PenTrans Update August 29th, 2012 - Sustainability Science

PenTrans Annual Meeting, 6.14.12

PenTrans Board members Rich Amodei,

STV, and Bev Harper, Portfolio Associates

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.

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.
TranSystems
Urban Engineers, Inc.
URS Corp.
WTS

PenTrans Update

August 29th, 2012

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Pennsylvania

Pa. Turnpike $7 billion in the red

-Philadelphia Inquirer

$40 million
in Pa. transit funding delivered

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial
Corbett should shift gears
on roads and transit funding

-Philadelphia Inquirer

Road work: Only Corbett's green light
can fix transportation

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Andrew Dalzell op-ed
Philadelphia transit basics still need work

-Philadelphia Inquirer

Intermodal rail facility eyed in Hazleton

-The Scranton Times-Tribune

Lower Northeast District Plan

-Philadelphia 2035

New Jersey

A $650 Million Expansion of
Port Newark Spurs Interest in Its Environs

-New York Times

"We Are Listening " Forum
NJ Transit will listen to you

-Asbury Park Press

NJ Transit To Get $10 Million Boost

-New Jersey 101.5

NJDOT Grants Some I-80
Rehab Requests, Nixes Others

-ParsippanyPatch

Train Station To Arrive At Last At
Somerset Development's Wesmont Station

-GlobeSt.com

Dense, mixed-use development,
investment and job creation anticipated
Dunellen is a Transit Village

-Asbury Park Press

Separating form from function -- and
adding a third political party -- help
Hammonton transform its townscape
Snapshots of New Jersey: Hammonton -- Transparency and Community Engagement

-NJ Spotlight

Nation & World

Mica: 'I'm going to go after Amtrak'

-Politico

WATCH NOW! MAP-21
Public Webcast A Legislative Overview

-FTA

Map-21 Resources

-NTOC

FRA proposes state rail plan guidance,
roadway worker protection rulemaking

-Progressive Railroading

The State of Infrastructure 2012

-GlobeSt.com

Erika D. Smith
Mass transit backers
need momentum on their side

-INDYSTAR.com

New York MTA's Payroll Tax
Rejected in Blow to Agency

-Bloomberg

Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America:
How Smaller Cities and Rural Places Are Using
Transit and Mobility Investments to Strengthen
Their Economies and Communities

-Reconnecting America

John Laird
Transit: to build or not to build

-Clark Co., WA Columbian

LaHood, touring MotivePower,
backs Boise streetcar

-Railway Age

Clearwater, Fla., backs LRT development

-Railway Age

Poll: Majority of New Yorkers
say bikelanes are a good idea

-timesunion.com

Sustainability Science:
a New Paradigm for Planning?

-Planetizen

High Speed Rail-go-round

Connecticut Officials balk
at Amtrak's vision for high-speed rail

-Norwalk Daily Tribune

Bartlett's vision of high speed rail
is right for Danbury

-Danbury newstimes.com

Neena Satija
Will the future of rail travel
include Metro-North?

-CT Mirror

Angela Cotey
Amtrak's new strategic plan
will help railroad become more
efficient, customer focused, execs believe

-Progressive Railroading

DON'T WORRY, DRIVE ON:

Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies

-Post Carbon Institute

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Check our ARCHIVE

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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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