The Port is pushing the envelope with clean air goals through year 2023. -from Port of Long Beach on YouTube
View this complete post...Archive for the ‘Smart Growth’ Category
Pulse of the Port: CAAP Update
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Walk. Bike. Ride.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
CITY OF SEATTLE
We are at a turning point in transportation. We cannot sustain the financial, environmental and health costs of a transportation system that is overly reliant on automobiles. We need a new balanced approach that creates a transition. We are prepared to commit to that path by prioritizing walking, biking and transit in how we use our streets, how we spend our dollars, and how we collaborate with county, state and federal governments.
U.S. Solar Policy Impact Analysis
Monday, May 24th, 2010
SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION
In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created two programs that have helped the solar industry create U.S. jobs and deploy technologies: (1) a cash grant to be used in lieu of tax credits for renewable energy projects (TGP); and (2) tax credits for renewable energy manufacturing investments (MITC). Although the U.S. unemployment level remains high, the TGP is set to expire in December 2010 and the MITC funding allocation has been completely exhausted.
Rail Transit Expansion Reconsidered — Commentary
Monday, May 24th, 2010…fiscal realities can do wonders to bring federal officials down to earth. The Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund is barely solvent. The U.S. DOT budget will grow by only one percent in 2011. With commendable consistency and fairness, the Administration seems to have decided to apply the same investment standard to transit as it has preached and laid down for highways: Forget about massive capacity expansion; focus on getting the most out of the assets already in place by maintaining them in a state of good repair. To critics of the DOT’s new posture— and there will be some—a good answer could be: It’s just a different way of looking at what it means to be pro-transit.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Congressman Jerrold Nadler represents the Eighth Congressional District of New York. He began his political career in 1976 in the New York State Assembly, where he served for 16 years. In 1992, following the death of Congressman Ted Weiss, Nadler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election and has served in Congress ever since. He is the highest ranking Northeastern member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, an Assistant Democrat Whip, and the New York State Congressional Delegation’s representative on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
View this complete post...U.S. DOT’s Strategic Plan Creates Controversy With Its Emphasis on “Livability”
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010The Administration’s desire to impose its own vision of how Americans should live and travel represents a stubborn and in the end futile gesture. The gesture is futile for, as generations of political appointees before them have discovered, policies that do not resonate with the majority of Americans seldom survive after their authors have left office.
View this complete post...Funding the Transportation Needs of an Older Generation
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Rapid growth in the number of older people in the United States during the coming decades will lead to greatly increased needs for expanded and enhanced public transportation services. This report: a) identifies the range of actions that will be needed to expand mobility options for older people, including accessible public transportation services; b) quantifies the demand for these public transportation services; and c) estimates the funding that will be needed to provide them.
Pennywise, Pound Fuelish: New Measures of Housing + Transportation Affordability
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
The number of affordable communities in the U.S. shrinks by 30%, eliminating 48,000 communities, when both housing and transportation costs are considered.
Transportation Facts
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION EXCELLENCE
-314 jobs are created for each $10 million invested in transit capital funding and more than 570 jobs are created for each $10 million invested in shorter projects.
-American families spend 18% of their household budgets on transportation, making it the second largest household expenditure after housing.
-Building more roads isn’t always the answer to this growing problem. Each of the cities in the TTI study would require an average of 37 more lane miles to keep pace with just one year of increased traffic demand.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Polly Trottenberg, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Polly Trottenberg is currently the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation. She was previously the Executive Director of Building America’s Future, a new non-profit organization dedicated to bringing about a new era of U.S. investment in infrastructure that enhances our nation’s prosperity and quality of life.
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