journal Entrepreneurs and investors are finding new ways to tap the predictive power of numbers, including ways to kill the traffic jam and other motorist scourges such as potholes... Read On |
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California: Sierra Club, NRDC Oppose CEQA Softening LA Times Two national environmental organizations have notified Gov. Jerry Brown that they strongly oppose his proposals to significantly diminish the ability of environmental lawsuits to stop or delay the California high speed rail project... Read On |
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Vancouver: Council Endorses Tax for Light Rail Columbian The Vancouver City Council on Monday endorsed a sales tax increase to pay for light rail in Clark County, ending a fast-tracked search for funding options that ultimately ended right back where it started... Read On |
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International: Induction Powered Tram a Success Railway Gazette International Bombardier Transportation has successfully completed testing of its Primove catenary-free power system on a branch of the Augsburg tram network. .. Read On |
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National: Bikes and Trains Could Boom Together Transportation Nation In central Florida the car rules. A network of wide highways link sprawling cities. But now two machines which saw their heyday in Florida more than a century ago are making a comeback: the train and the bike... Read On |
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Pittsburgh: Panic Over Stop Closures Pittsburgh Post Gazette No one likes to lose their transit stop. But some of the commentary about the Port Authority's elimination of 13 stops on the T borders on hysteria. At a meeting in Castle Shannon on Monday, critics said the closing of the Martin Villa and Smith Road stops would pose a danger to riders... Read On |
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Portland: United Streetcar Months Behind Schedule Oregonian Portland's $148.3 million eastside streetcar line will open ceremoniously in September, but it's increasingly unlikely that the star of the show -- America's only domestically produced modern streetcar -- will be ready... Read On |
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Houston: County Fires Warning Shot Over Transit Money Houston Chronicle In its last two meetings, Harris County Commissioners Court has made it clear where it stands on the issue of "general mobility payments," that wonky-sounding river of cash the Metropolitan Transit Authority has been shoveling to local governments for road work that voters must soon decide whether to keep flowing... Read On |
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San Francisco: Agency Has Neglected Maintenance SF Weekly In early 2011, Dorian Maxwell decided he'd rather not set foot on a Muni bus. That's a decision thousands of fellow San Franciscans make every day - but in Maxwell's case, it loomed larger. He was a bus driver... Read On |
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International: Gated Community Neighbors Meet Online Washington Post (via @blackurbanist) Sumit Jain has fond memories of his childhood in a small town where everybody knew everybody. But as a young man, he moved to a big city for work and began living in an apartment building. Jain said he soon missed feeling connected to a community... Read On |
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International: Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home MSNBC To Luke Skywalker, it wasn't exactly home sweet home. As fans of "Star Wars" know well, young Skywalker longed to fly away from his home planet of Tattooine, where he worked with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Lars on the family moisture farm... Read On |
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Los Angeles: Expo Making South LA More Accessible Intersections South LA The Expo Line is Los Angeles' newest addition to its light rail and subway system. Following an old rail line, it runs from downtown's transit hub at 7th Street and currently ends at La Cienega and Jefferson. (The final stop of this phase of construction will be in Culver City, but that extension isn't finished yet.).. Read On |
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National: Don't Replace Data with Ideology Bloomberg Argentina's government regularly publishes false data on the country's inflation rate. Greece lied about the size of its budget deficit. Believe it or not, the U.S. is headed down a path that could ultimately make similar shenanigans possible in the world's largest economy. .. Read On |
