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Reconnecting at CNU Transportation Summit

Reconnecting America attended the Congress for New Urbanism Transportation Summit in Portland. Below are all of the Tweets from #cnutrans.

User Date Time Tweet
josephreaddy 11/11/09 7:57 AM RT @NewUrbanism: Don't miss this great #cnutrans report from @Streetsblog-SF Former Texas Rep Krusee says: No Road Pays for Itself. None ...
ResonantDev 11/11/09 7:13 AM #cnutrans report @Streetsblog-SF "No Road Pays for Itself." None. http://bit.ly/3g0mUb @HillsboroughMPO @ConnectUSHSR
NewUrbanism 11/11/09 6:51 AM Don't miss this great #cnutrans report from @Streetsblog-SF Former Texas Rep Krusee says: No Road Pays for Itself. None.http://bit.ly/3g0mUb
commers 11/9/09 10:40 AM Graphic from Donjek, Musty and Lander describes economic/fiscal impact of walkable transit-oriented development: http://ur.ly/38OC #CNUTrans
gosner 11/7/09 10:44 AM CNU Transpo Summit report-areas built b4 1950 are safer tahn those after: "Cul-de-sacs Kill!" http://j.mp/2Y8UC9 #CNUtrans
BruceMcF 11/6/09 3:31 PM RT @reconnecting Bike parking in car spaces. #cnutrans http://twitpic.com/oiwtr || What a loverly picture that is!
gbeltalliance 11/6/09 3:14 PM RT @reconnecting: A 10% increase in densities increases transit demand 2.4% #cnutrans
bikepedSCAG 11/6/09 1:59 PM RT @reconnecting: Bike parking in car spaces. #cnutrans http://twitpic.com/oiwtr
reconnecting 11/6/09 1:45 PM RT @StreetsblogSF: #cnutrans. Texas Rep Krusee says "No Road Pays for Itself. None." http://bit.ly/3g0mUb
reconnecting 11/6/09 1:43 PM Bike parking in car spaces. #cnutrans http://twitpic.com/oiwtr
StreetsblogSF 11/6/09 1:39 PM #cnutrans. Texas Rep Krusee says "No Road Pays for Itself. None." http://bit.ly/3g0mUb
CNT_tweets 11/6/09 12:49 PM RT @reconnecting: Frank: Biggest predictor of VMT was increases intersection density #cnutrans
russellpreston 11/6/09 12:16 PM RT @reconnecting: Lawrence Frank: As intersection density increases volatile organic compounds VOCs decrease. #cnutrans
lauraduran 11/6/09 11:55 AM RT @HoustonTomorrow: #cnutrans -Curtis: 80% of the cure for health care is eat less, walk more.
lauraduran 11/6/09 11:53 AM RT @HoustonTomorrow: #CNUtrans Scott Polikov: It's not about land use; it's about development patterns.
CNT_tweets 11/6/09 11:46 AM RT @reconnecting: Frank: A 10% increase in densities increases transit demand 2.4% #cnutrans
reconnecting 11/6/09 10:04 AM Frank: Biggest predictor of VMT was increases intersection density #cnutrans
reconnecting 11/6/09 10:03 AM Frank: A 10% increase in densities increases transi emand 2.4% #cnutrans
reconnecting 11/6/09 10:00 AM Lawrence Frank: As intersection density increases volatile organic compounds VOCs decrease. #cnutrans
svrdesign 11/6/09 8:48 AM RT @gosner CNU Transpo Summit is going on right now in Portland--follow at #CNUtrans - http://bit.ly/3VemoP
CNT_tweets 11/6/09 7:43 AM RT @gosner: CNU Transpo Summit is going on right now in Portland--follow at #CNUtrans - http://bit.ly/3VemoP
gosner 11/6/09 7:32 AM CNU Transpo Summit is going on right now in Portland--follow at #CNUtrans - http://bit.ly/3VemoP
urbandata 11/5/09 10:18 PM RT @reconnecting Krusee: Funding freeways w/ gas tax = huge transfer of wealth from cities to suburbs #cnutrans via @Tom_Harned
jsommer16 11/5/09 9:14 PM RT @HoustonTomorrow #cnutrans Cortright: each 1 pt incr in Walk Score was associated with $700 to 3000 incr in home value
CNT_tweets 11/5/09 8:19 PM RT@NewUrbanism Scott Bernstein: 10-15 miles outside every major city, housing prices drop precipitously & transpo costs rise. #CNUtrans
romeroarch 11/5/09 6:14 PM RT @russellpreston RT @HoustonTomorrow #cnutrans Cortright: each 1 pt incr in Walk Score was associated with $700 to 3000 incr in home value
coreyvickers 11/5/09 4:33 PM RT @HoustonTomorrow: #cnutrans -Curtis: 80% of the cure for health care is eat less, walk more. - Right on!
urbandata 11/5/09 4:26 PM Too bad bike/ped =1% of Fed trans funds @t4america RT @HoustonTomorrow #cnutrans Curtis: 80% of cure for health care $ = eat less, walk more
urbandata 11/5/09 4:20 PM RT @NewUrbanism Scott Bernstein: 15mi outside every major city, housing prices drop precipitously & transpo costs rise #CNUtrans #realestate
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:51 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: So we need to meter up stuff and pay attention.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:51 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: 80% of the cure for health care is eat less, walk more.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:50 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: the busines model? services solutions!
Bigfreezer 11/5/09 3:45 PM Make no small plans RT @reconnecting: Bernstein: Burnham was really the first highway planner in Chicago #cnutrans (via @NewUrbanism)
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:44 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: IBM thinks this change could begin with university campuses reconfiguring
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:41 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Young people don't believe it's all about competition, but about the commons
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:40 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: maybe people don't want more intersections, but want more choices for services
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:39 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: more and more products packaged where there's a service that's part of it.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:38 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: better choices include ZipCar, Enterprise, U-Haul. Not more cars but better services-to get better cars into the system
