PenTrans Update August 13th, 2012 - Automobiles, Cheap Energy and Debt

PenTrans Annual Meeting 6.14.12

PenTrans Board members Dick Voith and Anna Lynn Smith explain results of PenTrans survey

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Sustaining Members - Silver

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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.

Yassmin Gramian
HNTB

Adam Krom

Amtrak

Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Richard P. Voith

Econsult Corporation

Emile Williams
COMTO

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

August 13th, 2012

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Pennsylvania

Pa. State Transportation Commission
Approves 2013 Update
to 12-Year Transportation Program

U.S. Politics Today

Cuts in ACCESS Transit
Staved Off - For Now

-Robinson-Moon PATCH

Pittsburgh-area transit agency
has new union deal

-wfmj.com

SEPTA Wins Best Transit Award,
Deserves Some Credit (and Criticism)

-Transportation Nation

Next Generation Northeast Corridor
(Nex Gen NEC) planning

-Philadelphia Weekly Press

Rail Investment Plan
for the Northeast Corridor

-Federal Railroad Administration

Planners look to speed, improve rail service

-Philadelphia Inquirer

Locals teach commuters
to combine biking, transit

-Norristown Times Herald

Susquehanna Township School District
removes certain bus stops

-pennlive.com

Pennsylvania Raccoon Road Kill
Painted Over, Photo Goes Viral

-ABC

New Jersey

NJ awards safe corridor, bikeway grants

-myCentralJersey.com

NJ Transit Adds
"Bike-Friendly" Weekend Trains

-Mobilizing the Region

Metro-North to expand service
on Pascack Valley Line

-lohud.com

Christie approves expansion
of transit hub tax credit

-NorthJersey.com

Gloucester County releases study
on business development near light rail stops

-nj.com

NJ Transit, Amtrak
work to upgrade Corridor Line

-Asbury Park Press

New Jersey Transit to make room for
more bicycles on trains

-Progressive Railroading

Hightstown passes
controversial taxi ordinance

nj.com

NJ Transit gets its
highest rider scores to date

-Asbury Park Press

Nation & World

Amtrak Food Service Lost
$834 Million in 10 Years, Mica Says

-Bloomberg

HOT , HOV or "freeways"?
They're all too cheap

-NYU scienceline

Public-Housing Parking Lots
Make Everyone Poorer

-Bloomberg

Rail May Hold its Own Against Pipelines

-oilprice.com

Back on track: Resurgence of railroads
across America creates new jobs

-Fox News.com

The Rise of Economic Segregation

-Atlantic Cities

Industry Leaders Connect Sustainability
and State of Good Repair

-Mass Transit

Fiscal Responsibility Through Sustainability

-Mass Transit

Watch this talk to the National
Conference of State Legislatures Annual Summit
"Our desire for independence has made us dependent. On automobiles. On cheap energy. On transfer payments between governments. On debt."

-Strong Towns

NO FLIPPIN' STRATEGY DOCUMENT REQUIRED:
How community activists
created community gardens
by taking over vacant land

-DIALOGUE4HEALTH

High Speed Rail-go-round

Amtrak Shifts Strategy From
Begging for Money to Thinking Big

-Bloomberg

Amtrak's $151B Price Tag
Hits a High Speed Bump

-Fiscal Times

Amtrak President Joe Boardman on the Rational Inevitability of High-Speed Rail

-Transportation Nation

The Uncertain Future of
the California Bullet Train

-Fox & Hounds

Future of rail on the agenda

-ctpost.com

Fast Trains: Upstate rail languishes
while politicians debate

-Syracuse Post-Standard

On board with HSR for Upstate NY

-Syracuse Post-Standard

Joliet Public Hearing on HSR

-Chicago Sun-Times

George F. Will
Joe Simitian and the high-speed train wreck

-Mercury News

Cindy Chavez and Roseanne Foust
Only 'declinists' oppose
California's high-speed rail

-Mercury News

John Horgan
There's a bit more pep in the Caltrain step

-Mercury News

Caltrain gets $3.2M grant for high-speed rail

-Silicon Valley Business Journal

Study Says High-Speed Rail
Will Be Good For Environment

-KPBS San Francisco

Bullet train vote:
Explanations from local supporters

-U-T San Diego

Shenzhen and Beijing
to be linked with nine-hour trains

-Shenzhen Post

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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