PenTrans Update April 30th, 2012 - Funding Crisis: Will Our Reps. Help End It?

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PenTrans Update

April 30th, 2012

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Highway funding advocates
to miss ousted Pa. lawmaker

-Cumberlink.com

Auditor General Jack Wagner Says
Philadelphia Motorists Twice as Likely
to Pass Deficient Bridge than a McDonald's

-MarketWatch

A trip on the North Shore Connector

-METBLOGS Pittsburgh

A Philadelphia public transit vacation

-Washington Post

Partnerships boost Erie bus ridership

-GOErie

Senate names conferees for highway bill
- T&I's Altmire, Holden lose primaries

-Politico

House names 33 conferees
to highway funding bill

-The Hill

Peter Javsicas op-ed
Why Congress should adopt
the Senate transportation bill

-Philadelphia Daily News

Editorial
Cars, Trains and Partisan Posturing

-NY Times

Maybe the System Really Is Working

-National Journal Transp. Experts

Richard Florida
Why Bigger Cities Are Greener

-Atlantic Cities

Green Infrastructure
Could Save Cities Billions

-Atlantic Cities

Neal Peirce
U.S. metro regions on the rise

-Denver Post

Kyle Smith, Scott Bernstein
Remaking Chicago as a Complete Region,
Not Just a Global Node

-Planetizen

Clarence Eckerson
San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets
With Innovative Solutions

-Streetfilms

LA's Figueroa Blvd. Comeback

-ArchitectsNewspaper

Justin Davidson
Countdown to a New Times Square

-NY Times

Mass transit gains momentum
in Houston Area Survey

-Houston Chronicle

Smart growth is a start. But it's not enough.

-Kaid Benfield's blog

Book Review
A Thorough New Look at Mega Regions

-The Urbanophile

Infrastructure projects need
public support, transportation experts say

-Washington Post

Gas prices: It's not our fault.

-philly.com

Transportation and the New Generation:
Why Young People are Driving Less
and What it Means for Transportation Policy

-Energy Bulletin

Donald Shoup OP-ED
New LA stadium should offer free parking

-LA Times

Public-private deals
seen boosting U.S. road projects

-Reuters

Study: Low-Income Neighborhoods
Much More Likely to Have Dangerous Roads

-Streetsblog

PRINCETON:
Township OKs funding for transit study

-Princeton Packet
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High Speed Rail-Go-round

Garl B. Latham
The case for time efficiency
(Grid and Gateway, part 4)

-Progressive Railroading

100 Fresno Businesses
Oppose High Speed Rail in California

-eNewsChannels

High-speed rail No. 1 target for
Republican candidates

-The Fresno Bee

Alice van Diggelin
Can California Afford High Speed Rail?
Jerry Brown Still Bullish, Likens it
to Cathedral Building

-Huffington Post

New Statewide California Passenger Rail
Plan Clears Committee

-San Francisco Chronicle
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We have met the enemy and it is fossil fuels

-Post Carbon Institute

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- Urban Ventures Group, Inc.
Joseph DiFiore

-PB

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Karen Gelman
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Court Gould
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Jennie Granger
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Carol Martsolf

-WTS

Patrick Starr
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Julie Green
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Vukan Vuchic
         - UPenn
Rick Wooten
   - Malady & Wooten

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