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:34 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Portland was the home of open source development because of its urban plan. The early folks just wanted to live there.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:33 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: we're very focused on cities as the backbones for all these new changes.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:30 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: we're looking for the architects who can tell us how to decompile a city into the cultural components
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:29 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: city success comes from changing the DNA, reconfiguring block by block
geoffreydgraham 11/5/09 3:28 PM 10-15 miles outside every major city, housing prices drop precipitously—& trans costs rise precipitously.#CNUtrans (via @NewUrbanism)
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:27 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Which cities have the best last-mile choices? It's the one with local grocery stores, walkability.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:27 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: IBM's global innovation outlook quit looking at technology
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:25 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: when IBM built a new facility we put it in New York because it didn't need any people. It operates lights out!
NewUrbanism 11/5/09 3:23 PM Scott Bernstein: 10-15 miles outside every major city, housing prices drop precipitously—& transportation costs rise precipitously.#CNUtrans
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:23 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Half the global GDP is 500 companies - our customers. So we at IBM has a lot of influence with what happens.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:22 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: global ecosystem needs local innovation
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:22 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: We need to find those innovators who can move fast, and that's at the city level
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:20 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: So what keeps us from having better choices is the inability to trigger acceleration of innovation in political policies.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:18 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Kenya has the most solar panels per capita - drive cell phone use
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:17 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Shows chart showing that political change always lags behind technology, business, and social change.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:17 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: Smart cities is all about smart service.
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:15 PM #cnutrans -Curtis: ZipCar, for instance, is a service. There are people who don't want a car, but want the use of a car
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:15 PM #cnutrans -IBM-Stan Curtis: we're almost past products. What people want now is services. The iPhone is not expensive; the service for it is
MikeLydon 11/5/09 3:14 PM #CNUtrans - not sure what IBM guy is talking about.
Tom_Harned 11/5/09 3:09 PM RT @reconnecting Mike Krusee: The funding of freeways through the gas tax is a huge transfer of wealth from cities to suburbs. #cnutrans
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:07 PM #cnutrans -IBM-Stan Curtis: the planet is really ramping up for economic competition - China especially
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 3:03 PM #cnutrans -IBM-Stan Curtis: Talking about outcomes from IBM's Smart Cities research
CNT_tweets 11/5/09 2:36 PM Working on it! RT@MikeLydon #CNUtrans - Scott Bernstein from CNT needs to write a book about the history of functional classification.
CNT_tweets 11/5/09 2:28 PM RT @Reconnecting - CNT President Scott Bernstein: Burnham was really the first highway planner in Chicago #cnutrans
NewUrbanism 11/5/09 2:24 PM Make no small plans (the exception) RT @reconnecting: Bernstein: Burnham was really the first highway planner in Chicago #cnutrans
reconnecting 11/5/09 2:22 PM Bermstein: Around 1903 Bion Arnold had patterns 4 workforce housing near transit lines. Parsons called this 'Social Engineering' #cnutrans
reconnecting 11/5/09 2:16 PM Bernstein: Burnham was really the first highway planner in Chicago #cnutrans
StreetsblogSF 11/5/09 2:16 PM RT @HoustonTomorrow: #CNUtrans Mike Krusee:No road we built in Texas paid for itself. None.
reconnecting 11/5/09 2:15 PM Bernstein: In the 1870s the idea of transportation replaces crowdedness #cnutrans
mannytmoto 11/5/09 2:09 PM RT @reconnecting RT @HoustonTomorrow: #CNUtrans Mike Krusee:No road we built in Texas paid for itself. None.
reconnecting 11/5/09 2:02 PM Bernstien: Demonstrating the economic value of development patterns and systems (water sewer roads etc) is important #cnutrans
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 1:59 PM #CNUtrans Ellen Greenberg: We get strong transit acceptability without changing density when there is a strong job center added.
StreetsblogSF 11/5/09 1:53 PM #cnutrans Krusee - we're not in this mess because we didn't have enough transportation funding, we divorced transpo from dev't patterns.
CNT_tweets 11/5/09 1:52 PM RT @HoustonTomorrow: #CNUtrans Jacky Grimshaw: We subsidize suburbanites in many other way, including cost of electricity and so forth.
CNT_tweets 11/5/09 1:52 PM RT @reconnecting: Jackie Grimshaw: We need to have performance metrics that show where we are going #cnutrans
StreetsblogSF 11/5/09 1:50 PM #cnutrans Scott Polikov - T4 proposal is blueprint, but not tied to funding outcomes - will create expectations that are unrealistic
HoustonTomorrow 11/5/09 1:50 PM #CNUtrans Polikov: it's not about more money, it's about wiser use of the money. Just having more money to do the same thing is wrong.

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