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Colorado: High Speed Rail Feasibility Study

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAIL AUTHORITY
Colorado has a unique transportation challenge. Our mountain resorts and metropolitan areas play a special role as national and international attractions. The vast majority of the state’s commercial and recreational centers are connected by just two major highways, I-70 and I-25. Traffic congestion is increasing in both corridors, impeding travel during weekdays on I-25 and weekends on I-70.

For illustrative purposes, one of those options was further optimized and used to develop a sample implementation plan as part of this report. That implementation plan identifies four potential phases for having high-speed rail operational in Colorado as early as 2021.

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Tags: Aspen, Beaver Creek, Blackhawk, Breckenridge, CDOT, Central City, Cheyenne, CO, colorado, Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado Springs, Copper Mountain, Denver, Federal Railroad Administration, Fort Collins, FRA, Keystone, Pueblo, RMRA, Rocky Mountain Rail Authority, Steamboat Springs, Trinidad, Vail, WY
Posted in Competitiveness, Congestion, Funding, High Speed Rail, Infra Views, Local, Rail, Technology, Transit

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Future of Transportation National Survey (2010)

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA

American voters overwhelmingly support broader access to public transportation and safe walking and biking, according to this new national poll conducted for Transportation for America.

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Tags: Poll, T4America, Transportation for America
Posted in Biking, Clean Air, Competitiveness, Congestion, Environment, Highway, Infra Views, National, Public Opinion, Public Transportation, Recovery, Roads, Smart Growth, Transit, Urban Planning

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Transit Oriented Development – A New Interactive Planning Tool

Monday, March 29th, 2010

The goal of the newly-released Mixed Income Transit Oriented Development Action Guide is to “help practitioners identify the most appropriate and effective planning tools for achieving MITOD in their transit station area, and ultimately to facilitate the development of mixed-income communities across the U.S.” It was developed by the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD) along with the Federal Transit Administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Tags: Center for Transit Oriented Development, CTOD, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, HUD, Interactive, MITOD, Mixed Income Communities, Mixed Income Transit Oriented Development, Transit-Oriented Development, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Posted in Competitiveness, Equity, Funding, Local, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Racism, Recovery, Smart Growth, Sustainability, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

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High-Speed Rail: Track to the Future?

Monday, March 29th, 2010

BLUEPRINT AMERICA
With the one-year mark of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan approaching last month, the White House selected 13 passenger rail corridors in 31 states to receive funding. High-speed rail projects in Florida, Illinois and California were the big winners.

Here’s the dream: A sleek, state-of-the-art train that whisks you from LA to San Francisco in less than three hours, and helps save the planet while doing so.

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Tags: Blueprint America, CA, California, KCET, Los Angeles, PBS, Seattle, WA, Washington
Posted in Competitiveness, Energy, Funding, Green, High Speed Rail, Infra Views, Local, National, Rail, Transit, Urban Planning

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The Good Haul: Innovations That Improve Freight Transportation and Protect the Environment

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but it comes at a high price for the environment and local communities. Moving freight creates traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic air pollution and noise in local communities. Without thoughtful infrastructure and operations improvements, projected increases in trade threaten to make these problems worse and place greater strains on the nation’s aging infrastructure.

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Tags: Brownsville, CA, California, Chicago, Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, College Station, CREATE, Diesel-electric hybrid, EDF, Environmental Defense Fund, FL, Florida, Freight, Hampton Roads, hybrid, IL, Illinois, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Maritime, Norfolk, PA, Pennsylvania, Point Manatee, Ports, Richmond, San Diego, Seattle, Shipping, Texas, Trucking, tugboat, TX, VA, Virginia, WA, Washington
Posted in Carbon Tax, Clean Air, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Congestion, Environment, Green, Highway, Infra Views, Inland Waterways, Local, National, Roads

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Transmission Policy for Solar Generation

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION
Solar generators are stuck playing by the rules crafted in an era of coal‐fired power plants. What we need now is an investment in infrastructure to connect areas rich in solar resources with major population centers. A new, solar‐ friendly transmission grid will only be possible if significant changes are made to transmission policy in this country.

