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June 13, 2011
Obama Administration Pushes for Transit Maintenance
In a press conference today sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association, Obama administration officials affirmed their commitment to transit, especially good maintenance of transit systems. As FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff told reporters:
June 13, 2011
Google Shows That When Transit Agencies Free Their Data, Riders Win
Earlier this week, in a forum about intelligent cities and the ways data can improve urban planning, Carolyn Young of Portland’s TriMet let it slip that Portland was one of the first cities to share its real-time transit tracking data on Google Maps. (Google announced the news two days later.)
June 10, 2011
Urban Abandonment: One Way to Cure Congestion
Jeff Wood at Reconnecting America went to the CNU Congress in Madison and all we got was this interview with John Norquist. It happens to be a pretty timely and snappy interview, though.
June 10, 2011
Can High-Speed Rail Reduce Air Travel and Highway Expansion?
Yesterday, Miller-McCune’s Michael Scott Moore accused Southwest Airlines of helping to bury a potential Texas bullet train 15 years ago.
June 9, 2011
GM CEO: “We Ought to Just Slap a Dollar Tax on a Gallon of Gas”
Well, it’s unanimous – everyone agrees the country needs a significant hike in the gas tax. Everyone outside of Congress, that is. Last week, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson told The Detroit News that a higher gas tax would help solidify the market for more fuel-efficient cars.
June 8, 2011
Labor and Environmentalists Unite to Push for Transportation Reforms
The BlueGreen Alliance, a union of labor and environmental interests, has released its own vision for a transportation reauthorization. The alliance has made the reauthorization one of its top priorities for the year.
June 8, 2011
Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Us: Public Safety Lessons From Suburbia
People choose suburban neighborhoods over urban ones for myriad reasons: because they can afford it, because the schools are good, because it’s a quiet street, or crimes rates are low, or everyone walks around with baby strollers and golden retrievers, or their family is nearby. But countless other consequences stream from their decision of where to live.
June 7, 2011
How Car Dependency Turns Suburban Dreams into Foreclosure Nightmares
According to an analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology of 2002 mortgage data, 250 people applied for mortgages every day in Chicago, and only 150 were approved. The top reason for rejecting the other 100? Applicants had too much credit tied up in car ownership.
June 7, 2011