PenTrans Update April 2nd, 2012 - Responding to critics of public transportation

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Beverly Harper
Portfolio Associates, Inc.

Thomas J. Spearing, III.
Hill International, Inc.

Secretary-Treasurer
Tom Halterman
Urban Engineers, Inc.

Richard Amodei
STV, Inc.

Edward M. D'Alba
Urban Engineers, Inc.

Annemarie Byrnes

WTS

Dan Faust

AECOM

Thomas E. Frawley
Thomas E. Frawley Consulting

Denise Goren
Michael Baker, Jr. Inc.

Raynard Hughes
COMTO

Adam Krom
Amtrak

Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Richard P. Voith
Econsult Corporation

Executive Director
Peter Javsicas

PenTrans Member Organizations

AECOM
Bombardier
CH2MHILL
COMTO
DRM International, Inc. Econsult Corp.
Gannett Fleming
HDR, Inc.
Hill International
HNTB
IBI Group Jacobs Engineering
Jeffrey Parker & Associates, Inc.
LTK Engineering Services
Malady & Wooten LLC
McCormick Taylor Michael Baker Jr.
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
Portfolio Associates, Inc.
T&M Associates
SEPTA
STV, Incorporated
Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.
Urban Engineers, Inc.
URS Corp.
WTS

PenTrans Update

April 2nd, 2012

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Strategic rail system expansion
and improvements key topics

-NorthCentralPA.com

Why Philly Deserves Bike Share

-Next American City

North Shore Connector
Opens For First Rush Hour

-WTAE.com

Irony and ecstasy of Gateway T Station

-Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

BARTA medical transport
program gets reprieve

-Reading Eagle

Lebanon Valley Rail Trail
- good exercise and economics

-Lebanon Daily News

Pa. House authorizes
flood-damaged bridge repairs

-Bloomberg Businessweek

More than hybrid buses
- game changers at BARTA

-Reading Eagle

Senate approves 90-day
highway extension; sending
measure to President Obama

-The Hill

Transportation Authorization:
APTA thankful for 90-day extension

-APTA

Amtrak expects to more than
triple the number of track-miles

-Breaking Travel News

GE TV ad features
Transportation employees

-Railway Age

Pols Tiptoe Around Plan
To Revolutionize NYC's Toll System

-Transportation Nation

Q&A with 'Gridlock Sam' Schwartz:
Why We Need Cyclist Bridges

-Metro Focus

How charm and convenience
can make our communities more
resilient-and save our economy.
Death to the McMansion

-Slate

Action Guide for "mixed-income TOD"

-Reconnecting America

Responding to critics of public transportation

-Center for Transportation Excellence

Connecticut DOT eyes Interstate 95 tolls;
'value pricing' would let drivers skip congestion

-Milford-Orange Bulletin

"Pave Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot"

-NY Times

Inching toward energy independence

-NY Times

The Electric Car, Unplugged

-NY Times
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High Speed Rail-Go-round

High-speed rail plan
slashes costs to calm critics

-San Francisco Chronicle

Questions remain
despite revised Calif. rail plan

-San Francisco Chronicle

$1.5 billion Caltrain
deal packs some big extras

-San Francisco Chronicle

Bid to appease
bullet train critics may violate law

-LA Times

California high-speed rail:
Building a faster train faster

--89.3KPCC

Fresno County supervisors
back away from criticism of high-speed rail

-The Fresno Bee

Selling pollution credits could raise funds for high-speed trains

-Sacramento Bee
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DVRPC Wants You
for public participation task force

-DVRPC
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High-Speed Rail
International Lessons for U.S. Policy Makers

A landmark study that points the way to
projects such as HSR on the NEC

We have met the enemy and it is fossil fuels

-Post Carbon Institute
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Why U.S. Is Not

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(It's in the charts, folks)

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Andy Singer Cartoon

PenTrans Advisory Group

John Beckman
- Wallace Roberts & Todd

Beverly Coleman
- Urban Ventures Group, Inc.
Joseph DiFiore

-PB

John Dockendorf

-PennDOT

Karen Gelman
         - Amtrak
Court Gould
         - Sustainable Pittsburgh
Jennie Granger
         - AECOM
Joseph Guzzi
         - HNTB
Chris Jandoli

-Parsons Brinckerhoff

Carol Martsolf

-WTS

Patrick Starr
        - Penn Environmental Council
Julie Green
        - LTK Engineering Services
Vukan Vuchic
         - UPenn
Rick Wooten
   - Malady & Wooten

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