News: Toronto's Relief LIne, Tampa Transit Tax, Houston HSR, California HSR Drops Anaheim, Pollution Property Price, China Enclave Urbanism
April 9, 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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Toronto: The Downtown Relief Line Toronto Star How do you spell relief if you ride the south end of the Yonge subway? D-R-L - downtown relief line. Since 1910, when the idea first emerged of a transit line connecting the east end of Toronto with the south end of Yonge St., the DRL has gained very little traction... Read On |
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Tampa: City Tax Could Pay for Transit Tampa Tribune Two years after Hillsborough County residents turned down a sales tax referendum to support light rail, some Tampa City Council members favor giving Florida's large cities the power to hold their own sales tax votes... Read On |
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Fort Worth: Rail Station Plan Stirs Controversy Fort Worth Star Telegram Many Mistletoe Heights residents agree traffic is a growing problem in their century-old neighborhood. But they disagree about a proposal to build a train station in their well-groomed area just southwest of downtown Fort Worth... Read On |
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Texas: Jackson Lee Presses for HSR in State Houston Chronicle Officials in Japan and South Korea told Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee that they are interested in helping Texas build a high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas... Read On |
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California: CAHSR Drops Anaheim San Francisco Chronicle The route of the planned Bay Area-to-Southern California high speed train system will stop short of Anaheim, state rail officials said... Read On |
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Atlanta: MARTA Pins LRT Hopes on New Sales Tax Atlanta Journal Constitution MARTA board members are to decide Monday whether to move forward with plans for its first major expansion since it ran rail to North Springs in 2000. They only have to find an estimated $1.6 billion to lay nearly nine miles of track... Read On |
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Twin Cities: Central Corridor Already Inspiring Projects Pioneer Press The Central Corridor light-rail line won't connect downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis until 2014, but some churches, youth advocates, bicycle aficionados and other nonprofits are eager to jump aboard immediately... Read On |
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Dallas: Orange Line Starts Testing Soon Dallas Business Journals Dallas Area Rapid Transit will run its first test of a light rail train on the 5-mile extension of the Orange Line into Irving on Monday. The Orange Line train will travel from Bachman Station to the Irving Convention Center... Read On |
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Charlotte: Red Line Critics Criticized Charlotte Observer A proponent of the $452 Re Line Regional project is criticizing opponents of the dual freight-commuter rail plan, saying the implications of not having the line "could be severe" to the future of the Charlotte region... Read On |
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National: Should LA New Yorkify? New York Times Room for Debate Ah, Hollywood. The idea of it conjures fantasy worlds, but the reality involves a popular but gritty neighborhood that's going through some growing pains. A new rezoning plan is proposing that the low-rise, car-centric Hollywood of yore be replaced by skyscrapers and public transit hubs... Read On |
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Research: Impact of Pollution on Property Prices Journal of Geographical Systems Much work has been done in the context of the hedonic price theory to estimate the impact of air quality on housing prices. Research has employed objective measures of air quality, but only slightly confirms the hedonic theory in the best of cases... Read On |
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Research: Enclave Urbanism in China Journal of Urban Geography Following reforms enacted since the late 1970s, domestic and foreign investments are resulting in a dramatic transformation of China's landscape. The concentrated Maoist city with its cellular multifunctional work-unit structure is disappearing... Read On |
