PenTrans Update June 25th, 2012 - Why SEPTA is heading for a crash

PenTrans 2012 Annual Meeting

Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick,

PenTrans Board members

Dick Voith and Bev Harper

PenTrans Annual

Sustaining Members - Gold

PenTrans Annual

Sustaining Members - Silver

PenTrans Annual
Sustaining Members - Bronze

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.

Bert Cossaboon

McCormick Taylor

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

June 25th, 2012

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Pennsylvania

PenTrans Board Member Dick Voith comments
Why SEPTA is Heading for a Crash

-Philadelphia citypaper

Pittsburgh-area transit agency
approves $333M budget with
service cuts, fare hikes, layoffs

-Columbus Republic

Company seeks hike in fares to airport

-Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Big Step for Paoli Transportation Center

-Tredyffrin-EasttownPatch

Lawmakers eye private sector
role in transportation projects

-Reading Eagle

New Jersey

NJ committee advances
transportation spending bill

-BloombergBusinessweek

Chris Christie's transportation
bond bill: Read it and weep

-Newark Star-Ledger

NJ Transit bus that goes
through Verona, Cedar Grove
on the chopping block

-Verona-Cedar Grove Times

Laurel Lake residents
to have bus access to
Millville, NJ Transit stops

-News of Cumberland County

N.J. slams the brakes on
controversial red light cameras

-Newark Star-Ledger

Delaware

$10 million U.S. Grant
Bolsters Newark Station Expansion

-delawareonline

Rail expansion will spur economic growth

-delawareonline

Nation & World

U.S. senators optimistic
deal close on transport bill

-Reuters

Last Lap for Transportation Bill

-NY Times

Congress faces
Saturday deadline on highway bill

-CNN

Clock ticking on
transportation bill in Congress

-WJBC Chicago

A long (working) weekend on transpo
- Staff putting agreements on paper

-Politico

With Deadline Approaching, House GOP Still
Holding Hostage 1.9 Million Transp. Jobs

-Think Progress

Reid and Boehner say they want
transportation bill finished by June 30

-Washington Post

Pelosi scolds GOP
for inaction on transportation

-San Francisco Chronicle

As Some in Congress Push to Eliminate
Funds for Safe Walking and Biking, Fatality
Data Shows Deaths in All Congressional Districts

-Transportation for America

Transp. Reauthorization
May Depend On Keystone Pipeline Mandate

-Hawaii Reporter

Obama: Time for House GOP to
do its part on student loans, transportation

-CBS News

Congress should fund the highway bill,
not the student loan cut

-Washington Post

Ken Brooks
Let's ride the train

-Payson Roundup

APA National Poll
Planning in America: Perceptions and Priorities

-APA

Big Competitors KO Chinatown Buses

-Fast Company

Downtown neighborhood welcomes
new intermodal transportation center

-NBC 17 Raleigh

High Speed Rail-go-round

House Puts the Brakes on High Speed Rail

-Fiscal Times

California getting lapped
in high-speed rail race

-Vacaville Reporter

California bullet train
faces tough vote in Senate

-LA Times

Bill lets Caltrans skip newspaper notices

-MercuryNews.com

Mayors Ask State Legislators
for High-Speed Rail Funds

-Gilroy Patch

Jim Wunderman
Revised high-speed rail
plan deserves support

-Oakland Tribune

High-speed interstate rail feasible in Georgia

-OnlineAthens

Study: High-speed trains
across South are feasible

-Associated Press

'Ferrari' train
driving high-speed rail renaissance

-KTVQ Billings

We have met the enemy and it is fossil fuels

-Post Carbon Institute

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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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