News: Seattle Classic Streetcars, Bay Area Needs 2nd Tube, Land Values & LRT, Cheap Vs. Long-Term Design, Renewal Without Displacement
June 18, 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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Seattle: Classic Streetcars Stuck at Dead End Seattle Times For the past seven years, a little bit of Seattle's soul has been collecting dust in a warehouse near Safeco Field. The George Benson Waterfront Streetcars - five classic, 1920s streetcars that ran from 1982 to 2005 - are in limbo, says Metro... Read On |
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Bay Area: Diridon Says Bay Area Needs Second Tube KQED BART service is back to normal. But transit experts say yesterday's shutdown was a harsh lesson in the need for backup for key facilities like BART or the Bay Bridge... Read On |
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Triangle: Let's Vote on It Transit Plan News and Observer As a citizen of Wake County since 1966 and in my role as co-chair of the Passenger Rail Task Force for the Raleigh City Council, I favor the proposed Wake County Transit Plan, and I am in favor of the half-cent sales tax that would fund it... Read On |
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Research: Vacant Land Values and Phoenix LRT TRB TRID (Abstract) The Phoenix METRO light rail line opened December 2008 as the nation's largest high capacity transit system starter line. Spanning 24 miles with 28 stations, METRO connected three cities with radically different land use policies... Read On |
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Seattle: Merchants Warn Against Cheaper Solutions Seattle Times The Bellevue Downtown Association warned city and Sound Transit officials Thursday not to sacrifice future light-rail ridership in the search for a cheaper downtown Bellevue station... Read On |
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National: What's Next for Housing, Sprawl? Wall Street Journal (via Streetsblog) As legend has it, Mark Twain once gave this famous investment advice: "Buy land; they're not making it anymore." During the housing boom, home builders heeded the author's famous witticism, snapping up hundreds of thousands of acres in and around U.S. cities... Read On |
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Research: Urban Renewal Without Displacement Journal of Housing and Built Environment (Abstract) Gentrification has become part and parcel of urban policies throughout the world. Critics have argued against those policies but they have not yet developed concrete and comprehensive alternatives... Read On |
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Research: Livable Centers and Planning Tools TRB TRIS (Abstract) The greater Houston region, the fifth largest metro region in the U.S., is projected to grow by an additional 3.5 million people by the year 2040. Strategies to effectively coordinate transportation and land use, and to measure the benefits of doing so, are actively needed by the Houston region as well as other growing regions of the nation... Read On |
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Research: Station Parking and Design TRB TRIS (Abstract) A simple analysis framework is presented in this paper to assist transit agencies and station area communities in making informed planning decisions regarding highest and best use of parking areas at suburban transit stations... Read On |
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Research: Transit Oriented Development in Copenhagen TRB TRIS (Abstract) Ørestad is Copenhagen's linear new town being built over a 30-year period around stations on an elevated, driverless mini-metro line. Copenhagen Metro's construction was to be financed by the sale to developers of publicly-owned land along the route... Read On |
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Research: Community Benefits Agreements City and Community Journal (Abstract) Large urban development projects highlight the vast disparities in the economic and political resources controlled by developers as compared to low-income residents. Studies have documented the negative impact of such projects on neighborhoods, such as the displacement of residents... Read On |
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National: High Tech LIDAR Mapping, Maps Building Austin American Statesman The images that Surveying and Mapping Inc. captured on East Sixth Street in Austin last July are eerie and amazing. Every architectural façade of every building is captured in accurate detail and so is every traffic barrier, every streetlight and every cable supporting traffic lights at the intersections... Read On |
