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RECONNECTING AMERICA CEO CALLS FOR BOLD NEW AGENDA FOR SMALL-TOWN AMERICA
John Robert Smith tells Senate panel safe, strong and efficient transportation systems in small towns and rural areas are needed to grow economy and pursue the American Dream

LIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – TAKING ACTION FOR A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
Reconnecting America Participates in White House briefing

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A Tale of Two Eco-Suburbs in Freiburg, Germany: Parking Provision and Car Use
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Designing Roads That Guide Drivers To Choose Safer Speeds
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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

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Reconnecting America CEO Calls For Bold New Agenda For Small-Town America

Reconnecting America CEO Calls For Bold New Agenda For Small-Town America

John Robert Smith tells Senate panel safe, strong and efficient transportation systems in small towns and rural areas are needed to grow economy and pursue the American Dream

As the Senate continues to develop a revitalized, long-term federal transportation program, Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith called on senators to support a bold new agenda for rural transportation that would spur economic development in small towns and cities across the United States.

(March 18, 2010)

Chicago: Build New HSR Hub Near Post Office

Chicago Journal

In the future envisioned for high-speed rail transportation, Chicago is seen as the hub of a Midwest network, the place through which all other trains must pass on their way to and from a cluster of satellite cities....
 
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(March 18, 2010)

Toronto: Mayoral Candidate Wants Tolls for Transit

Globe and Mail


Mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson waded into the politically treacherous waters of toll roads in unveiling her transit platform on Wednesday.
Most other candidates were quick to dismiss her proposal, which would place a $5 toll on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway to pay for an expanded subway system....
 
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(March 18, 2010)

Pittsburgh: Cities Embracing Sustainability

Pittsburgh Post Gazette


With its abundant LEED-certified buildings, its superlative green wall, its fledgling biofuel companies, its transmogrified riverfronts and reclaimed brownfields, Pittsburgh wants to be known as a city where sustainability is taken seriously....
 
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(March 17, 2010)

Blogosphere: Strategic Mobility Plan a Way Forward

Austin Chronicle


The city is poised to plunge into the rail-transit business - with its central-city circulator Austin Urban Rail project - yet has barely dipped a toe into the transit-oriented development business. Transit-successful cities (e.g., Portland, Ore.) fund streetcars with tax-increment financing - bonds gradually paid off from the stream of increased property taxes that streetcar lines help create...
 
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(March 11, 2010)

Utah: We Need Transit Oriented Communities

Standard Examiner


The Wasatch Front Regional Council estimates that the Top of Utah will see a 60 percent population increase over the next 30 years. Unfortunately, we're not a public transportation-oriented community in Utah. It's clear that we have to make some strides toward using public transit. If we don't, our freeways won't be able to handle the traffic flow. Add the resulting increase in pollution and we've got a big problem....
 
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(March 11, 2010)

San Jose: Milpitas Votes Stop Location, Development

San Jose Mercury News

City officials last week supported Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's vision of greater development at Milpitas' future Bay Area Rapid Transit station site at the southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Montague Expressway...
 
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(March 11, 2010)

Quote of the Day

Oregonian

"Of course, if I pull in and see a TriMet shuttle bus waiting for me, I just drive to work."

 
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(March 9, 2010)

Blogosphere: Local Lesson in Transit Orientation

NRDC Switchboard

Several weeks ago, I ran a post making the case that transit-oriented development requires more than just transit and development.  As the phrase implies, it also requires orientation: the development must relate to and be convenient to the transit....
 
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(March 9, 2010)

Dallas: Grapevine Officials Focus on TOD

Fort Worth Star Telegram

How do you plan for $50 million in development around a facility that is yet to be designed?  And, how do you make a building in a modern, regional transit system mesh with existing structures in a carefully preserved historic district?...
 

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(March 4, 2010)

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