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Safe Highways – A 1925 Traffic Safety Film
Friday, January 20th, 2012Chicago, IL: The Grant Park Bike Tunnel
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012Bike Tunnel under xxx Drive in Grant Park Chicago – MchaelStavy on YouTube.
View this complete post...Chicago, IL: Michigan Avenue Paving Project
Thursday, December 15th, 20112011 Michigan Avenue Paving Project in front of Water Tower Place, Chicago, IL – JanisseMerelos on YouTube
View this complete post...Chicago, IL: 18th Street – Before & After the Bike Lane
Friday, December 9th, 2011Check out the new cycle track on 18th Street in Chicago, starting in Pilsen on the west and leading to Chinatown/South Loop on the east. Get a view of the situation before the new bike lanes were installed. Uploaded by jamesbondsv on Youtube.
View this complete post...Chicago, IL: New Bike Lane
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011Housing + Transportation Affordability in Washington, DC
Friday, August 5th, 2011THE CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
Today, the real estate market knows how to incorporate the value of land into the price of the home—based on its location and proximity to jobs and amenities—but there is less clarity about how the accompanying transportation costs also contribute to the desirability of a location. In most cases, the very same features that make the land and home more attractive, and likely more expensive per square foot, also make the transportation costs lower.
View this complete post...Walk Score: The 10 Most Walkable Cities
Monday, July 25th, 2011Walk Score has released its 2011 list of the 10 Most Walkable Cities. Walk Score ranks the walkability of the 50 largest states in the United States. The Walk Score Algorithm Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle—not how pretty the area is for walking. Walk Score uses a patent-pending [...]
View this complete post...Reducing Foreclosures and Environmental Impacts through Location-Efficient Neighborhood Design
Friday, June 10th, 2011NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
While the nation continues to grapple with a troubling housing market and a rash of mortgage defaults, new research has emerged drawing a direct link between “location efficiency”—a measure of the transportation costs in a given area—and mortgage foreclosure rates. The study shows that factors such as neighborhood compactness, access to public transit, and rates of vehicle ownership are key to predicting mortgage performance and should be taken more seriously by mortgage underwriters, policymakers, and real estate developers.
$2 Billion High-Speed Rail Investment
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011The Department’s Federal Railroad Administration selected 15 states and Amtrak to receive $2.02 billion for 22 high-speed intercity passenger rail projects as part of a nationwide network that will connect 80 percent of Americans to high-speed rail in 25 years.
View this complete post...The Economic Impacts of High Speed Rail: Transforming the Midwest
Monday, May 2nd, 2011MIDWEST HIGH SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION
The goal of the study is to provide a candid and impartial assessment of a wide range of investments that will need to be made in railroads, commuter rail and transit to support a HSR hub in downtown Chicago and to help envision the types of land use and development potential that a well-designed, integrated high-speed system could produce for Chicago and its surrounding communities.
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