Quote of the Day
USA Today
"I was a little nervous about taking the bus. Now, I wouldn't go back to driving."
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(July 27, 2010)
Blogosphere: More Space for Parking than Offices
Streetsblog NYC
Another city, another would-be transit-oriented development undermined by a glut of parking. This time it's Newton, Massachusetts, where plans are underway to build 420,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 square feet of retail, and 190 units of housing at the Riverside terminus of Boston's Green Line, the highest-ridership light rail line in the country...
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(July 27, 2010)
Pittsburgh: City Seeks BRT on Local Streets
Tribune Review
When the first of Pittsburgh's busways were built 33 years ago, they were the cutting edge of bus transit, slashing travel times to Downtown by taking buses out of regular traffic...
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(July 27, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Los Angeles Times (Commenter)
"At the end of the day, the people whining about traffic ARE the traffic, because they're whining from their cars."
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(July 26, 2010)
New Orleans: Report Discusses Freeway Teardown
Times Picayune
Hoping to give further momentum to an idea that has picked up a growing number of adherents in recent years, a group of local civic activists and planners today will release a detailed report advocating the removal of the elevated expressway over Claiborne Avenue...
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(July 23, 2010)
Blogosphere: Commute Market Share Wrong Way to Go
Urbanophile
It's common to look at transit in terms of commuting market share. It's understandable why we do this, since, among other things, it is easy to get the data. But the generally low showing of transit on this metric I think misses the bigger picture. Chicago metro has a transit market share of 11.5%, for example...
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(July 23, 2010)
Houston: Metro Cancels Contract, Rehires Firm
Houston Metro
The Metropolitan Transit Authority board canceled a contract Thursday that gave a real estate firm commissions for all of the agency's land deals - even deals the firm had no part in closing. It then rehired the firm under terms that would pay it only for deals on which it works....
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(July 23, 2010)
TOD State & Local Policy Matrix
Reconnecting America is creating a matrix of funding programs and policies at the state,regional, and local level that provide assistance to developers in building transit-oriented developments. Bill is helping to complete the matrix by early August, and then help Sasha and Alia draft a paper that includes the matrix by mid-August.
(July 23, 2010)
Quote of the Day
FTA
"For millions of Americans, having a safe and reliable transit system is the difference between seeing their children before bed or not, making it to work on time or arriving late, or getting to a doctor's appointment or forgoing it."
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(July 22, 2010)
Twin Cities: Help for Businesses on Central Corridor
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Efforts to help businesses prepare for and survive the construction of the Central Corridor light-rail line were on the agenda Tuesday for Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Metropolitan Council Chairman Peter Bell...
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(July 22, 2010)
