Looking at these pictures, it’s hard to believe it’s the United States of America, much less New York City. Unfortunately, it is just one of the many deteriorating subway stations in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. I know because I live there. – Kwokmanchung on YouTube
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Deteriorating Subway Station in Brooklyn
Monday, April 11th, 2011From Checkbook Campaigns to Civic Coalitions: Lessons from the Passage of Prop A
Monday, April 4th, 2011
PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI–ST. LOUIS
On April 6, 2010 the voters of St. Louis County approved a tax increase for transit with a surprising 63 percent majority. The 1⁄2 cent sales tax now raises about $75 million a year to maintain the bus system and expand light rail. Seventeen months earlier a similar initiative had lost with 48 percent of the vote. With the economy in a recession in 2010, unemployment high, and the anti- tax Tea Party movement rising around the nation, the huge majority for Prop A was startling. In this paper we try to explain the success of Prop A and tease out the lessons for future tax initiative campaigns and civic coalitions.
NYC, April 15th: Regional Plan Association’s Regional Assembly 2011: “Innovation and the Global City”
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
This year’s Regional Assembly, “Innovation and the Global City,” will explore what global cities, from Singapore to London, and from Stockholm to New York, are doing to remain competitive on the world stage.
View this complete post...MTA LIRR Proposed Colonial Road Improvement Project
Monday, March 28th, 2011MTA Long Island Rail Road is conducting an environmental review of its proposed replacement of the Colonial Road Bridge in Great Neck and extension of an existing pocket or turning track crucial to improving service on the Port Washington Branch.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Maya Wiley, Director, Center for Social Inclusion
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Maya Wiley is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Social Inclusion…She was a contributing author to the National Urban League’s 2006 State of Black America, and authored a chapter on Race, Equity and Land Use Planning in Columbia, South Carolina recently published in Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity, R. Bullard, ed. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (2007). She was named a NY Moves magazine 2009 Power Woman.
View this complete post...TECH FOR TRANSIT: DESIGNING A FUTURE SYSTEM
Friday, March 25th, 2011
LATITUDE & NEXT AMERICAN CITY
In late 2010, Latitudeº asked 18 participants (10 from Boston, 8 from San Francisco) not to use their cars for one week. The vast majority of participants had ranked cars as their most necessary form of transportation, with the remainder using their cars at least weekly.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Marc Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League, and former Mayor of New Orleans
Friday, March 11th, 2011
As President of the National Urban League since 2003 Marc Morial has been the primary catalyst for an era of change — a transformation for the 100 year old civil rights organization. As Mayor of New Orleans, he was a popular chief executive with a broad multi-racial coalition who led New Orleans’ 1990’s renaissance, and left office with a 70% approval rating.
View this complete post...Detroit Light Rail in Stop-Motion
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011It’s time for Detroit to reclaim the mantle of transportation innovation. A light rail line running down the middle of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue, “Mainline Option A,” will be faster, safer, and more reliable than the side-running alternative, “Mainline Option B.” Let’s bring the trains down the middle! Tell it to the feds by March 14: take a moment to submit a comment to woodwardlightrail@detroitmi.gov. See TransportMichigan.org for more information.
-TrainsDownTheMiddle on YouTube
LA County: Analysis of the Economic Conditions Facing Low-Income MTA Riders, 2006-2010
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
BUS RIDERS UNION
Part one provides a profile of workers who use public transportation as their commute mode, and finds that a disproportionate share live in low-income households, are less likely to have access to a car, rent rather than own their homes, and belong to a minority group.
Video: Transporting America: Proterra
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011Proterra was founded in 2004 to build the “bus of tomorrow.” And with the help of the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration, the company has succeeded–creating an electric bus that can be recharged in under ten minutes. But Proterra is doing more than just creating a greener, cleaner mode of transportation–it’s […]
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