The Other Side Of The Tracks
May 27, 2009
By Jeff Wood
All the Transit and TOD News That's Fit to Print or Blog
These links to news stories and blog posts about transit and TOD are collected daily by Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's GIS specialist and a passionate transit advocate. Jeff's entire post plus commentary is sent by email to members of Reconnecting America (to join visit our Get Connected page); the first five articles of his daily post (which sometimes contains as many as two dozen links) are available here to nonmembers without his commentary.
National: Airport Rail Connections
USA Today
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Fort Worth: Airport Rail Controversy
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Irving officials are livid that a proposed transfer center for
passenger trains from Tarrant and Dallas counties may be moved away
from the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport terminal area and onto undeveloped
land east of downtown Grapevine....
San Francisco: Fiscal Mess Blamed on Contracts
Examiner
Inefficient, old-fashioned work rules buried within union contracts are
one of the reasons public transportation is becoming more expensive and
less reliable, according to transit executives.....
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New York: Vehicles Gone from Broadway
New York Times
Paul Ziemer and Pikkam So traveled to Times Square on Sunday from their
home in Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, and allowed their
14-month-old son, Benjamin, to do what few New Yorkers have ever done:..
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National: Demographic Changes Mean Other Changes?
National Journal Series
The American population will undergo dramatic demographic changes in
the next few decades. The number of senior citizens is projected to
swell by 36 percent from 2010 to 2020 as Baby Boomers hit age 65, and
minorities are projected to constitute the majority of the total
population by 2042, according to a recent report
by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. What do we
need to do differently to meet the changing needs of the traveling
public as the U.S. population becomes older and more ethnically and
racially diverse? What can we do in the next surface transportation
bill to begin that process?...
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Posted May 27, 2009
