Blogosphere: Taxes and Urban Mobility, Amtrak & FRA Rules, Avis Buys Zipcar, Twin Cities Jobs & Transit, HSR Hubs Attracting TOD, Mapping Broklyn Gentrification
January 3, 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: Taxes and Urban Mobility Revolution Bacon's Rebellion Del. Tim Hugo, R-Centreville, has proposed eliminating Virginia's motor fuels tax and replacing it with a 0.9% increase in the state sales tax, the Times-Dispatch reports today... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Amtrak Seeks to Escape FRA's Rules Slate Moneybox Here's some random good news of the day-Amtrak is going to push to get the Federal Rail Administration to change the safety regulations that force its passenger trains to be much heavier than the ones used in Europe and Japan. Europe and Japan being, as you may have noticed, places where know a thing or two about how to operate passenger trains... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Avis Acquires Zipcar DC Streetsblog In a sign of the increasing market for car-sharing, Avis car rental is expected to purchase Zipcar today for a tidy $500 million. With the acquisition, the car rental giant will begin offering short-term car rentals, as have competitors Global and Enterprise... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why This CEO Doesn't Own a Car Fast Company (via @mikelydon) I know it may seem odd for a business executive, but I don't even own a car. We're living at a time when a major shift in attitudes is bringing on a new era--one in which people get more value by owning less property... Read On |
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Editorial: Seeking New Jobs Near Transit Hubs Minneapolis Star Tribune With the nation's 13th-largest metro economy and a relatively high potential for growth, Minneapolis-St. Paul could soon begin to generate new jobs in a noticeable way. If that happens, it matters where those jobs are located... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Your City Without Light Pollution Grist Photographer Thierry Cohen's "Darkened Cities" series shows what the night sky might look like after humans and their light pollution are wiped off the planet... Read On |
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Blogosphere: HSR Hubs Attracting Urban Development Citizens for Modern Transit High-speed rail (HSR) has long been touted as a tool of economic development in addition to its primary function of improving connectivity and ease of travel. It now seems that high-speed rail also has the potential to contribute to the nation's urban revitalization trends... Read On |
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Blogosphere: When the Sidewalk Becomes a Waterbed Pop Up City Artist collective Raum created a very special pavement in Bourges, France. What characterizes this pavement is that it isn't hard, but floats. The project, called 'La Ville Molle' ('The Soft City'), questions the hardness of the city and its ability to change.... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Metropolitan Imagination Next American City I've been spending a lot of time these days stuck in the past-that is, with my nose stuck in books about Mumbai's past. And, as I've written, it's helped me realize just how many stories the city structure itself has to tell about its present... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Rent Control Good Policy? Urban Institute Metro Trends The U.S. rental housing market has come under increasing strain recently. As homeowners with unsustainable mortgages have to leave their homes and fewer homebuyers are able to qualify for new mortgages, more people are looking for places to rent... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mapping Brooklyn's Spiky Gentrification The Atlantic Cities That Brooklyn houses one of New York City's hottest real estate markets is old news. But a look at some new data shows how uneven and concentrated the borough's transformation is. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: History Puts Cartographer's Art On the Map NPR The fight for mapping supremacy between two tech giants blew up this fall when Apple, in revising its mobile operating system, dumped the Google Maps app overboard... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Fiscal Cliff Eases Housing Market Housing Wire (via @RwhelanWSJ) Many would call 2012 a turnaround year for housing. Even moreso, 2012 also appeared to be the year of the short sale. In fact, short sales rose 22% in 2012, according to a report released by RealtyTrac... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Gentrification of Hollywood LA Weekly In the 1960s, Mercedes Cortes arrived in Hollywood after fleeing her homeland of Guatemala, which was roiled by bloody unrest... Read On |
