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Hey
All - Looks like the high speed rail funds from Ohio and
Wisconsin are getting redistributed. - JW
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Quote
of the Day
San
Francisco Chronicle
"The public opinion used to be that San Francisco
never could be a bicycle city because of the
topography,"
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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. The
Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards
the bottom.
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San
Francisco: Support for Protected Fell Bike Lanes
Streetsblog SF
During routine
business at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board
meeting Tuesday, Director Cheryl Brinkman recounted how enjoyable
it was to ride her bicycle on the new physically separated bike
lane on Division Street between 9th and 11th Streets....
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Blogosphere:
House Passes Extension of Transpo Bill
Streetsblog DC
Remember those
heady days in mid-2009, when Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) introduced an
ambitious, half-trillion dollar reauthorization that would
transform the country's infrastructure?..
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International:
Cape Town Rail Line Will Raise Values
News Time +
Cape Town's
multibillion-rand West Coast Integrated Rapid Transit route is
expected create many opportunities in the area including rising
property prices and mushrooming businesses...
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National:
Rejected HSR Funds Redistributed
New York Times +
Ohio and
Wisconsin's loss of $1.2 billion in federal stimulus money for rail
projects will be California, Florida and 11 other states' gain.
Ohio and Wisconsin sought and won the stimulus money this year to
build new rail lines to create jobs, ease traffic and help the
environment....
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Cincinnati:
Streetcars to Get More Funding
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati will get $35 million in state money for
the first phases of its streetcar project, the Ohio Department of
Transportation said Thursday....
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Tampa:
Mica Will Support Florida HSR
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Thursday's unexpected infusion of an extra $342
million for Florida's high-speed rail project appears to have
warmed U.S. Rep John Mica to extending the project to
Tampa...
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Dallas:
$11M for Dallas Streetcars
Dallas Business Journals
The McKinney Avenue Trolley expansion, and the Dallas
streetcar expansion from downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff, will receive
nearly $11 million in funding from the Regional Transportation
Council...
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Los
Angeles: Board Removes Dense Area from BRT
Streetsblog LA
Following nearly an hour and fifteen minutes of
public testimony, most of which overwhelmingly favored passage of
the staff recommendation to complete the Wilshire Bus Only Lanes on
all parts of Wilshire Boulevad controlled by the City of Los
Angeles, the Metro Board of Directors unanimously backed transit
expert Zev Yaroslavsky over their staff and LADOT staff and decided
to remove the Comstock/Selby area of Wilshire in Westwood from the
project....
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Portland:
Sellwood Bridge, Now with Streetcar Onramp
Oregonian
With Sellwood Bridge funding on solid ground today,
we checked in to see what's going on with the design and a related
streetcar line....
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New
Jersey: Support for Christie's Decision Grows
Bloomberg
More New Jersey residents support Gov. Chris
Christie's cancellation of a proposed $8.7 billion Hudson River
commuter-rail tunnel than immediately following his October
decision, a Rutgers-Eagleton poll shows...
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Cincinnati:
Streetcar Foes Target Councilman Berding
Cincinnati Enquirer
In a new effort to block the Cincinnati streetcar,
the Fraternal Order of Police, the local firefighters union, the
NAACP and other groups are pressuring Councilman Jeff Berding over
what they describe as his flip-flop support for the streetcar
issue....
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Virginia:
Governor Proposes $4B Transport Bond
Roanoke Times
Gov. Bob McDonnell today proposed a $4 billion
increase in transportation spending during the next three years,
outlining a series of borrowing, lending and rebudgeting moves
though no tax increase....
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Virginia:
Governor Proposes $4B Transport Bond
Roanoke Times
Gov. Bob McDonnell today proposed a $4 billion
increase in transportation spending during the next three years,
outlining a series of borrowing, lending and rebudgeting moves
though no tax increase....
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Madison:
Rail Line Will be Big Issue in 2011
Isthmus
Anyone tired of talking about trains yet? I hope not
because, to quote Karen Carpenter, we've only just begun...to
discuss this issue in Dane County. In fact, the passenger train
issue will likely be more important in the next election, for Dane
County executive, than it was in the race for governor....
