PenTrans Update Dec. 24, 2012 - Santa, Time is Right for a Carbon Tax

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From all of us at PenTrans

Susan Schruth and
Tom Spearing, Hill International

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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

Emille L. 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

Portfolio Associates, Inc.

T&M Associates

SEPTA

STV, Incorporated

Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.

TranSystems

Urban Engineers, Inc.

URS Corp.

WTS

PenTrans Update

Dec. 24th, 2012

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Pennsylvania

Democrats expect debate
on transportation funding

-AllentownMorning Call

Plotting a Course:
Corbett finally seems ready to
deal with transportation funding

-Pittsburgh CityPaper

Split Between Corbett and
House GOP on Transit Funding

-Keystone Politics

Philadelphia transit
also hobbled by money woes

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

VMT: A fairer, smarter way
to pay for transportation

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

All eyes on Bill Shuster,
new transportation chairman

-Politico

Mayor Nutter Formally Creates
Office of New Urban Mechanics

-Government Technology

New Jersey

Advocacy group calls on NJ Transit
to provide direct trains from
Raritan Valley to NYC

-Newark Star-Ledger

"Different World" Could Cost
River Edge Transit Village Project

-RiverDellPatch

Nation & World

Industry poll: Majority of Americans
want more infrastructure funding

-The Hill

Bill McKibben, Lawrence Hanley
Think About the Transportation Sector

-Huffington Post

One Dollar Invested in Transportation
Can Return Up to Eight Dollars

-Transportation Issues Daily

Use of public transportation jumps

-LA Times

The Uselessness of
Economic Development Incentives

-Atlantic Cities

Charles Komanoff
The Time Has Never Been
More Right for a Carbon Tax

-US News & World Report

Where is America growing?
The answer may surprise you.

-Smart Growth America

Breaking: Sprawl Just as Reliant on
"Big Government" as Smart Growth

-DC.Streetsblog

Urban Legend: Can City Planning
Shed Its Pseudoscientific Stigma?

-Scientific American

How Our Current Tax System Is Failing Cities

-Atlantic Cities

Sam Staley vs. Todd Litman
You Pay the Toll. Where Should That Money Go?

-NY Times

New York Times Undercuts its Call for
Transportation Stimulus Investment

-Transportation Issues Daily

Toll Roads: Build It And They May Not Come

-LA Times

Here They Are: The Best and Worst
American Transportation Projects

-DC.Streetsblog

2012's Biggest Transportation Successes

-Atlantic Cities

Finally Getting Serious About Measuring
How Much People Walk and Bike

-DC.Streetsblog

Solving Traffic Jams with Road Pricing

-Atlantic Cities

Planning Complete Streets
for an Aging America

-AARP

Active Living for All Ages
Creating Neighborhoods Around Transit

-AARP

High Speed Rail-go-round

China successfully conducts
test run of high-speed train

-Times of India

Amtrak's Next-Generation Train Service,
One Step Closer

-Wall St. Journal

Sumitomo lands Midwest/Calif. HrSR order

-Railway Age

All Aboard Florida pegs investment
at $1.5 billion, up from $1 billion

-South Florida Business Journal

High-speed trains to help address
transport problems

-Russia & India Report

China claims high-speed train record

-euronews

China's longest high-speed railway
'to open Dec. 26'

-France24

Mexico Unveils Plans for
High-Speed Train in Yucatan

-Hispanically Speaking news

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PenTrans Advisory Group

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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