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ANDRIANA ABARIOTES JOINS RECONNECTING AMERICA BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith cites her outstanding skill set in the arena of community development and affordable housing

LEVERAGING FEDERAL TRANSIT FUNDS TO PROMOTE JOB CONNECTIVITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Reconnecting America offers ideas on how to improve federal New Starts and Small Starts project justification criteria

RECONNECTING AMERICA ENDORSES LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT AMENDMENT
Letter from RA, Transportation for America and LOCUS backs creation of funding tools for TOD infrastructure

Best Practices 
Case Studies on Transit and Livable Communities in Rural and Small Town America
Offers a dozen examples of small towns and rural regions working to make their communities more livable · PDF

Bus Rapid Transit and Transit Oriented Development: Case Studies on Transit Oriented Development Around Bus Rapid Transit Systems in North America and Australia
Provides examples of BRT-based TOD along corridors Brisbane, Australia; Cleveland, Ohio; Boston, Mass.; and Ottawa, Ontario · PDF

Bus and Rail Transit Preferential Treatments in Mixed Traffic
This synthesis series reports on current knowledge and practice, in a compact format, · PDF

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MAKING THE TWIN CITIES MORE WALKABLE
New CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of a place

CAPTURING THE VALUE OF TRANSIT
New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released

FINANCING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Policy Options and Strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area

Items tagged with Somerville:

Implementing Transit-Oriented Development: Strategies And Tools

City of Somerville Citywide Planning Steering Committee, Feb. 16, 2010

Sam Zimbabwe addressed a Steering Committee working on citywide planning issues in the City of Somerville, MA. Building on previous work on equitable TOD in the city and other experiences nationally, Sam's presentation focused on what local jurisdictions can do to support transit-oriented development.

(February 23, 2010)

New Jersey: Somerville Transit Village Designation

Central Jersey

The borough is waiting to find out whether it will earn a special designation from the state Department of Transportation that local officials say will help the municipality as it seeks grants...
 

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(February 18, 2010)

Boston: Somerville & Medford Divided on Extension

Wicked Local


There seems to be a consensus that Somerville and Medford should present a unified front when petitioning the state to end the Green Line extension at Route 16 in Medford. But whether there is actually consensus between the two cities on the end point is debatable....
 
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(January 29, 2010)

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Transit-Friendly Streets: Design and Traffic Management Strategies to Support Livable Communities, TCRP Report 33

Reviews ten strategies for transit-friendly streets and reviews case studies of five communities working towards more transit-friendly streets

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