The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, representing the nation’s capital and 22 counties in Maryland and Virginia has voted to approve a complete streets policy. Though it does not contain the force of law, the vote pushes local governments to: “create or adapt transportation facilities that safely and appropriately accommodate motorized and non-motorized users,…
(New York, NY — Denise Blostein, WNYC) The Bloomberg administration is on board with proposed legislation that may eliminate the “Wild West” atmosphere of intercity buses that many officials say is wreaking havoc on city streets, especially in Chinatown. State Senator Daniel Squadron and Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn said new permitting will require…
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is the first likely 2013 New York mayoral candidate out of the box with a detailed plan for financing the city’s transit system. It’s a a mix of solutions — but the gist is this, there should be more financing for transit, and not just from transit riders. Instead, Stringer…
(New York, NY – WNYC) It’s been a long wait for a South Bronx neighborhood that heard promise after promise about how parkland that became parking garages would one day be replaced. That day is now here. Five years after the city of New York allowed a heavily used set of baseball diamonds to be…
After being closed for the winter, Boston’s “New Balance Hubway” officially relaunches today. This in this morning from the Hubway folks: “Boston Mayor, Thomas M. Menino, officially launches the 2012 New Balance Hubway season at noon on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The Mayor will be joined by Nicole Freedman, representatives from the Metropolitan Area Planning…
Sanford, Florida was founded as a transportation town, with admirable public space and smart urban planning. Those public plazas and parks are now the scene of frequent protests, but the divisions of public and private space may have set the scene for tensions behind the Trayvon Martin killing in the first place.
(Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF) A new study shows many Houston neighborhoods considered as “affordable” may turn out to be a lot more expensive when you factor in the cost of transportation. According to the figures, some people in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city find themselves paying more to travel to work and…
Nationally, America wants to level the trade deficit with China, and coal exports can help. But the Rocky Mountain towns where Asia-bound coal must pass through on massive rail crossings aren’t so thrilled.
The U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, is making a pair of speeches today on transit — one at the American Public Transportation Association, one at the National League of Cities. To coincide with that he’s announcing $25 million to plan future transit. Here’s the release: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced the availability of…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has promised that a proposed new casino/convention center in Queens wouldn’t cost anything to the NY MTA. But at a Crain’s Breakfast forum this week, an executive for the development firm set to build the complex seemed to carve out a loophole — one caused by the borough’s own transit…
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