Blogosphere: Attack On Transit Funds, Fuel Economy Undermines Highways, Urban County, Promoting TOD, World's Smartest City
| Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. |
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Blogosphere: Ways & Means Would Shift Transit Monies T4 America Reversing policy begun under President Ronald Reagan, House Ways and Means Committee - at the direction of House leadership - could move Friday to end guaranteed funding for public transportation, and leave even today's inadequate funding levels in doubt... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Senate Transport Bill Clears Committee DC Streetsblog While their colleagues in the House were debating more than 80 amendments to a transportation bill, members of the Senate Banking Committee were quietly passing their two-year transit bill with - get this - unanimous bipartisan support. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: House Moves to Decimate Transit Funds DC Streetsblog In a move that should dispel any remaining thoughts that the House transportation bill [PDF] will ever be signed into law, the Ways and Means Committee announced today that they will try to forbid gas tax revenue from funding transit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Your Prius Will Bankrupt Our Highways The Atlantic Cities On Tuesday, House Republicans unveiled a highway spending bill stuffed full of red meat for their conservative base -- a Chipotle steak burrito wrapped in legislative language. It would bring the Keystone XL Pipeline back from the grave... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lukewarm Reception to HOT Lanes The Atlantic Cities American cities are years away, at best, from adopting congestion pricing programs on downtown streets, like those used in Stockholm and London. But road pricing has been in effect on various metropolitan area highways since the mid-1990s. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Retire With Your Own Little Toll Bridge Getting From Here to There The BBC reported on a toll bridge in Herefordshire that was recently purchased. That's not so unusual, but it was bought by a fellow who will retire on the property and hang around to collect the tolls motorists pay... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Oregon Reps Make Displeasure Known Bike Portland Oregon Congressmen Earl Blumenauer and Peter DeFazio are pulling no punches when it comes to leveling criticism at the House transportation bill that was released yesterday... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Planning Democracy Depends on Civility Huffington Post SF Since the beginning days of our democracy, the traditional town hall meeting has been the place where people sat in uncomfortable chairs raising hands, waiting their turn to speak their mind. It's crowdsourcing face to face, problem-solving together... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lexington Becoming an "Urban County" The Lexington Streetsweeper I heard a conversation today where the participants, clearly very pro PDR (that is Lexington's Purchase of Development Rights program) spoke of the council representation for the 12th district... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A New Way to Promote TOD Regional Plan Association Connecticut's transit system, already one of the busiest in the country, is about to expand with the addition of the New Britain-Hartford Busway and New Haven-Springfield Commuter Rail... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Vienna Ranked Worlds Smartest City The City Fix We previously wrote about the most livable cities in the world and the most innovative solutions to make cities more livable. Now we bring you the smartest cities in the world, courtesy of Boyd Cohen of Co.EXIST... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Obama's Housing Plan, Piece by Piece NHC Open House President Obama's announcement of his housing plan was welcome, but it includes more pieces than brief news coverage necessarily notices. Secretary Donovan provided much helpful detail in his remarks, and the fact sheet is a good reference... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Indianapolis Became "Sports City" The Urbanophile I have long touted the sports strategy that Indianapolis used to revitalize its downtown as a model for cities to follow in terms of strategy led economic and community development... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Two Cities Can Be Better Than One Per Square Mile Cities were, for thousands of years, distinct and easily identifiable entities. You were either in the city or in the country. Medieval cities took this to the extreme, building walls to make explicit the distinction... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Enviro Building Blocks of Happiness NRDC Switchboard As regular readers may remember, I am fascinated by the relationship of our cities, and the way they are configured, to our mental and emotional well-being. The relationship of urban form to physical health is finally getting some of the attention it deserves.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: City County/County City Urban Places and Spaces The work of Myron Orfield, author of Metropolitics, has shaped some of my thinking about metropolitan government. Orfield focuses in part on tax harmonization... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Power of the Pop Up Storefront Fast Company Amid the prolonged economic downturn, Main Streets the world over are dealing with empty-shop syndrome. This is a struggle--but also an opportunity for reinvention. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rescuing Slums in Latin America Brookings The Christmas inauguration of a giant outdoor escalator to Medellín's notorious slum Comuna Treze is an admirable continuation of recent efforts across Latin America to reduce the immense divide between the prosperous parts of its cities and the vast dire slums... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Austin Gets Zero Energy Suburb Grist How do you build a (nearly) net-zero-energy suburb in 2008, at the nadir of the economic crash, when no bank in the country is convinced you'll be able to sell your more energy-efficient but pricier homes?.. Read On |
