November 8, 2012
Illinois MPO Advisory Council
Transportation News Brief
Illinois Transportation Websites
ILLINOIS NEWS
As
Addams rebuilding
looms, Pace preparing new bus routes for it (Chicago Tribune)
City Okays
Crossing Agreement
(eMissourian)
Communities to upgrade
traffic signs
(State Journal Register)
Development effort
creates website to deliver message (Peoria Journal Star)
Fishing seen as way to limit
Asian carp invasion
(State Journal Register)
Get an Update on Plainfield's
Comprehensive Transportation Plan
Nov. 14 (Plainfield Patch)
GIS Day 2012 &
Geography Awareness Week
(McLean County Regional Planning Commission)
Governor Quinn
Deploys More Illinois Responders to Assist New York in Hurricane Sandy Response (eNews Park Forest)
Ludlow Village Board adopts
tax levy ordinance
(Rantoul Press)
Hurricane Sandy prompts IDOT to permit
heavy loads on state roads
(KCVS12)
Some question site for proposed
UI solar farm
(News Gazette)
SPOTLIGHT:
Latinos in McLean Co
. highlighted (The Pantagraph)
NATIONAL NEWS
8 Experts on
Urban Planning for Sustainable Cities
- with video interviews (Sustainable Communities Collective)
City council to decide on
transit MPO
(Albany Democrat Herald)
Climate policy
advances in the states, but slowly
(Washington Post)
Development of
transit villages
raises questions about air quality (California Health Report)
Distracted driving enforcement pilot
begins in Delaware (USDOT Fast Lane Blog)
Mixed Bag for Closely-Watched
Local Transit Races
(DC Streets Blog)
The
next superstorm
: Sea walls? Yes. But traffic and telecom walls, too.
(Crains New York)
Sandy's
Infrastructure Legacy
(National Journal)
Talks begin to create Grand Island's
Metropolitan Planning Organizations
(The Independent)
Thinking the Big Thoughts about
Transportation Planning
(Bacon's Rebellion)
U.S. Roads and Bridges
Are Getting Smarter (Government Technology)
Why
transportation planning
is like an Italian meal (The Coloradan)
Marta Perales
MPO Statewide Coordinator
Illinois MPO Advisory Council
233 S Wacker Suite 800
Chicago Illinois 60606
Email: marta@ilmpo.org
