News: Walking To Transit, Downfall Of Libertarian Bus Service, Utah Transit Agency Lobbying, Education And Location, Austin Growth Plan
June 11, 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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Pittsburgh: Longer Walk to T Frustrates Some Pittsburgh Post Gazette Nick Salmen and his family rented an apartment in Beechview because it was close to the Traymore stop on Port Authority's Red Line. Having no car, they use the T to get around, sometimes riding up the line to the Hampshire stop in the neighborhood's business district... Read On |
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National: Chinatown Buses and Libertarianism Salon Last week marked the symbolic end of a libertarian experiment in transit. Fourteen years after Fung Wah sent its first bus from New York City to Boston, the feds shut down 26 curbside bus operators, many of them the now-famous Chinatown fleets that made super-cheap East Coast city hopping feel like an inalienable right... Read On |
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National: UTA Lobbies More Than Other Agencies Real Clear Politics The Utah Transit Agency spends more on lobbying in Washington, D.C., than any transit agency in the country _ more than Houston, Philadelphia or Denver, records show. It spends more than Phoenix, Oakland, Calif., and San Jose, Calif., transit agencies combined... Read On |
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Portland: $400M to Cap I-5 Oregonian A stakeholder's advisory committee voted 13-3 Thursday, with two undecideds, to approve a draft of a $400 million plan to improve surface streets, widen Interstate 5 and cap the freeway around Portland's Rose Quarter... Read On |
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Salt Lake City: Residents Love Thier Trails Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake County residents want to see more trails winding through their communities - and they're willing to see tax dollars spent to develop hiking and biking paths... Read On |
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Virginia: Dulles Trapezoid Could be Anchor Washington Post There's a clear view of it from the car window shortly after leaving Dulles International Airport: a glass-covered trapezoid rising from the landscape near the intersection of the toll road and Route 28... Read On |
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Research: Education and the Location of Work Annals of Regional Science (Abstract) Using data on individuals from the 2008 American Community Survey, we examine the relationship between educational attainment and the location of jobs in fifteen large metropolitan areas in the United States... Read On |
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Austin: City Council To Vote Growth Plan Austin American Statesman When asked why Austinites should care about a new comprehensive plan the City Council is poised to adopt, city planner Garner Stoll points to a mostly dilapidated neighborhood in Northeast Austin... Read On |
