PenTrans Update Jan. 22, 2013 - Business, Labor Call for Metro Area Transpo Funding

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PenTrans Legislative Breakfast

Transportation Funding:

The New Picture

Presenters include

Robert Latham, CAE,

Executive Vice President
Associated Pennsylvania Constructors

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013

7:30 - 10:30

Hilton Harrsiburg

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Bridge on rails

PenTrans Annual

Sustaining Members - Gold

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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

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

Jan. 22nd, 2013

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Pennsylvania

Op-ed By Rob Wonderling, Ryan Boyer,
Pat Gillespie and Patrick J. Eiding
State metro centers deserve
special transportation funding

-Harrisburg Patriot-News

SEPTA to shrink without additional funding

-PlanPhilly

Governor Corbett Announces PennDOT's

Cost Savings, Modernization Progress

-PR Newswire

Farmers express discontent with

transportation system in Pennsylvania

-Farm and Dairy

Survey: Pennsylvanians Want

Better Roads, Don't Want to Pay for Them

-WarminsterPatch

Shuster names Reps. Lou Barletta (R-PA)
and Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
to Transportation Subcommittee

Amtrak moving forward
with more Lancaster Station upgrades

-Fox43 Lancaster

Study stresses positive impacts
of Rockwood train station

-Somerset Co. Daily American

Neal Peirce

Lit-Up Philadelphia: American City Model?

-citiwire.net

New Jersey

Assembly panel backs fund
to pay for transit projects

-Asbury Park Press

NJ Transit eyes Linden for
train storage during next major storm

-nj.com

Nation & World

U.S. Chamber Chief Calls for Higher Gas Tax

-Governing

State watchdogs approve
$3.14B Tappan Zee Bridge contract

-lohud.com

DC Metro Silver Line extension
87 percent complete

-The Hill

U.S. losing ground
in global marketplace, report finds

-Washington Post

Averting Climate Change
May Cost World $700 Billion a Year

-Bloomberg

Bill McKibben
The End is Near, Part II: leveraging
imminent doom as 'Grand Strategy'

-PlaceMakers

Bruce Katz
Innovations To Watch

-Brookings Institution

Bikes and Buses Propel Mexico City
to Prize in Sustainable Transport

-National Geographic

'This Is Set In Stone:'
At Plaza Ribbon Cutting, Sadik-Khan
Says Street Changes Will Continue
After She's Gone

-New York Observer

Susan Elkin
Only 25 per cent of children
walk to school alone compared to
86 per cent in 1971. What went wrong?

-The Independent

The disturbing and sometimes
tragic challenge of walking in America

-Switchboard

Scott Le Vine
Hold off on Zipcar's Eulogy:
Planners are Key to Carsharing's Next Act

-Planetizen

Why 3D Modeling Will Play a Huge Role
in Tackling Rapid Urbanization

-Atlantic Cities

An App That Uses Frustrated Riders
Phones To Tell You That The Bus Will Be Late

-Co.Exist

Are Cars 'Going Out of Style' in Europe?

-Wall St. Journal

High Speed Rail-go-round

AMTRAK and California's High-Speed Rail
Authority jointly seeking HSR train sets

-examiner.com

Ca. State engineers
question high-speed rail oversight

-San Francisco Chronicle

World Bank Group : Evaluation of High-Speed Rail Program Should Consider Wider Economic Benefits

-4-traders

Study looks at high-speed rail link
through Willamette Valley

-KATU.com

Amsterdam-Brussels high-speed rail link is halted

-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

High-speed rail prelim study completed,
South Africa secures Japan commitment

-Engineering 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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