Blogosphere: The War on Mock Wars
May 31, 2011|City Tank
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There are people among us who are waging a war, make no mistake, baldfaced or otherwise. Self-righteous ideologues, they seek to impose their unorthodox values on good Americans... Read On
Blogosphere: Jamestown Mall for Redevelopment
May 31, 2011|Urban Review St. Louis
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Jamestown Mall (map link) isn't even 40 years old but St. Louis County officials are ready to put it out of it's misery:.. Read On
Blogosphere: Johannesburg's Transit Breakthrough
May 31, 2011|Citiscope
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Waiting, waiting, without facilities, still waiting, crammed, hemmed in, no brakes, no license, angry club-wielding drivers fighting for the most lucrative routes. Weaving haphazardly through traffic at often frightening speeds. .. Scrabbling for the right coins... Read On
Blogosphere: American Bus Rapid Transit Can Catch Up
May 31, 2011|DC Streetsblog
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Attempts by U.S. cities to build Bus Rapid Transit systems tend to get stymied by a Catch-22: Most Americans have no experience riding great BRT, so mustering the political will to build full-fledged systems - and reallocate the necessary street space from cars to buses - is often fiendishly difficult... Read On
Editorial: A New Name for Lane Transit
May 31, 2011|Eugene Register Guard
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Maybe Ron Kilcoyne's lack of familiarity with bus rapid transit systems is an asset. The Lane Transit District has reached a critical point in the development of its EmX system, with opponents claiming transit officials have been deaf to their objections and concerns... Read On
Editorial: Ethics at the Utah Transit Authority
May 31, 2011|Salt Lake Tribune
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As Randy Jackson might put it, the trustees at the Utah Transit Authority are a little pitchy, dawg, if not downright tone deaf, when it comes to ethics. Allow us to elaborate... Read On
Blogosphere: Where the High Line Disappears
May 31, 2011|Untapped Cities
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Section 2 of the High Line may be opening soon, but we went to check out controversial Section 3, along Hudson Yards. This section isn't owned by the city yet-which means it could still be demolished-but in July 2010 it passed the ULURP review process... Read On
Blogosphere: Cox - Transit Only 4% Solution
May 31, 2011|New Geography
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A new Brookings Institution report provides an unprecedented glimpse into the lack of potential for transit to make a more meaningful contribution to mobility in the nation's metropolitan areas. The report, entitled Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America, provides estimates of the percentage of jobs that can be accessed by transit in 45, 60 or 90 minutes, one-way, by residents of the 100 largest US metropolitan areas... Read On
Blogosphere: Pockets of Transit Accessibility
May 31, 2011|The New Republic
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After nearly two years of compiling and analyzing transit data from across the country, our recent paper, Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America, analyzes how many jobs are accessible by public transportation--be it bus, train, boat, funicular, anything--in ninety minutes... Read On
Blogosphere: Build Tall Near Transit
May 31, 2011|Yglesias
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So there's a giant clusterf**k building in Northern Virginia around the Mark Center which "will soon be the workplace of 6,400 federal employees, under the Defense Department's Base Closure and Realignment, or BRAC, process."... Read On