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Salt Lake City: UTA Raises Rail Budget 27%
Salt Lake Tribune
As the Utah Transit Authority gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a 2013 budget that will spike spending on its growing train operations by 27 percent, it also cleared the next-to-last stop toward borrowing another $180 million to help pay for constructing new TRAX and FrontRunner lines...
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Anaheim: City OKs Streetcar Plan
OC Register
The City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to support the concept of building a $319 million streetcar system that could transport thousands of employees and millions of tourists each year...
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National: CA GHG Law Faces Challenges
Transportation Nation
The future of California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law is being called into question. Implementation of the law was delayed earlier this year by a U.S. District Court judge in Fresno, who ruled that the regulations violate the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution...
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International: Urban Land May Triple by 2030
Scientific American (via @tdechant)
More than half of the world's expected nine billion people will live in giant urban expanses by 2030 as cities and their hinterlands occupy an additional 1.2 million square kilometers, thereby tripling in size...
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San Francisco: Amazon Building Signals Office Revival
San Francisco Chronicle
Amazon.com Inc., which agreed to buy its Seattle headquarters for $1.16 billion, plans to start construction next year on the first of three new buildings that would add another 3 million square feet (278,700 square meters) as technology companies expand and invest in real estate...
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National: More Young Adults Moving Out of Their States
Canton Rep
Their lives on hold for years, young adults are now making big moves in the fledgling economic recovery, leaving college towns or parents' homes and heading out of state at the highest rate since the height of the housing boom...
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Boston: Kendall Square Boom Squeezes Startups
Boston Globe
After working out of shared space for three years, Raj Aggarwal's mobile start-up is now successful enough to have its own address. But instead of staying in Kendall Square where it has thrived, Localytics is about to join the ranks of small tech companies moving out of the Cambridge hot spot...
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National: Cottage Industry Builds for Students
Wall Street Journal
Going away to school no longer means being stacked in blocky dormitories and sleeping in wooden bunk beds bolted to the wall. As we write today, developers are building student housing that looks more like a single-family home...
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