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Hi Everyone! This is Bill Spriggs and I have found several news articles, links and blogs that I wanted to share along THE BACK FENCE & beyond in this Wednesday Edition, June 27, 2012. |
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West Corridor, Denver & Region
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RTD-FasTracks.com
Grade Crossing Safety Changes
June 2012
The Federal Transit Administration has asked transit agencies, including RTD, to review all at-grade crossings and make recommendations for safety enhancements. This pdf details safety changes that have/will be made along the West Rail Line.
READ MORE...TheDenverPost.com
Bike to Work Day Promotes Short, Two-Wheeled Commutes By Tegan Hanlon, Jun 26, 2012
Jean-Baptiste Deloffre registered to join more than 14,000 bicyclists who vowed to make the two-wheeled commute Wednesday for Bike to Work Day. BoulderDailyCamera.com
Bike to Work Day Wednesday Promises to be a Scorcher By John Aguilar, Jun 25, 2012 Participants in Wednesday's Bike to Work Day will have more breakfast stations to choose from this year than last, but they will have more than 10 extra degrees of heat to contend with as well.
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National
| DC.StreetsBlog.org
1,000 Days With No Transpo Bill. How Much Longer Will the Wait Last? By Tanya Snyder, Jun 26, 2012
Conference negotiations are continuing, Congressional staffers are getting no sleep, legislators could even lose their weekend if they don't get this transportation bill done. Politico noted this morning a key fact that seems to be flying under the radar: the deadline isn't really Saturday. It's actually today, if House members are to have the requisite three days to read the bill.
TransportationNation.com
Three Scenarios if Time Runs Out on Transportation Negotiations
By Larry Ehl, Jun 25, 2012
There are three scenarios if Congress cannot enact a transportation bill by Friday night when SAFETEA-LU expires, and Congress departs for a July 4 in-state work period). The scenarios depend almost exclusively on the answer to one question: how close are negotiators to a deal? We'll know the answer by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
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TransportationNation.org
US DOT Doles Out $500 Million to Transportation Projects Around U.S.
By Jim O'Grady, Jun 22, 2012 Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is on a conference call right now talking to reporters about the latest round of TIGER grants. Here's a press release describing some of them.
Salon.com
Moving Back Home: The New Key to Success By Will Doig, Jun 23, 2012 After nine years in Brooklyn, N.Y., Emily Farris, Midwestern cuisine queen, decided she was sick of baking tuna casseroles in a kitchen that was also a hallway. "I was sharing a tiny apartment. I wanted to live like an adult," she says, "and in New York I couldn't afford to do that."READ MORE...
PriceTags.WordPress.com
Don't Count on the Young 'Uns to Buy Your House June 22, 2012 Despite potential increases in new construction, most of the houses that seniors will release in coming years were built when energy was inexpensive, nuclear families were the rule, incomes were increasing for most Americans, and mortgages were generally predictable and easy to obtain. READ MORE...TheAtlanticCities.com
The Grave Health Risks of Unwalkable Communities By Michael Mehaffy & R.J. Jackson, 6/25
Safe, walkable neighborhoods are not just an amenity, they're a matter of life or death.
GreaterGreaterWashington.org
Citizens Make Big Impact With Low-Cost Bus Stop Seating By Matt Caywood, Jun 25, 2012
For weary bus riders, especially seniors and people with disabilities, comfortable seating at bus shelters is a necessity. Even while many governments expand bus service, they often regard seating as an unaffordable or unneeded luxury. In one corner of northern Virginia, a group of residents have crafted a grassroots solution, giving their neighbors a place to sit while they wait for the next bus. READ MORE...TheAtlanticCities.com
The Secret Conservative War on Zoning By Anthony Flint, Jun 26, 2012
The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobbying group known for pushing the "Stand Your Ground" gun lesilation that factored into the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, may be getting into a new line of business: planning and zoning.
Grist.org
Adapting to Climate Change: Necessary but Difficult and Expensive
By David Roberts, Jun 22, 2012
There is no longer any question of preventing climate change. Some 98 percent of working climate scientists agree that the atmosphere is already warming in response to human greenhouse-gas emissions, and the most recent research suggests that we are on a path toward what were once considered "worst case" scenarios.
TheAtlanticCities.com
Rise of the Creative Class - Revisited By Richard Florida, Jun 25, 2012
It's been ten years since I published - and a bit longer than that since I wrote The Rise of the Creative Class- It would be an understatement to say that a lot has changed since then. We've see a whole series of world-shattering events-from the collapse of the tech bubble and 9/11, to the economic and financial meltdown of 2008...READ MORE...TheNewYorkTimes.com
Your Ad Here, on a Fire Truck? Broke Cities Sell Naming Rights
by Micheal Cooper, Jun 24, 2012
After Baltimore officials made the wrenching decision to close three fire companies later this summer, the City Council initially sought to avert the cuts with a new money-raising strategy: it passed a resolution this month urging the administration to explore selling ads on the city's fire trucks.
READ MORE...TheNewYorkTimes.com
A Georgia Town Takes the People's Business Private
If your image of a city hall involves a venerable building, some Roman pillars and lots of public employees, the version offered by this Atlanta suburb of 94,000 residents is a bit of a shocker.READ MORE...TheAtlanticCities.com
Can Solar Panels and Historic Preservation Get Along? By Kaid Benfield, Jun 25, 2012
I believe that historic preservation the right context - a healthy neighborhood - can be intrinsically green. Most historic buildings, at least the ones constructed before the days of freeways and urban flight, are on walkable streets in relatively central locations.
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International (when available)
| Online.WallSt.Journal.com
Hope for London Housing
Anita Likus, Jun 26, 2012
Four Major Projects That Would Create 25,000 Homes Are Moving Forward. The mixed-use projects are expected to create 25,000 new homes as well as stores and offices over the next decade.
