Celebrate Earth Day the FTA Way, With a Map of Sustainable Transpo Projects
The Federal Transit Administration has launched a new website for Earth Day (this Sunday), showcasing the agency's efforts for livability and clean energy. It's all good Earth Day reading, but what stands out is this useful map of sustainable transportation projects.
April 20, 2012
Today’s Headlines
Bike/Ped Survives House’s “Dirty” Extension (Bike League) Who Will Blink on the Keystone Amendment? (Transpo Issues Daily) HSR Not an Effective Use of California’s Climate Change Mitigation Dollars (WaPo) Emanuel: No More Dickering on Infrastructure Trust (Chicago Sun-Times, HuffPo) Outrageously Wrong: County Supe Calls Transit Sales Tax “Gang Rape” (LAT) Combustion Emissions Kill 19,000 Prematurely … Continued
April 20, 2012
Lautenberg Brawls With Port Authority Exec Over Tolling
New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg has been spoiling for a fight ever since the Port Authority raised tolls to cross into New York. And yesterday, he got it.
April 19, 2012
Calculate the Precise Amount of Your Support For Streetsblog
Public radio interrupts programming with its pledge drives. The Girl Scouts' fundraising cookie sales clog your arteries and make you fat. Here at Streetsblog, we don't do either. We just put up a post once in a while to remind you that we need your support. (This is that post.)
April 18, 2012
Patent Troll Sues Transit Agencies For Releasing Real-Time Transit Info
Lloyd Dobbler, John Cusack’s generation-defining character in Say Anything, notably said, “I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.”
April 16, 2012
Today’s Headlines
WSJ: Americans Don’t Want LaHood’s Strange “Livability,” They Want Endless Highways GOP: Maybe If We Keep Talking About High Gas Prices No One Will Notice We Have No Plan (WaPo) The Oil and Gas Industry Tax Breaks That Congress Just Voted to Keep, Explained (Strib) Will a Weakened Tea Party Be Less Able to Obstruct Progress … Continued
April 16, 2012
House GOP Tries to Horse-Trade Senate Bill For Keystone Pipeline
In another desperate attempt to push forward their fossil fuel agenda, House Republicans have indicated that even though they've been incapable of passing a transportation bill, they're willing to go to conference committee and pass the Senate bill. All the Senate Democrats have to do in return is approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
April 13, 2012
Today’s Headlines
Hybrids Are a Gateway Car (Treehugger) “This Ain’t Amsterdam”: Mexico City Embraces the Bicycle (WaPo) Gas Prices Could Be Going Down (Hill) Was the Gated Community a Factor in Trayvon Martin’s Murder? (Atlantic Cities) Right and Left Use the Same Empty Soundbite on Energy Policy (Grist) 730,000 Americans Bike to Work, A 50 Percent Increase … Continued
April 12, 2012
Census Breaks the News We Already Knew: The Exurbs Are History
Last week, the New York Times and USA Today reported that Census numbers had confirmed the death of the outer ring suburbs, or exurbs. The latest numbers, capturing the year (actually 15 months, April 2010 to July 2011) since the last Census, showed a major shift away from the settlement patterns from 2000 to 2010.
April 9, 2012
Today’s Headlines
It’s Not Just Transportation — Lots of Bipartisan Bills Are Hitting Gridlock in Congress (Hill) Light Rail Is Good For Business — If Businesses Can Survive Its Construction (Strib) Massachusetts Is Still Struggling Under Burden of Big Dig Debt, Transit Fares Increase (Globe) Florida Gov. Reduces State-Level Planning Capacity, Leaves Decisions in Local Hands (Sentinel) Will … Continued
April 9, 2012