Blogosphere: Investing In Multipurpose Streets, Citywide Transport Planning, St. Louis TOD Market Study, Unburying Lexington Stream
| 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: Invest in Multipurpose Streets LA Streetsblog Municipal bond rates are at historic lows. A memo by two respected faculty members at the UCLA Anderson Forecast (available at Streetsblog, for some reason link to city website is broken) suggests the city take advantage of these low rates to fund a $3 billion program to resurface, rehabilitate, and reconstruct city streets... Read On |
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Blogosphere: DC Tries for Citywide Transport Planning Greater Greater Washington Today, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) took the cover off a new initiative called Move DC, a year-long process to build a comprehensive transportation plan... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Capping I-277 Not on To Do List Plan Charlotte The idea to put a roof on Interstate 277 tends to be what grabs people's attention, but that project is - if not back-burnered - far down on the Charlotte City Council's to-do list... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tennessee Calls of $1.5B HWY Project DC Streetsblog Last week Tennessee DOT commissioner John Schroer took to the pages of the Memphis Commercial Appeal to explain his decision to halt construction of his state's portion of I-69. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bottineau AA Shows Preferred Route Golden Valley Patch Faster travel time. More cost effective. Fewer traffic impacts. These are some of the D-1 alignment benefits outlined in a recently finished document that reviews Bottineau Transitway route alternatives... Read On |
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Blogosphere: St. Louis Metrolink TOD Market Study Citizens for Modern Transit East West Gateway Council of Governments has put forth a study on Transit Oriented Development as it relates to St. Louis MetroLink... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lexington Ky Wants to Unbury Stream Arch Paper After a century of looking outward, cities large and small are experiencing a renewed interest in downtown, taking stock of what was lost and building on what resources remain... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Density Sweet Density Joe Urban Two weeks ago on The Daily Circuit, outgoing Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak reflected on his term and the future of the city. What caught my attention (and certinaly caught host Kerri Miller's and several callers) was Rybak's claim that we can add 150,000 people to the city in the next few years... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Naperville Opens Data on Spending Next American City With smaller budgets, municipalities across the country have had to find ways to save money. Cities like Stockton, Calif. and Harrisburg, Pa. have filed for bankruptcy, while others have laid off teachers, police officers and other city workers... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Demanding Walkable Communities DC Streetsblog If you've had your head stuck inside street design manuals or engineering guides - if you've been thinking at the level of the bulb-out or the bollard - I've got a present for you... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Beijing Drowning in Lake of Smog The Atlantic Cities Even from the remote reaches of space, you can almost feel your bronchial trees heaving and dying when looking at this view of China's enduring air pollution... Read On |
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Blogosphere: World's Biggest Pop Up City The Atlantic Cities The largest human gathering in the world is going on right now. Upwards of a million pilgrims have already gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers allegedly meet a third, mythical river... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Five Stories of Inside the Book Thinking Rebuilding Place in Urban Space So you've heard of that brain teaser, about how to connect 9 dots organized as a square, with either three or four lines, without lifting your writing instrument from the paper. To succeed you have to write (and think) "outside the box.".. Read On |
