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Relationships Between Streetcars and the Built Environment

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM
In the past 20 years, numerous cities have planned and implemented new rail transit systems. This movement has coincided with other urban regeneration trends, bringing new life to urban centers and advancing strategies to manage growth that promote more efficient patterns of development. Various forms of heavy rail, light rail, and streetcar systems have been built, many with robust ridership and popularity, owing to a rediscovery of this form of transportation, as well as concerns about growing traffic congestion, volatile fuel prices, and climate change.

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Tags: AR, Arkansas, Astoria, CA, California, Charlotte, Dallas, FL, Florida, GA, Galveston, Georgia, Kenosha, Little Rock, Lowell, MA, Massachusetts, Memphis, NC, North Carolina, OR, Oregon, Portland, San Pedro, Savannah, Seattle, Streetcars, Tacoma, Tampa, TCRP, Tennessee, Texas, TN, Transit Cooperative Research Program, TX, WA, Washington, WI, Wisconsin
Posted in Climate Change, Competitiveness, Congestion, Environment, Local, National, Policy, Pollution, Public Transportation, Rail, Transit, Urban Planning

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Vote for America’s best transportation project of 2010

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Ten finalists, announced today by the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are competing for the 2010 America’s Transportation Awards. The National Transportation Award will be decided by a panel of judges, but the People’s Choice Award will be decided by popular vote. Online voting starts today and ends October 18th, 2010.

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Tags: AAA, AASHTO, American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials, Missouri, MO, New York, NY, NYDOT, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, WA, Washington, WSDOT
Posted in Highway, Local, National, Recovery, Roads, The Infra Blog, Urban Planning

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Reactions to Obama’s Infrastructure Announcement

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

“…I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America’s roads and rails and runways for the long term. I want America to have the best infrastructure in the world. We used to have the best infrastructure in the world. We can have it again. We are going to make it happen.”
-President Barack Obama

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Tags: AASHTO, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Barack Obama, Brookings Institution, Ed Rendell, Edward G. Rendell, Governor Rendell, Infrastructure Bank, James Corless, John Horsley, Milwaukee, Obama Administration, PA, Pennsylvania, President Obama, Ray LaHood, Robert Puentes, Secretary of Transporation, T4America, Transportation for America, WA, Wisconsin
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bipartisan, Competitiveness, Congestion, Democrat, Economic Stimulus, Employment, Equity, Funding, High Speed Rail, Infra Views, Jobs, National, Policy, Private Investment, Public Transportation, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Roads, Tax, Transit

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Evaluation of Lane Reduction “Road Diet” Measures on Crashes

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

HIGHWAY SAFETY INFORMATION SYSTEM
A road diet involves narrowing or eliminating travel lanes on a roadway to make more room for pedestrians and bicyclists…road diets may reduce vehicle speeds and vehicle interactions, which could potentially reduce the number and severity of vehicle-to-vehicle crashes. Road diets can also help pedestrians by creating fewer lanes of traffic to cross and by reducing vehicle speeds.

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Tags: Accountability, CA, California, Highway Safety Information System, HSIS, Pedestrian, Road Diet, Sidewalk, WA, Washington
Posted in Congestion, Highway, Infra Views, National, Roads, Transit, Urban Planning

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Traffic Jams from Sea to Shining Sea

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

How can we put an end to this?

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Tags: Baltimore, CA, California, cars, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, driving, IL, Illinois, Los Angeles, Maryland, MD, MI, Michigan, New York, NY, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Traffic, TX, WA, Washington
Posted in Highway, Local, National, Roads, Show Us Your Infra, Urban Planning

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Too Much Debt: Washington State Can’t Finance Major Highway Projects It Has Planned

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

COALITION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SR 520
SR 520 is one of two east-west roadways across Lake Washington. Approximately 115,000 vehicles carrying 190,000 people travel the SR 520 Evergreen Point Bridge every day.

Washington is dangerously close to its constitutional debt limit. SR 520 is dangerously close to the end of its useful life. The state is advocating a construction plan that can’t legally be paid for.

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Tags: Coalition for a Sustainable SR 520, debt, Highway, Montlake, SR 520, Sustainable520, WA, Washington
Posted in Accountability, Funding, Highway, Infra Views, Land Use, Local, Policy, Roads, Smart Growth, Urban Planning

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Recovery In Progress

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Photos of recovery projects that are now underway
More on the Recovery.gov Flickr Page

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Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, Connecticut, CT, ID, Idaho, MA, Massachusetts, OR, Oregon, Recovery.gov, WA, Washington, WSDOT
Posted in Bridges, Funding, Highway, Local, Recovery, Roads, Show Us Your Infra, Transit, Wastewater

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Hwy 14 Dog Mountain Rockfall Mitigation

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Road work @ Dog Mountain on Highway 14 in Washington. Expect Delays, Partial closures throughout the day.

-smokum0 on YouTube

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Tags: Construction, Highway 14, landslide, smokumo, Video, WA, Washington, YouTube
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Highway, Local, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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Walk. Bike. Ride.

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

CITY OF SEATTLE
We are at a turning point in transportation. We cannot sustain the financial, environmental and health costs of a transportation system that is overly reliant on automobiles. We need a new balanced approach that creates a transition. We are prepared to commit to that path by prioritizing walking, biking and transit in how we use our streets, how we spend our dollars, and how we collaborate with county, state and federal governments.

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Tags: Mayor of Seattle, Pedestrian, Seattle, WA, Walk. Bike. Ride.
Posted in Biking, Equity, Infra Views, Local, Public Transportation, Smart Growth, Transit, Urban Planning

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