John Hennessy III,
P.E.
Silicon Valley is booming. The economy has come roaring back since the 2008 downturn. In 2013, the total surged past even the 1999 high-water mark of the dot-com boom, and there are more total jobs in the county than ever before. That roaring economy has an impact everyone feels: more traffic.
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Public transit ridership is on the decline in California. But why? Researchers at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) looked at the data to figure out what’s going on and how the problem could be solved.
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Ford Motor Company has acquired the iconic Michigan Central Station and plans to transform it into the centerpiece of a vibrant new campus in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood that will serve as an innovation hub for Ford’s vision for the future of transportation. See the recap of the conference and how Ford is creating a new tomorrow together.
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The importance of the overall initiative is twofold: one is infrastructure. Public infrastructure lays the foundation for economic development, lays the foundation for recruiting new businesses and creating a sustainability for communities. More importantly at the current time, it’s created jobs.
In 2013, the Nevada State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 413 to fund critical roadway improvements. Since then, we’ve awarded $620,000,000 dollars, created 8,000 jobs, funded 225 projects, and employed 78 local small businesses.
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Portland’s population is expected to grow rapidly over the next 20 years. The city adopted a new policy to prioritize walking first, before all other modes of transportation. PedPDX is Portland’s city-wide pedestrian plan. It will prioritize sidewalks, crossings and other investments to make walking safer and more comfortable across the city.
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Our goals in this research were to help improve the region’s capacity to adapt to both a changing climate and changes in land use and to better understand the costs of both action and inaction across a wide range of futures. Drawing on experience in Louisiana and other coastal environments, we set out to build a transparent, interactive, and technically credible approach to decision support to assess vulnerabilities and gain insights into the potential strategies to reduce vulnerabilities under a range of climate and land use futures. Our work builds on the strong base of leadership and technical capacity already present in the region.
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Each weekday, half a dozen bus routes carrying 19,000 riders travel the 1.2-mile stretch of Washington Street to the Forest Hill Orange Line Station. Most people on the street at rush hour are riding in buses. Until May, the bus commute was usually slow and unreliable. When Mayor Walsh and the Boston Transportation Department converted a parking lane on Washington Street into a pilot bus lane during the morning rush hour, all of that changed. Bus travel time improvements were noticeable immediately.
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As with many major proposals, the numbers don’t quite add up just yet. Walker wanted to make up the deficit by increasing taxes, but this idea was rejected by state lawmakers. Without the additional state funding though, Alaska will have to rely on help from the federal government. By supplying $280 million in state funds on its own, Alaska would receive $1.1 billion in matching funds from federal funding. Critics of the proposal note that Alaska is currently running out of savings, and faces a $2.4 billion deficit.
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Andy Byford, President of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) expresses his admiration for the Big Apple’s extensive transit system. He promises that, along with 50,000 employees, the MTA will transform the subway, reimagine the bus network, accelerate accessibility and engage and empower employees to provide outstanding customer service.
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Affordable transportation such as bicycling is a critical part of the fabric of a healthy city. The purpose of this report is to highlight the economic benefits of bicycle infrastructure or other improvements by calculating and assigning a dollar value to every additional bicycle mile generated by those improvements. These figures can then be used to calculate the effectiveness of specific projects – and to advocate for those projects that make economic sense.
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