PenTrans Update April 17th, 2012 - Wall St. Journal: Forget Transit

Rebecca Reyes-Alicea FRA and Petra Todorovich

Rebecca Reyes-Alicea, FRA,
Petra Todorovich, RPA
Business Alliance for Northeast Mobility

April 12 Meeting, Cira Centre

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PenTrans Board of Directors

Co-Chairs
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 17th, 2012

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Rep. Carroll explores concept of
using 1 percent sales tax to fund projects
New approach to transportation funding

-Pittston Sunday Dispatch
Camden Primed for Pedestrian-Friendly TOD

-Mobilizing the Region

NJ DOT offers 'Complete Streets'
for new, rebuilt thoroughfares
Forums explain how to share road

-Asbury Park Press

More Port Authority toll hikes likely?

-Asbury Park Press

Costs, delays plagued ARC tunnel project

-NorthJersey.com

Fate of "Dinky" train station:
Princeton vs. Princeton

-nj.com

PolitiFact N.J.: "Gas out" claim
sets Truth-O-Meter on fire

-nj.com

Presidential candidates need to
get serious about our future

-Long Beach Press-Telegram

Editorial: Americans don't want to live
in Ray LaHood's car-free utopia.
Why Your Highway Has Potholes

-The Wall Street Journal

Paul Krugman
Cannibalizing the future

-Charlotte Observer

James P. Repass
Good and bad N.E. public-transport news

-Providence Journal
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High Speed Rail-Go-round

Critics are targeting
the project's $68.4 billion cost
High-Speed Rail System Drops
San Diego, Disneyland from Proposal

-SanDiego.com

The basics of Central Florida Rail
SunRail studies who might
hop aboard commuter train

-SunSentinel

China Trainmaker CSR
Discusses Europe, Americas Acquisitions

-Bloomberg

Ridership on Taiwan's trains,
MRTs sets new records

-Focus Taiwon
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Big Plans * Bold Innovations * Bright Future

Regional Plan Association's

22nd Annual Regional Assembly

Add to your calendar:
April 27, 2012
Waldorf-Astoria, New York

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
followed by a reception

Now Available Free On Line
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

Energy Independent

(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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