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Charlotte:
Hybrid LRT Vehicle Arrives in Charlotte
PRNewswire
KINKISHARYO International, L.L.C. announced the
prototype of its LFX-300, a 100 percent low-floor, electro-hybrid
streetcar specifically designed for North
America, has arrived at the Charlotte Area Transit System
(CATS) in Charlotte, N.C.
today...
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San
Francisco: Greentrip Projects
San Francisco +
When developer City Centric went before the Berkeley
City Council for approval of its new apartment project, principals
Ali Kashani and Mark Rhoades were pleasantly surprised to win
unanimous approval...
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Providence:
MBTA to Serve to Providence Airport
Boston Globe
T.F. Green Airport and the
airlines that serve it have signed new agreements that will lower
the airlines' per-passenger cost of using the airport if they
increase the number of passengers who use the
terminal....
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International:
Urban Rail Planned for Qatar World Cup
Railway Gazette
The successful bid to host the football World Cup in
2022 includes plans to invest US$24bn in transport infrastructure,
including high speed rail lines to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and
construction of a 340 km public transport network serving Doha and
its environs. ...
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The
Chatter - This is where you can find all the opinion and
chatter going on around the blogosphere and in the back pages of
newspapers. Sometimes you might find some opposition as
well.
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Blogosphere:
Environmentalism vs Density
Market Urbanism
I know I've kind of beaten this horse dead, but this
environmentalism vs. density stuff just enrages me too much to
relegate it to a link list. Here are some excerpts from an article
about how the EPA's proposed new rules for cleaning up the
Chesapeake Bay could impede dense, environmentally-friendly
development:..
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Blogosphere:
Ohio and Wisconsin Funds Distributed
Transport Politic
Florida's high-speed project is now fully funded from
the federal government; California is closer to connecting Fresno
with Bakersfield. Other states, including Washington and Illinois,
also receive major allocations...
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Blogosphere:
Gold Line TOD Project Awarded Grant
LAist +
The mixed-use transit village planned for the Gold
Line station in Monrovia received some green to help with their
green, thanks to a "a $995,000 Urban Greening Grant from the the
state's California's Strategic Growth Council," reports the
Pasadena Star-News...
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Blogosphere:
Lind - High Speed Rail is Killing Upgrades
The American Conservative
Ever since the Obama Administration took office,
public transit enthusiasts have been gushing over its support for
high speed rail. "Isn't it wonderful?" they ask. "Soon we'll have
TGVs and Skinkansens and ICEs just like first world countries
do."..
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Blogosphere:
Fulton - Cities that Prosper, Cool or Not
New Geography
Over the past few years, the raging debate in
economic development has been over whether cities should be cool or
uncool. Should cities pursue "the creative economy" by going after
arts, culture, creative research & development, and
innovation?...
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Research:
Re-Reading Practices of Urban Cycling
Environment & Planning
Over the past few years, the raging debate in
economic development has been over whether cities should be cool or
uncool. Should cities pursue "the creative economy" by going after
arts, culture, creative research & development, and
innovation?...
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Research:
Re-Reading Practices of Urban Cycling
Environment & Planning
Over the past few years, the raging debate in
economic development has been over whether cities should be cool or
uncool. Should cities pursue "the creative economy" by going after
arts, culture, creative research & development, and
innovation?...
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Research:
Re-Examining Contemporary Urbanism
Environment & Planning
This paper introduces a unique approach for
characterizing contemporary urban dynamics in US cities and
metropolitan areas. The proposed approach utilizes a socially and
spatially integrated framework, and combines the traditional
factorial ecology analysis with a novel spatial interpolation
technique....
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Blogosphere:
State GDP Performance
The Urbanophile
Gross Domestic Product is the basic measure of
economic output. The government released 2009 GDP data for US
states recently, so it's worth taking a look. Here's a map of
percent change in total real GDP from 2000 to 2009, with increases
in blue, decreases in red:...
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