August 16, 2012
Illinois MPO Advisory Council
Transportation News Brief
Illinois Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory
Council
233 S Wacker -
Suite 800
Chicago IL 60606
Small MPOs
--Danville
Area Transportation Study
--DeKalb-Sycamore
Area Transportation Study
--Kankakee
Area Transportation Study
--Stateline
Area Transportation Study
Mid Size MPOs
--Champaign Urbana
Urbanized Area Transportation Study
--Decatur
Urbanized Area Transportation Study
--McLean
County Regional Planning Commission
--Springfield
Area Transportation Study
Large MPOs
--Bi-State
Regional Planning Commission
--Chicago
Metropolitan Agency for Planning
--East-West Gateway
Council of Governments
--Peoria/Pekin
Urbanized Area Transportation Study
--Rockford
Metropolitan Agency for Planning
ILLINOIS NEWS
Civic group calls for
end to RTA
(Chicago Tribune)
DOT leaders get grand tour of Gateway area
(Clinton Herald)
Durbin announces $1.25 million investment to grow
new air service at central Illinois airports
(East Peoria Times Courier)
Employment Data Available by Legislative District
- New Service Compares Districts, Improves Planning (State of Illinois)
Jane Addams Memorial
Tollway Travel Survey
(Regional Transit Authority)
Leaders form
Amtrak Corridor Coalition
(Galesburg Register Mail)
Leucadia says it won't try to override Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of
coal-to-gas plant
(Chicago Tribune)
National Freight Policy
in MAP-21 (Chicago Metropolitan Agency For Planning)
Rahm Emanuel on
Upgrading Chicago's Infrastructure
(BusinessWeek)
Tollway board agrees to help fund
study of Highway 53 corridor
(Chicago Tribune)
Water report:
Sip, don't gulp (Evanston Now)
Will County pushes
Peotone action
while Jackson's absent (WBEZ)
NATIONAL NEWS
A New Tool To Help
Communities Create Walkable Places
(America walks)
Annual law enforcement campaign reminds everyone to "
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
" (Secretary Ray LaHood)
Google's Growing Web of
Street Traffic Surveillance
(The Atlantic Cities)
How Can Cities
Recapture Investment In Public Infrastructure
? (Next American City)
Making or Breaking a Town's Appeal to
Bicyclists & Pedestrians
(Planning Commissioner's Journal)
MARTA to keep rail expansion vision
alive (Progressive Railroading)
New Law Puts "
Bridge to Nowhere
" Back on Track (The Fiscal Times)
New report and companion workbook highlight
successful Complete Streets policies from across the United States
(Complete Streets)
Paving the Future of Transportation Policy
: What Congress Smoothed Over, and Where Potholes Remain (National Council of La Raza)
Video rising: News consumers,
mobile devices make video critical storytelling tool
(Talking Transportation)
Where the bike commuters
are, mapped & analyzed (Natural Resources Defense Council Blog)
Why Some Georgians Approved a
Transportation Sales Tax
(Governing Magazine)
Marta Elena Perales
MPO Statewide Coordinator
Illinois MPO Advisory Council
233 S Wacker Suite 800
Chicago IL 60606
marta@ilmpo.org
www.ilmpo.org