News: Transit Resiliency, Des Moines BRT Stalls, Bike & Pedestrian Funding, TIF District Benefits, City Allergies
May 10, 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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Salt Lake City: Sugarhouse Streetcar Starts Construction Salt Lake Tribune Under the warm spring sun Wednesday, a crowd gathered at 2235 Main St. in South Salt Lake to celebrate the beginning of the long anticipated return of streetcars to the Salt Lake Valley... Read On |
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Pittsburgh: Impact of Port Authority Route Eliminations UCSUR Pub The Port Authority of Allegheny County has proposed a 35 percent service reduction to cope with a looming $64 million budget shortfall. These proposed cuts will eliminate 46 of 102 routes... Read On |
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Research: Framework for Resident Resiliency TRB TRIS This research will investigate the resiliency value of transit infrastructure and transit-oriented developments (TODs). Much of the early resiliency research was qualitative and looked at resiliency primarily through the lens of natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or terrorist attacks (Battelle 2007)... Read On |
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Des Moines: Plans for BRT Line Stall Des Moines Register Efforts to bring "rail-like" bus service to downtown Des Moines hit a speed bump this week when a significant piece of funding failed to get backing by Iowa lawmakers... Read On |
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National: Moynihan Station Work to Begin Wall Street Journal (via Streetsblog NYC) The first leg of construction on the future Moynihan Station will kick off later this year, the head of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said Tuesday... Read On |
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National: 4/5 Americans Want $$ for Bike/Walk Transportation Nation You always have to be a little leery when a group supporting a particular outcome puts out a poll showing support of that outcome, but an America Bikes poll being released today shows pretty lopsided results: a plurality (47%) of Americans wants more funding for bike and pedestrian programs... Read On |
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Boulder: City Struggles with Affordable Housing Daily Camera With legal, budgetary and market constraints, Boulder City Council members struggled to find consensus Tuesday night about how best to create more affordable housing... Read On |
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Florida: Redistricting Pits GOP v GOP in Mica's District ABC 13 Community and business leaders in affluent Seminole County talked about the jobs and economic development that will come from the new 61-mile commuter rail through Orlando. They praised the man who pushed hard for the $1.3 billion project and many others: Republican Rep. John Mica of Florida. .. Read On |
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National: iPhone App Checks Real Estate on the Fly Wall Street Journal Let's say you're walking around your neighborhood, or a neighborhood you'd like to make yours, and you spy a house you find interesting. Even if it isn't for sale, you can just whip out your iPhone, take a picture of the home and in less than a minute, you'll have an estimate of its price, plus details on its square footage, number of rooms, similar homes for sale and other facts... Read On |
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Hampton Roads: TIF District Has Done Its Job Virginian Pilot Fourteen years ago, Virginia Beach established the first tax-increment financing district in the state: 270 acres surrounding Lynnhaven Mall. The mall was the largest on the East Coast when it was built in 1981, but by 1996 its primacy had been lost... Read On |
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National: Why Are City Allergies Higher? Mother Jones Are you an urban-dweller who suffers from allergies? Maybe you need more bacteria in your life, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... Read On |
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National: House Votes to Drop Census ACS Huffington Post (via Bill S) The House voted Wednesday to eliminate the detailed surveys of America that have been conducted by the Census Bureau since the nation's earliest days... Read On |
