When DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan hinted last Tuesday that bolder ideas were on the way for bus rapid transit in New York City, she apparently meant "next week." The DOT website now displays an updated plan for the next phase of bus improvements on 34th Street, which would convert the current bus lanes into a full-fledged transitway....
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When DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan hinted last Tuesday that bolder ideas were on the way for bus rapid transit in New York City, she apparently meant "next week." The DOT website now displays an updated plan for the next phase of bus improvements on 34th Street, which would convert the current bus lanes into a full-fledged transitway....
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In recent years, urban planners have been making a big push to locate new residential buildings as close to transit as possible. It's certainly started to happen in Los Angeles County, with apartments and condos sprouting near rail lines in Hollywood, North Hollywood, Koreatown, Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles, to name a few...
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"This is not simply a transit project, or just a real estate project, but a combination of the two," Read On

A Boulder developer will ask the Planning Board this week to weigh in on the first tangible plans for the future Transit Village site -- the construction of 300 apartment units and 11,000 square feet of retail space at an estimated cost of $60 million. ...
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Plans to develop four so-called freeway cap parks have recently been announced in Los Angeles. The cap concept, which essentially covers a portion of a freeway with a planted concrete lid, has gained popularity in the last decade as an urban "greening" solution....
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"At a time when almost all states and most cities are going to Washington with one hand open, we're going with money in one hand and an open hand for a partnership in the other."
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If the county feels a tad cramped and overcrowded today, try picturing a million more people here 40 years from now, many of them living in apartments, condominiums and townhomes concentrated in urban centers near trolley stations and bus stops....
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