PenTrans Update April 20th, 2012 - Pennsylvania stalls on battered road to nowhere

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 20th, 2012

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Pennsylvania stalls on
battered road to nowhere

-Scranton Times-Tribune

SEPTA, nation's ransit officials
train sights on repair backlog

-Columbia Daily Tribune

City wants to meet with
county, PennDOT on bus merger

-Hazletonstandardspeaker.com

Act 44 puts
Pa. transit fixes on turnpike's back

-GOlackawanna

Commuters encouraged to try
an alternative to driving alone
for Earth Day week

-York Daily Recotd

Transit ridership rises,
thanks to young commuters
and high gas prices

-philly.com

New Jersey Mass Transit
Moves More Passengers

-FairLawn Patch

Amtrak CEO: New rail tunnels
to New York critical

-philly.com

ARC tunnel project overruns
would have been New Jersey's
responsibility alone, senator says

-Newark Star-Ledger

Lautenberg Brawls With
Port Authority Exec Over Tolling

-DC Streetsblog

House passes bill with
Keystone pipeline provision

-Houston Business Journal

Democrats Joining G.O.P. on Pipeline

-NY Times

Senate Panel Approves $100 million
for High Performance Passenger Rail

-Mass Transit

Is The Era Of Smart Growth Over?

-CP&DR

Sustainability By Any Other Name

-Next American City

Why is the U.S. wealthier than
Europe? Give credit to its cities.

-Washington Post
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High Speed Rail-Go-round

California High Speed Rail Slammed
In New Government Report,
Defunding Project Recommended

-Huffington Post

California lawmakers in no rush
on high-speed rail bonds

-Reuters

Bordeaux to Spain
high speed line route approved

-Railway Gazette
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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

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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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