The American Tourister site in Warren is up for sale, Sen. Jabour's study on Atwells Avenue is released, the Governor is heading south to check out the Texas Medical Center, and more in today's News & Notes.
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A Lansing, Michigan woman is documenting her walk down every street in that city, The Steel Yard is talking application for spring/summer courses, New York looks to generate energy from their sewage, sidewalk rage, and...
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A Fall River to Cape Cod regional bike route, Athens, Greece a city without suburbs, RIDOT rolls the ball on charging for highway sign ads over to the General Assembly, and more in today's News & Notes.
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The Future of the Strip: Downhill [CitiWire] From 1960 to 2000 there was an almost 10-fold increase in U.S. retail space, from four to 38 square feet per person. For many years retail space was growing five to six times...
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Should high-speed rail focus on the northeast? [2nd Ave. Sagas] During [New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s] testimony last week, the mayor criticized the government’s current investment plan. With...
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Reclaiming the center [The Boston Globe] Today, the principle behind revitalization efforts is to make downtowns not just shopping areas, but 24-hour neighborhoods with homes, offices, and entertainment venues where...
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Street Science: All Eyes on the Street [Next American City] The effort will mark BostonÂ’s entry into the National Complete Streets Coalition, a national group dedicated to making city streets more accessible across...
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I want to bike and walk but… [Coalition for Transportation Choices] For Earth Day 2010, CTC member Audubon Society of RI challenged students grades 3 – 12 to respond to the lead-in “I want to bike and...
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America’s revival begins in its cities [The Boston Globe] During economic downturns, we begin to fear that we are entering a permanent period of decline. But we can avoid that depressing prospect if we recognize...
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Actually, Highway Builders, Roads Don’t Pay For Themselves [DC.Streetsblog] You’ve heard it a thousand times from the highway lobby: Roads pay for themselves through “user fees” | a.k.a. gas...
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Transit Faces Tough Road Ahead in U.S. Congress [Reason Foundation] Incoming chair of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has released his appointments and the results probably didn’t...
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Tea Partiers See a Global Conspiracy in Local Planning Efforts [Next American City] Some might say that the Tea Party’s platform contains some contradictions. It seems that they’re|like most people...
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Ad Nauseam 2010: The Year in Car Commercials [DC.Streetsblog] Car sales are up, auto shows are packing them in, and the GM IPO was oversubscribed, but there may be no surer indicator of the auto industry’s...
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Apartments, stores planned on Loyola Avenue near Superdome [The Times-Picayune] Spurred by the future Loyola Avenue streetcar line, a local development firm plans to transform a sea of downtown [New Orleans] parking...
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Tootling [The New Yorker] “At twenty [mph], you’d actually save time,” King said. “Going forty miles per hour doesn’t change your position in the next queue, at the next traffic lights...
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Photo (cc) Metro Transportation Library and Archive GOP Wants to Bring Transpo Policy Back to the 1950s [DC.Streetsblog] Apparently, for Republicans, the big target for cuts appears to be transit spending. Tymon...
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Start-Ups Are Drawn to Pulse of Downtown [The Wall Street Journal] “We used to be located in the Redwood Shores area, but I didn’t like it because it was too remote,” says Bill Demas, chief executive...
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Next American City: Who’s Scared of a Transit Bridge? Next spring, Portland will begin building its first bridge over the Willamette River in 37 years. The Willamette River Transit Bridge – which will link a...
