News: Tucson Streetcars, Fixing Highway Mistake, Dallas-Ft. Worth HSR, Walnut Creek TOD, East London Changes, Latin America Gentrification
July 20, 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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Tucson: FTA Urges City to Buy Another Streetcar Railway Age Tucson's order of seven streetcars from United Streetcar, LLC isn't adequate to serve the city's four-mile line, now under construction, the Federal Transit Administration says. FTA recommends an eighth car be purchased... Read On |
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New Haven: Plan to Right a Highway's Wrong New York Times In the 1950s, this city, like others, believed that the best way to get people back from the suburbs was to build more highways... Read On |
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Dallas: HSR Between Dallas and Fort Worth Fort Worth Star Telegram Bullet trains may someday whiz past motorists stuck in traffic on Interstate 30 between Fort Worth and Dallas. North Texas transportation planners say they want to study the feasibility of building elevated high-speed railroad tracks above the automobile lanes on I-30, creating room for trains capable of going up to 200 mph... Read On |
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Portland ME: Council Member Floats Streetcar Idea Portland Daily Sun City Councilor David Marshall expressed his desire to explore the feasibility of a streetcar system for Portland to a council subcommittee Wednesday night. Marshall said he'd like the city to establish a task force that would spearhead a feasibility study to explore the possibility of creating a streetcar or light rail system that would run through the downtown area... Read On |
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Bay Area: Walnut Creek TOD Finally Gets Moving San Jose Mercury News After nearly a decade of planning, one of the largest transit, commercial and housing projects in the city is finally moving forward... Read On |
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International: Changes Happening in East London National Geographic After the last customers had wiped the stray crumbs of meat pie from their faces. After the last jellied eel had slid down throats. After the last cup of tea had been swallowed, Fred Cooke, owner of F. Cooke's pie and mash shop at 41 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2JS, flipped the hand-printed cardboard sign on the front door of the establishment.. Read On |
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Research: Latino Gentrification in Latin American Cities Urban Studies Journal Although gentrification is an accepted process nowadays around the globe, little debate is found in the Latin American context-particularly, when considering that 70 per cent of this continent is urbanised... Read On |
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Research: Metro Development Models in Canadian Cities Urban Studies Journal The paper centres on the content of metropolitan-scale plans of the six largest Canadian urban regions. Plans in all these regions promote intensification and alternatives to automobile use, and thus adhere to smart growth and sustainability principles... Read On |
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Boulder: County Considers Open Space Purchases Denver Post Boulder County would pay a total of $8.85 million to buy 285 acres of properties, under a pair of transactions up for consideration by the county's Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee next week... Read On |
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Charlotte: N Tryon to Get Pocket Park Before DNC Charlotte Observer City officials have agreed to let the Foundation for the Carolinas proceed with transforming one of Charlotte's longest-running eyesores into a park before the Democratic National Convention in September... Read On |
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International: Olympic Investment, Junkyards to Parks Business Week I can see a bit of the London Olympic Stadium as traffic roars next to me along the busy Stratford High Street. I'm in a neighborhood that is supposed to benefit from London's 9.3-billion pound ($14.5 billion) investment.. Read On |
