Blogosphere: SF Bikeway Costs, Chicago BRT Gridlock Worries, Infra Bank Bill Returns, Climate Change & Transpo, City As Power Plant
| 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: Mission Bikeway Would Cost More SF Streetsblog Constructing raised, protected bike lanes on downtown Mission Street would cost more than building them on Market, according to SF Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Reporter Worries about BRT Gridlock Chicago Streetsblog In a recent CBS Chicago TV editorial, veteran news personality Walter Jacobson panicked that the city's proposal for the Central Loop BRT corridor would "create a gridlock of the world," but he's wildly unclear on the concept... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bike Lanes Prominent at Austin's Mueller People for Bikes The first thing that struck me when I walked into the main administrative building for Austin's Mueller subdivision was the mounted bicycle hanging in the window... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Could LaHood Stick Around for Sequester DC Streetsblog It's been almost a month since Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced his resignation - and longer than that since he tipped off the president that he was planning his exit - but no replacement has been named yet... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Senators Reintroduce Infra Bank DC Streetsblog These two men are serious about creating an infrastructure bank before they leave office. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) - both titans of the Commerce Committee, both retiring in 2015 - yesterday re-introduced legislation to create such a bank... Read On |
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Blogosphere: DC Finishes Streetcar...Website Greater Greater Washington The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is stepping up its communication around the streetcar project, with a new website, a meeting to update residents last night, and better efforts to engage neighbors on issues like the maintenance facility on Benning Road... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Every City Needs Pedestrian Lucha Libre Atlantic Cities You know how it feels when you're trying to cross the street and a driver comes through the intersection as if you're not even there? Like he's muscling through with that big box of metal.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Wireless Charging of Electric Buses Gizmag via Transportation Nation Regional German transport operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) is set to carry out a pilot project to test the viability of wireless inductive charging technology of electric buses... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rasta Tube Announcer Urges 'Ride Happy' Vice via Transportation Nation Unless you're a complete masochist with a penchant for strangers sneezing in your mouth, you'll hate the London Underground during rush hour... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Climate Change & Role of Transportation WBUR The transportation of people and goods from one place to another creates about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, 80 percent comes from cars and trucks... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Denver's Frequent Transit Map Denver Urbanism (via BS) Do you know which RTD bus routes come often enough to take without worrying about a timetable? This new map illustrates exactly that, by adding bus routes that come at least every 15 minutes all day to the well-known FasTracks rail map... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Regional Innovation Clusters Adding Up Brookings Up Front One frequent criticism of the Obama administration's welcome conviction on economic regionalism-epitomized by its programs to stimulate regional industry clusters with small matching grants usually in the $1 million to $2 million range-is that it remains small bore... Read On |
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Blogosphere: CA's Open Meetings Act Needs Update City Journal One of California's most influential pieces of legislation turns 60 this year with nary a champagne cork popped. With due deference to the recently departed Huell Howser, the Brown Act, which lays out open-meeting practices for municipal governments, is indeed a piece of "California's Gold.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tree Covered Skyscraper Rises in Milan Business Insider Forget London's monolithic new Shard, all eyes will surely be on the Bosco Verticale when it opens in Milan at the end of this year... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Re-imagining the Caltrain Railyards SPUR Could the Caltrain station and railyards at 4th and King streets be San Francisco's next big planning opportunity? The current station is the node that links San Francisco to Silicon Valley and the peninsula... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mapping Data-Dense Cities as Mountains Atlantic Cities The New York City Police Department publishes an incredibly dense database every year of the profiles of controversial "stop-and-frisk" encounters between officers and residents throughout the city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Scaling Systems to Make Them Sustainable ASLA Dirt At the Innovative Metropolis conference organized by the Brookings Institution and Washington University in St. Louis, cutting-edge designers and policymakers explained how some cities can use a systems-based approach to become more sustainable... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Design in a Dismal Weather Climate SERA Blog It all started when I needed a place to eat my lunch. As a strong believer in the lunch break, I noticed that I had been skipping my noontime intermission. Our resilient foodcart owners are still peddling tom kha soup, but where do I go to eat it?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: From Preservation to Pioneering Global Site Plans In a period of rapid urbanization, many cities are faced with the challenge of reconciling seemingly contradictory objectives. One of the most pressing of these challenges is the imperative to conserve valued and significant buildings and streetscapes of the past whilst providing the infrastructure for modern.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Do You Know Where Materials are From? Sustainable Industries The phone call had to rank among one of the most frustrating moments for one of our young project engineers. Hard at work in Seattle on the Bertschi School's Science Classroom Building - designed to be the first Living Building for a school in Washington state.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Turning City into a Power Plant Pop Up City Last year we told you about energy parasites and the efforts of groups of people to capture spoiled energy in the city and make it useful for other purposes... Read On |