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Tags: noise, Solar Energy, Solar Energy Industries Association, Solar Power
Posted in Climate Change, Competitiveness, Energy, Green, Infra Views, Local, National, Smart Growth, Technology

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US Senate Action Fuels Infra Expenditures

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

“With $15 billion of investments, it unleashes tens of billions of dollars more in infrastructure – to build the infrastructure for the future in terms of how it unleashes funds from the highway trust fund.”
-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Speaker

“One proven way to create good jobs in America is to build and maintain transportation infrastructure. By also authorizing the Highway Trust Fund through the end of 2010, this bill guarantees that states will be able to continue doing just that.”
-Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation

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Tags: AASHTO, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Barbara Boxer, CA, California, Chris Dodd, Coalition for America's Gateways and Trade Corridors, Connecticut, CT, HIRE, HIRE Act, Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment, House of Representatives, Leslie Blakey, Nancy Pelosi, Ray LaHood, SAFETEA-LU, Secretary of Transportation, Senate, Speaker
Posted in Bipartisan, Competitiveness, Congestion, Economic Stimulus, Employment, Funding, Highway, Jobs, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Recovery, Roads, Smart Growth, The Infra Blog, Transit

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Infrastructure a Topic at New York City Summit on April 7-8, 2010

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

McGraw Hill Global Construction Summit - Register Now

McGraw-Hill Construction will host their Global Construction Summit on April 7-8, 2010 at The McGraw-Hill Companies’ headquarters in New York City. The event, focusing on “Winning Business in World Markets,” will bring together country delegations from the major construction markets of Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Australia to explore solutions to global industry challenges and participate in discussions regarding business development opportunities, industry trends, innovations and best practices. For more information, or to register please visit http://construction.com/events/globalsummitny.

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Tags: Construction, Global Construction Summit, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York City, NY, Winning Business in World Markets
Posted in Bipartisan, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Environment, Funding, Global, Land Use, National, Policy, Private Investment, Recovery, Smart Growth, Technology, The Infra Blog, Urban Planning

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Moving Forward: A Better Way to Govern Regional Transportation

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

CITY CLUB OF PORTLAND
Is the governance structure for transportation (including planning, allocation of federal and state funds to specific projects, and other top-level decision making) in the Portland metropolitan region adequate to meet the needs of a region facing significant growth, aging infrastructure, and climate change?

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Tags: City Club of Portland, Columbia River Crossing (CRC), Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation within Metro, JPACT, OR, Oregon, PDX, Portland
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Competitiveness, Congestion, Green, Highway, Infra Views, Policy, Public Transportation, Roads, Transit, Urban Planning

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Petra Todorovich is Director of America 2050, a national urban planning initiative to develop an infrastructure and growth strategy for the United States. She has written articles on transportation and infrastructure policy and is a frequent speaker on the topics of transportation policy, megaregions, and national planning. Prior to the launch of America 2050, Ms. Todorovich directed Regional Plan Association’s Region’s Core program and coordinated the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a network of organizations that came together shortly after 9/11 to promote the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and Lower Manhattan.

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Tags: America 2050, Gas tax, New York, NY, Petra Todorovich, Regional Plan Association, RPA
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Competitiveness, Employment, Funding, High Speed Rail, Highway, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Rail, Recession, Recovery, The Infra Blog, Transit

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Archive for the ‘Competitiveness’ Category

Colorado: High Speed Rail Feasibility Study

Future of Transportation National Survey (2010)

Transit Oriented Development – A New Interactive Planning Tool

High-Speed Rail: Track to the Future?

The Good Haul: Innovations That Improve Freight Transportation and Protect the Environment

Transmission Policy for Solar Generation

US Senate Action Fuels Infra Expenditures

Infrastructure a Topic at New York City Summit on April 7-8, 2010

Moving Forward: A Better Way to Govern Regional Transportation

Guest on The Infra Blog: Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050

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