Blogosphere: Induced Traffic Effect, SAFETEA-LU Friday, Paying For Rail, Bus Shelter Seating, Not-So-Speedy Streetcars
June 26, 2012
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| 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: Induced Traffic Effect Often Ignored Planetizen Despite many studies confirming the effect of induced traffic, the effect is often ignored in the transport models used for project appraisal, says a team of Scandanavian researchers creating an extreme bias in the assessment of new projects. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: New Bill or Extension by Friday Transportation Issues Daily SAFETEA-LU expires Friday at midnight. The replacement bill was on the brink of death, with a six-month extension of the current law in the wings. Then early in the week Congressional leaders threw a life preserver and jump-started intense, marathon negotiations... Read On |
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Commentary: Want Urban Rail, Prepare to Pay Austin American Statesman I'll never complain about Austin traffic again. OK, I will, of course. But that thought inevitably came to mind earlier this month as my friend Blake, my daughter Molly and I experienced the brutality of rush hour traffic in Paris (the one not in East Texas). .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bike Sharing Definite in Charlotte Naked City Blog I chanced to sit next to Charlotte Department of Transportation chief Danny Pleasant at this afternoon's Charlotte City Council meeting (where the council voted against building Phase II of the streetcar, but the mayor vetoed it)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Low Impact Bus Stop Seating Greater Greater Washington For weary bus riders, especially seniors and people with disabilities, comfortable seating at bus shelters is a necessity. Even while many governments expand bus service, they often regard seating as an unaffordable or unneeded luxury... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Indiana's Wasteful Highway Plans DC Streetsblog "Why is Indiana Paying $255 Million for a Tunnel Under Kentucky's Trees?" asked the Indianapolis Star in a recent headline... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is a Streetcar Speedy? Naked City Here's the thing about the proposed Charlotte streetcar expansion, the one the City Council today is probably going to pitch from the city's five-year capital improvements plan. A streetcar is not only about speedy transportation... Read On |
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Blogosphere: City of Portland's Powerplay on Tri-Met Portland Transport In a move which apparently came as a complete surprise, Portland mayor Sam Adams has proposed levying/hiking various fees on TriMet, related to things like benches and shelters... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Washington Hears About Flint, Michigan Next American City Dan Kildee, former county treasurer of auto-industry-decimated Flint, Mich., is running for Congress. Kildee, a Democrat and co-founder of the Center for Community Progress, is best known for embracing the somewhat uncomfortable idea that the old joke about the last one out of Detroit should turn out the lights is actually smart policy... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Watch Cities Segregate as they Diversify The Atlantic Cities Data from the 2010 Census have offered up another benchmark for use in tracking the feel-good demographic story of America's steady desegregation... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Collapse of Chicago Media New Geography When the satirical humor weekly The Onion announced it was moving its editorial staff from New York to Chicago it was considered quite a coup by boosters of the Windy City... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Getting TOD Right Crosscut A new report on the first Seattle community to receive new light rail suggests that a one-size-fits-all approach to transit-oriented development won't work well if we displace low-income, diverse communities... Read On |
