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Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Kathryn Phillips is the Director of the California Transportation and Air Initiative at Environmental Defense Fund. Before joining Environmental Defense, Kathryn was the senior policy advisor at the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT) in Sacramento, and a lobbyist for V. John White Associates. Kathryn also worked for nearly 20 years as a journalist. She wrote for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics, specializing in the later years on science and environmental issues. She is the author of two books about environmental issues.

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Tags: Blueprint America, CA, California Transportation and Air Initiative, CEERT, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, EDF, Environmental Defense Fund, Freight, Kathryn Phillips, Sacramento
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Competitiveness, Congestion, Environment, Green, Guests on The Infra Blog, Highway, National, Pollution, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Roads, Seaports, The Infra Blog, Transit

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Regional Plan Association (RPA) addresses infra issues at Regional Assembly 2010 in NYC, April 16th

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

REGIONAL ASSEMBLY 2010: INNOVATION & THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS
“The Regional Assembly is New York’s premier public policy event, bringing together several hundred top business, civic, philanthropic, media, and government leaders from across the metropolitan region and nation. Each year the Assembly focuses on a priority issue. This year, we examine how the innovative spirit and creativity of urban America can build and sustain a better future for our cities.”

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Tags: New York, NY, Regional Assembly, Regional Plan Association, RPA
Posted in Accountability, Aging Infrastructure, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Congestion, Energy, Environment, Funding, Green, High Speed Rail, Highway, Land Use, Local, National, Private Investment, Public Transportation, Rail, Recovery, Roads, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Technology, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

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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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Impacts of the Recession on Public Transportation Agencies: Survey Results

Monday, April 5th, 2010

AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Transit agencies have been forced to cut service, lay off employees, raise fares, slow capital improvements and take many other actions to survive. More troubling is that this comes at a time when transit use is at near modern record levels. This report, based on a March 2010 survey, provides a national perspective on the extent to which the current recession is affecting public transit agencies and the tens of millions of Americans who use their services.

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Tags: American Public Transportation Association, APTA, survey
Posted in Funding, Infra Views, National, Private Investment, Public Transportation, Rail, Tax, Transit

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TRANSIT IN SEATTLE, WA

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Seattle Transit Blog Flickr Pool

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Tags: Flickr, SEA Transit, Seattle, WA, Washington
Posted in Buses, Local, National, Public Transportation, Rail, Show Us Your Infra, Smart Growth, 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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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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Chicago-St. Louis 220-mph trains would create more than 40,000 jobs, reduce harmful CO2 emissions by nearly 200 million pounds: new study

Monday, March 8th, 2010

MIDWEST HIGH-SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION
CHICAGO, Ill. – Proposed 220-mph high speed rail to cut the Chicago-St. Louis trip to less than two hours would also provide a major boost to the economy and efforts to reduce harmful emissions

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Tags: carbon footprint, Chicago, IL, Illinois, MHSRA, Midwest High Speed Rail Association, Missouri, MO, St. Louis
Posted in Competitiveness, Employment, Environment, Green, High Speed Rail, Infra Views, Jobs, Local, Pollution, Rail, Recovery, Transit

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2010 Infrastructure Conference hosted by Iona College

Friday, February 26th, 2010

On April 8th, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York will host an surface transportation infrastructure conference that will bring together top-level business and political leaders. The conference, titled “Confronting the Crisis:Solving Our Regional Transportation Infrastructure Issues” will focus on regional needs as well as practical solutions going forward. Anyone who is interested in finding […]

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Tags: infrastructure conference, Iona College, transportation
Posted in Bridges, Highway, Infra, Rail, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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The Route to Reform: Blueprint for a 21st Century Federal Transportation Program

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

…America stands in desperate need of a new vision for our national transportation system. Just as the Interstate highway bill answered some of the most pressing mobility needs of the rapidly growing nation in the mid-20th century, a new federal surface transportation bill must answer the vastly different needs of America in the 21st century. The next transportation program must set about the urgent task of repairing and maintaining our existing transportation assets, building a more well-rounded transportation network, and making our current system work more efficiently and safely to create complete and healthy communities…

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Tags: The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, Transportation for America
Posted in Biking, Competitiveness, High Speed Rail, Highway, Infra Views, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Rail, Recovery, Roads, Transit, Urban Planning

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Regional Plan Association (RPA) addresses infra issues at Regional Assembly 2010 in NYC, April 16th

Colorado: High Speed Rail Feasibility Study

Impacts of the Recession on Public Transportation Agencies: Survey Results

TRANSIT IN SEATTLE, WA

High-Speed Rail: Track to the Future?

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

Chicago-St. Louis 220-mph trains would create more than 40,000 jobs, reduce harmful CO2 emissions by nearly 200 million pounds: new study

2010 Infrastructure Conference hosted by Iona College

The Route to Reform: Blueprint for a 21st Century Federal Transportation Program

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