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May 31, 2012|Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Virtually every person in charge of planning our transportation system and developing our land owns a car. They don't live the reality of long tortuous 3 hour bus commutes, walking through broken glass on crumbling highway shoulders (there are no sidewalks) or getting bottles thrown out of car windows at them by angry motorists [while riding a bike]." Read On
News: US Highway Aid Disparity, Transit Social Benefits, Mesa LRT Extension, Megacities For Poor, Graduate Clustering
May 31, 2012
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Research: Donor vs Donee States in US Highway Aid
Springer Transportation
In 2009, the US government spent more than $42 billion on the federal-aid highway program. Most of this money was raised from motor vehicle taxes, whose proceeds are deposited in the highway trust fund...
Read On Research: Long Term Social Benefits of Transit TRB TRIS
Standard cost benefit analysis (CBA) is often criticised for not taking land use effects induced by transport investments and wider economic benefits into account...
In 2009, the US government spent more than $42 billion on the federal-aid highway program. Most of this money was raised from motor vehicle taxes, whose proceeds are deposited in the highway trust fund...
Read On Research: Long Term Social Benefits of Transit TRB TRIS
Standard cost benefit analysis (CBA) is often criticised for not taking land use effects induced by transport investments and wider economic benefits into account...
Blogosphere: Private LRT Funding In Detroit, US HSR Future, DC Streetcar Revitalization, Kansas City Rail Future, Indy Regional Bike Map
May 31, 2012
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Blogosphere: Private Funding of Detroit Project Gift
Forbes
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood is coming to Detroit on Monday and the city's most prominent business leaders have their fingers crossed that he'll deliver the federal government's blessing on a long-awaited light rail project downtown...
Read On Blogosphere: Is HSR Pulling Into a City Near You? Chicago Policy Review…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood is coming to Detroit on Monday and the city's most prominent business leaders have their fingers crossed that he'll deliver the federal government's blessing on a long-awaited light rail project downtown...
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Quote of the Day
May 30, 2012|Scientific American
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"Economic growth cannot be assumed to lift all urban citizens into a zone of better health. In many urban areas, rich people and poor people live in different epidemiological worlds, and the burden of ill-health is highest in the poorest groups. " Read On
News: Seattle Parking Debate, San Marcos TX Transit Plans, Infrastructure Bank Test Run, Jobs & Mobility, Youthful Calgary, Interior Gardens
May 30, 2012
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Seattle: Parking Plan for Northgate Triggers Debate
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A plan to build a large parking garage near Sound Transit's future Northgate light rail station has some community groups up in arms. Transit officials last week gave a closer peek at plans for development around the station, which is scheduled to open in 2021...
Read On Austin: San Marcos Looks to Expand Transit System Austin American Statesman
Though the urban transit district…
A plan to build a large parking garage near Sound Transit's future Northgate light rail station has some community groups up in arms. Transit officials last week gave a closer peek at plans for development around the station, which is scheduled to open in 2021...
Read On Austin: San Marcos Looks to Expand Transit System Austin American Statesman
Though the urban transit district…
Blogosphere: LA Fare Evasion, How NY Rides Bikes, NC Transit Vote, Urban Ag, London's Urban Foxes, Pseudo Suburbanists
May 30, 2012
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Blogosphere: Does Locking Gates Make Fiscal Sense?
LA Streetsblog
One justification offered for the need to gate Los Angeles' rail system is that the present "Proof-of-Payment" system is evaded by a large number of people and that gates will increase revenue collection. This presumes only gating can reduce the level of fare evasion occurring...
Read On Blogosphere: This is How We Ride New York…
One justification offered for the need to gate Los Angeles' rail system is that the present "Proof-of-Payment" system is evaded by a large number of people and that gates will increase revenue collection. This presumes only gating can reduce the level of fare evasion occurring...
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Quote of the Day
May 29, 2012|CNN
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"It was right next to the railway track, which most people had a total aversion about. No one wanted to live here and people were going 'Adam, you must be out of your mind. What would compel you to do that?" Read On
News: LA's Rail Mojo, America's Love Affair With Cars, Oakland's Coliseum Dilemma, East London's Olympic Boom, DC Growth Demographics
May 29, 2012
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Los Angeles: LA Getting its Rail Mojo Back
Sacramento Bee
It took more than a half-century, but this megalopolis that long ago turned its back on cheap street trolleys like the Red Car in favor of car-choked concrete superhighways is finally getting its rail mojo back...
Read On North Carolina: State Seeks to Pave Last Dirt Roads Charlotte Observer
Mark Teague Road near Pittsboro in rural Chatham County is a half-mile-long strip of gravel that cuts through some woods and then…
It took more than a half-century, but this megalopolis that long ago turned its back on cheap street trolleys like the Red Car in favor of car-choked concrete superhighways is finally getting its rail mojo back...
Read On North Carolina: State Seeks to Pave Last Dirt Roads Charlotte Observer
Mark Teague Road near Pittsboro in rural Chatham County is a half-mile-long strip of gravel that cuts through some woods and then…
Blogosphere: Value Of Walkability, Rural Transit, LA Rail Car Job Loss, Densit & Transit, Desegregating Cities, Case For LA TOD
May 29, 2012
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Opinion: Walkability Has Great Value
New York Times
WALKING isn't just good for you. It has become an indicator of your socioeconomic status. Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing...
Read On Blogosphere: Making Rural Transit Work DC Streetsblog
Transit in rural areas is tricky. Folks need to go…
WALKING isn't just good for you. It has become an indicator of your socioeconomic status. Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing...
Read On Blogosphere: Making Rural Transit Work DC Streetsblog
Transit in rural areas is tricky. Folks need to go…
Quote of the Day
May 25, 2012|Wall Street Journal Delhi Journal
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"The bus user doesn't have a plane to catch, three to four minutes for him doesn't make any difference." Read On
