Blogoshpere: SF Bike Plan, Mica's Amtrak Grudge, LaHood Exit Interview, TIFIA Funds New Roads, Conservatives & Smart Growth, City Valentines
February 14, 2013
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| Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. |
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Blogosphere: Mayor Fails to Back SF Bike Strategy Streetsblog SF Mayor Ed Lee has made it clear that he has no plans to take leadership on funding San Francisco's vision for making bicycling a mainstream mode of transportation... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mica Won't Let Amtrak Grudge Die Streetsblog DC Rep. John Mica (R-FL) no longer chairs the House Transportation Committee, but that doesn't mean he's eased up on his crusade against Amtrak... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Ray LaHood Exit Interview Streetsblog DC I had the chance to sit down with Ray LaHood yesterday morning before he spoke to the U.S. High-Speed Rail Association... Read On |
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Blogosphere: TIFIA Funds Skewed Towards New Roads Transport Politic Thanks to last year's transportation authorization legislation and a lack of applications from transit authorities, aid from the TIFIA program is likely to be heavily biased towards roads projects... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Google's Driverless Car Become Reality? Forbes Chunka has posted his fourth installment in the Google driverless car story and as a critic of his first couple of pieces I feel obliged to review... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: Infrastructure, What Would Nature Do? ENSIA We humans are problem solvers. We're doers. We encounter challenges and complicated situations and we find ways to surmount them-crafting tools, erecting bridges, programming computers. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Stronger Regional Governance in Bay Silicon Valley Index Much of what makes Silicon Valley and the overall nine-county Bay Area a great place to live and work is the result of regional decisions. Over half a century ago, leaders in the Bay Area looked to the future and made choices involving tradeoffs and sacrifices... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Should Conservatives want Smart Growth? California Planning and Development Report As this blog has reported, the standard conservative critique of smart growth and "good" planning sometimes doesn't seem very logical... Read On |
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Blogosphere: City Valentines CEOs for Cities If cities gave out Valentines, what would they say? We took a quick stab at it-- so you can share or give them to the thought leaders and city advocates in your life! What would your City Valentine say?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Affordable, Family, Transit Friendly Housing Seattle Transit Blog Debates about how we ought to design our communities often get lost in the weeds fairly quickly: "build this! don't build that! more density! less density! streetcars! none of the above! all of the above!".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: What to Consider When Moving to New City Urban Times With the tumultuous economy and changing job market, more people are relocating to new cities. Whether for a new job, a family decision or just to explore a new city, consumers need specific information to determine where to move and to predict how this move will affect them... Read On |
