Today’s Headlines
Active Transportation Advocate Gabrielle Giffords to Resign from Congress (Star Tribune) Where GOP Candidates Fall on Urban Issues (Grist) Urban Planners: Government Is Stifling Cities, But Mayors’ Message Off the Mark (Forbes) LaHood Still Fighting for the Transportation Bill, Says a Grateful National League of Cities Oberstar: US Should Not Give Up on HSR (WaPo) … Continued
January 23, 2012
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House Reconvenes Today, and Transportation Bills Abound (Politico) Rep. Aaron Schock Says House Vote on 5-Year Highway Bill Could Come Next Month (JournalStar) Bike Companies Expect Boost From Obama’s “Insourcing” Initiative (BikePortland) Iowa Gas Tax Increase Has Bipartisan Support (Muscatine Journal) Pro-Transit Trend in Bipartisanship May Be Spreading to Indiana, Too (IndyStar) LaHood Defends Tax … Continued
January 17, 2012
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Report: FL Gov. Rick Scott Refused HSR Money After Failed White House Shakedown (Hill) SC Conservationists Urge DOT to Fix Roads Before Building More Freeways (TheState) MassDOT Challenges Bostonian App-Developers to Show Power of Mode-Share (TranspoNation) Georgia, Alabama Governors Announce New Transportation Priorities (Landline) Report: Arizona Has Second Worst Traffic Safety Laws in the Nation … Continued
January 13, 2012
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House to Vote on Bill that Expands Drilling to Pay for Infrastructure (Hill) Highway Removals Are Hipper Than Ever (Atlantic Cities) Last Year’s Storms Continue to Cost USDOT (TransNat) Rails-to-Trails or Bikes-to-Rails? A New Concept Bike From Italy Rides Old Tracks (TreeHugger) New Study Seeks to Quantify Health Benefits of Transportation (National Journal) How Seattle … Continued
January 10, 2012
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CA Governor Still Budgeting for HSR, Proposes New Agency (SacBee) Carnegie Endowment: Time to Reassess Our National Transportation Program (Hill) What Happened to the Rick Santorum Who Supported Amtrak as a Senator? (Politico) Houston Making Baby Steps Toward Bike-share (TransNat) Private Group, USDOT May Fund Scaled-Back Light Rail in Detroit (TransportPolitic) Georgia State Representative Urges … Continued
January 9, 2012
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Iowa-Centric Candidates Ignoring Urban Issues (Salon) and Transportation (Politico) Are More Temporary Extensions of Transportation Bills Inevitable? (National Journal) Romney’s Last Words Before Caucus Were Railing Against Amtrak (TranspoNation) Republican Presidential Candidates Weren’t Always Anti-HSR (NYTimes) Missouri’s Refusal to Adopt New Safety Standards Could Cut Them Off From Highway Fund (KCStar) Sprawl Is Costing Florida … Continued
January 4, 2012
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Transit Ridership on the Rise as Transit Funding Declines (NYT) New Year Brings New Wave of Texting While Driving Bans (LATimes) Reabsorbing the Exurbs, the Real Estate Equivalent of Composting (Grist) The Transport Politic Highlights New Transit Projects Opening in 2012 Six Urbanist Trends for 2012 (MyUrbanist) Harvard’s Ed Glaeser: Living in Cities Is Simply Better … Continued
January 3, 2012
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Newt Gingrich, Rail Visionary? (Transportation Nation) Barbara Boxer’s TIFIA Would Drop Environmental Criteria (HuffPo) Study: Health Benefits Outweigh Costs of Ciclovia, Open Streets Events (BikePortland) Neighboring Cities Press U.S. DOT to Keep Rejected Transit Funds in Greater Detroit (Patch, DFP) GPS Tools Illustrate “Unhealthy Reliance on Cars” Among Canadian Youth (SunTimes) Why Not Fix Suburbia … Continued
December 21, 2011
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Congress Fails to Save the Transit Benefit (T4A) Brookings: “Happy Anniversary, ISTEA. Or Something.” US Transpo Safety Chair Defends Cellphone Bans: ‘We Don’t Worry About Popular’ (Hill) MD Governor (Finally) Launches PlanMaryland to Curb Sprawl (WaPo) Nation’s Largest Commuter Rail System to Post In Real-Time (Transpo Nation) VA Governor Proposes Funding Transportation Over Schools, Health … Continued
December 20, 2011
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Romney: As President, I’d Borrow to Pay for Transportation Infrastructure (Transpo Nation) Senator Brown’s Transit Flexibility Bill Is Badly Needed in Many Cities (T4A) Mexico City’s Sleek New Buses Cut Pollution, Generate Carbon Credit Sales (Reuters) Strong Support for Texting Ban Runs Deeper in Missouri Town (HuffPo) BRT Is Great But Is It to Blame … Continued
December 19, 2011