News: Twin Cities LRT Funding, Columbus BRT Line, Auto Lanes Vs BRT Lanes, Skylines & Shadows, Vietnam Dreams
May 25, 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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Twin Cities: LRT Planners Seek Econ Dev Funding Minnesota Public Radio Gov. Mark Dayton says the Southwest Light Rail Transit project is among his top transit priorities, but the Legislature adjourned without approving any money for the line... Read On |
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Columbus: Cleveland Avenue Could Get BRT Line Columbus Dispatch Faster, fancier bus service along Cleveland Avenue would end on the North Side instead of in Westerville as COTA had been considering. Central Ohio Transit Authority officials said yesterday that they've decided to focus plans for what's called "bus rapid-transit service" in the area of Cleveland Avenue that riders use the most... Read On |
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International: Windshield Perspective Against BRT Wall Street Journal Separate bus corridors, which eat into the space for private motor vehicles, have been a tough sell everywhere. In South Africa, efforts to put in place bus rapid transit, or BRT, between Soweto and richer parts of Johannesburg where jobs are, have been opposed by wealthy suburbanites worried about property values and by minibus owners worried about losing business... Read On |
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San Francisco: Is New Skyline Worth the Shadows? San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco has never seen a neighborhood plan as ambitious as the one that goes to the Planning Commission on Thursday, or one that so audaciously seeks to fit 21st century urban values into a 20th century frame... Read On |
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Bay Area: 300K Acres of Bay Area Open Space at Risk San Jose Mercury News Roughly 75 percent of all the land in the Bay Area is either permanently protected in parks or open space, or at low risk of development because it is zoned for farming or other rural uses... Read On |
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International: Land Conflicts Stunt Vietnam's Dreams Associated Press Do Quoc Tai is an unlikely pain in the side of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party. Although the construction foreman earns just $150 per month, he and his neighbors have strong-armed the government, blocking a major ring road that's a symbol of the country's push to modernize. Nearly four decades after Vietnam emerged from war, it now faces a make-or-break choice: build new roads and subways in its sprawling cities or remain stuck in the past, allowing fear of social unrest to hijack its development... Read On |
