News: Fed Transpo Bill Field Goal, Cincinnati Streetcar Funding, Portland Southwest Corridor Plans, Upstate NY Back In Business, Large Cities Growth
June 29, 2012
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| Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. |
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National: Full Bill Linked At Bottom The Hill The bicameral agreement on a new surface transportation bill was released early Thursday morning by the House Rules Committee... Read On |
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National: Bill More Like a Field Goal Than Touchdown Transportation Nation Now that the Transportation Bill conference committee has finally released a report (ongress has all of two days to pass it before the June 30th deadline on the current (ninth) extension... Read On |
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National: Conservative Pundits Don't Like It Either The Hill The conservative website RedState.com said Thursday that the agreement reached by lawmakers on a $120-billion surface transportation bill was "a massive increase in federal gluttony." .. Read On |
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Cincinnati: Ohio Rep - No Fed Money Spent on Streetcar Cincinnati Enquirer U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot's trying to keep future federal transportation funding away from being spent on Cincinnati's streetcar... Read On |
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National: Heritage Foundation Response to Bill Heritage Foundation Senate and House conferees have reached an agreement to fund surface transportation programs through 2014. The bill, MAP-21 (H.R. 4348) should be measured against how it steers the country away from its current path of reckless spending and whether it improves congestion, mobility, and safety... Read On |
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Portland: Southwest Corridor Plan gets Fresh Spin Daily Journal of Commerce Metro, the governing body controlling regional land use and development, is trying something new. "Generally, they make some kind of a transportation decision and then they do the planning around that,".. Read On |
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New York: Upstate New York Cities Back in Business The Economist THERE is an eerie beauty to Buffalo's waterfront. Long-abandoned buildings and unused grain elevators stand along Lake Erie's shore. General Mills is one of the few companies that still use it-the smell of Cheerios, a breakfast cereal, permeates the air... Read On |
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International: The Great Myth of Urban Britain BBC What proportion of Britain do you reckon is built on? By that I mean covered by buildings, roads, car parks, railways, paths and so on - what people might call "concreted over". Go on - have a guess... Read On |
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National: Large Cities Got Larger, Despite Downturn USA Today The urban renaissance that blossomed in boom years during the past two decades is flourishing even more despite the economic downturn and housing slump, which kept more Americans away from suburbs and closer to major job centers... Read On |