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My NYC Biking Story: Dr. Jen Petersen
By Robin Urban Smith, Jun 22, 2012
Riding a bike is a big part of Dr. Jen Petersen's everyday life and it also plays a significant role in her academic and professional careers. Her 2011 dissertation toward a Ph.D. in Sociology, Whose Streets? Paving the Right to the City, was largely influenced by riding her bike on the changing streets of NYC.
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Things you need to know along the West Corridor
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>Denver Union Station Historic Summer Tours, June 28, July 12, & July 26, 2012 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
The Denver Union Station Project Authority (DUSPA) will be conducting free guided tours of the Denver Union Station redevelopment site this summer. This guided tour will emphasis the early station history and famous travelers who visited Denver by Train. The tour will also tell visitors about all the exciting new features that will soon be part of, and surround, the historic station. The one-hour tour will start inside the Great Train Hall at the historic station, 1701 Wynkoop Street. Participation is limited to 35 people per tour. To reserve your spot, visit. RSVP here [Scroll down on left]
[Note: in just 11 short months West Corridor residents will be able bike to a West Rail Line station, jump on board with their bikes, get off at Union Station & cycle just six blocks to Coors Field and LEAVE THE CAR BEHIND. But until then, those of you adventurous souls who can commute to downtown, check out the facilities in place this year.] 
2012 schedule of Ride to the Rockies Games July 01, Aug 05, & Sept 02. All games are Sunday Day games. Over the course of 20 games this season the Rockies along with media partners ROOT SPORTS, 850 KOA and The Denver Post will once again be enlisting players and fans toward making a positive impact on the environment through the 2012 Games of Green initiative. NEXT BIKE TO THE GAME! WHEN: Sunday, June 03, for the game against the LA Dodgers. Bike lot opens at 11:30 a.m. and closes 10 minutes after the game ends.
WHERE: Coors Field, the special Bike to the Game secure parking lot at 21st and Blake St., across from Gate C.
WHAT: Check in at the Bike to the Game Tent at the entrance to the bike lot at 21st and Blake to enter a drawing for great prizes, like a Rockies Batting Practice experience, Rockies tickets, autographed items and more. >Lakewood/Denver, Friday, June 29, 2012 9:30am
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Sheridan Parking Structure!
9:30am on the NW corner of 10th Avenue and Sheridan Blvd.
Speakers at the event: Mayor Michael B. Hancock; RTD General Manager Phil Washington; ULC Real Estate Manager Debra Bustos; RTD Board Member, Angie Malpiede; and Scott Conrad. The very popular RTD West Corridor bus tours are back but ending soon!! All tours will be from 9am to 11am on the 3rd Friday of the month (July thru Sept). Each reservation that is made is for one seat only; please sign-up all attendees individually. You will receive e-mail confirmation within one week of your registration. Click here to register
AUGUST 20-26th, 2012
SEPTEMBER 21-23RD, 2012
Denver Union Station
Construction Cam
Golden Jeffco Station
Construction Cam
Wish You Could Find an Apartment/Condo near a Light Rail Station? As part of TBF's continuing efforts to bring TOD's to the West Corridor & elsewhere, this link from Walk Score.com will now be a permanent feature. Thanks. |
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Commercial Real Estate Assemblages, Land or Buildings Available on The West Corridor
Please note: TBF does not
own or sell any real property.
Prices displayed may not be correct.
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>4917 West 11th Ave Assemblage
>10th Avenue Light Rail Assemblage
>1010 Sheridan Blvd TOD Site
>13th Avenue & Newland St., Light Rail Vacant Land
>5830 West Colfax Ave
>1025 Ammons Complex
>6990 West Colfax Ave Pad Site
THE BACK FENCE supports a corridor wide, regional vision, with individual nodes of unique "places" within that corridor. We hope that the listing of commercial properties available will help to speed this vision to fruition sooner. Learn more about this vision below from the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.
RTD West Rail Line video flyover (entire line from Union Station to the Golden Jeffco Station.
West Corridor Vision
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Things You Need to Know Around the Region
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>Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Bike to Work Day in the Denver Region Get set to win prizes for individual and business challenge categories.
Pedal to Work instead of driving the old burdenmobile.
Remember: A bicycle burn fat and saves you money
A Car burns money and makes you fat. Click here to learn more... THE TRANSIT ALLIANCE IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FALL 2012 AND SPRING 2013 ACADEMIES! Please note that the Academy application process is competitive as they only have 50 slots available and usually have 100 applicants or more. Applications must be submitted by 5 PM on August 17th to be considered for the Fall 2012 Academy. The Fall Academy (2012-02) will begin September 5 and end on October 17, 2012. Tour de FasTracks - West Rail Ride Bike Event Saturday, Sept 08, 2012 Calling all cyclists in Golden, Lakewood, west Denver, and the Denver Region. The RTD FasTracks West Rail Line which will serve our West Corridor will host a bike event on Saturday, September 08, 2012 to show off its magnificent bike path that parallels most of the future "W" line. The Back Fence, in the coming months, always a huge supporter of alternatives to the single occupier automobile, will advocate for the "final mile" and call for more and safer cycle access from the light rail stations. We also consider the bicycle as not only a recreational vehicle, but a tool of economic empowerment that helps our citizens stay healthy and keeps more expendable cash in their pockets in which to enhance our local businesses; and I won't bore you with lectures on sustainability, oil dependence and air quality. Although the Tour de FasTracks event is billed as a "leisurely ride" that will start at the future Oak Street Station parking area and end at the Decatur Federal Station, there also will be a stage for the intermediate and advanced cyclists that will start at the Jefferson County Government Center-Golden Station. Details will be forthcoming, but you can Click here to view the current RTD bike path.
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