PenTrans Update March 11th, 2013 - Critiquing the "Urban Mobility Report"

Assessing the situation at

PenTrans Legislative Breakfast

Harrisburg, 02/12/13

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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

Denise Goren

Michael Baker, Jr. Inc.

Yassmin Gramian
HNTB

Adam Krom

Amtrak

Anna Lynn Smith

Richard P. Voith

Econsult Solutions, Inc.

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

March 11th, 2013

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Pennsylvania

Scarnati plans legislation
to overhaul Port Authority
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SEPTA Head Presses House
For Public-Transit Aid
-Philadelphia Public Record

Crumbling highway infrastructure
will take guts to fix
-Allentown Morning Call

Lackawanna County bridges
among worst in state
-Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice

Pennsylvania's transportation system
likened to a leaking roof
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Budget Hearings Wrap Up,
Corbett Under Fire
-NewtownPatch

'Smart' traffic project
nearly done in Washington County
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Nearby Amtrak stations face cuts
-Centre Daily Times

Amtrak, local transit and highways
safe from sequester cuts
-Skift

Pennsylvania resists financial rescue
for Amtrak's Pittsburgh-to-Harrisburg run
-Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Spotlight on the Central District:
Transportation Recommedations
-Philadelphia City Planning

New Jersey

To make it Super, Meadowlands train
needs longer platform, says NJ Transit
-Newark Star-Ledger

Legislation would permit companies
to sponsor NJ rest stops
-phillyBurbs.com

From bridges to light rail to bike lanes,
transportation projects are moving forward
-Hudson Reporter

Nation & World

APTA LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE
-Passenger Transport

FTA approves final environmental report
for Baltimore light-rail line
-Progressive Railroading

Todd Litman
Critiquing the "Urban Mobility Report"
-Planetizen

Census: New York, Maryland, and New Jersey
Have Most Long-Distance Commuters
-Transportation Nation

Thomas Suddes
Ohio Turnpike is once again
the nexus of money and politics
-Cleveland Plain Dealer

How Free Transit Works in the United States
-The Atlantic Cities

The Open Office: a drop-in centre
for neighbourhood planning
-The Guardian

Planning for People: Fifty Years and Counting
-Citiwire.net

Why do the 2013 candidates
treat congestion pricing like a third rail?
-Capital

Md. Gov. O'Malley unveils
transportation funding plan
-Greater Greater Washington

Report Round Up: Special Transit Edition
-Urban Land Institute

Construction That Focuses on Health of Residents
-NY Times

High Speed Rail-go-round

Amtrak, California, and FRA team up
for new HSR gear
-RailwayAge

Peninsula agency approves
'blended approach' plan for high-speed rail
-Palo Alto Daily News

Will trains derail the Keystone XL pipeline?
-Christian Science Monitor

A Mapped History of Taking a Train
Across the United States
-The Atlantic

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June 24-25, 2013
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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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