PenTrans Update June 24th, 2013 - Transpo funding: House GOP walks to different drummer

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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

Peter Denitz

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Jason Duckworth

Arcadia Land Company

Dan Faust

AECOM

Yassmin Gramian
HNTB

Alex Houseal
URS

Eli Khoury
HDR

Adam Krom

Amtrak

Carol Rose

WTS

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

June 24th, 2013

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Pennsylvania

Pa. GOP to propose
another transportation-funding plan
-Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania needs transportation funding now
-Lock Haven Express

PennDOT's project wish-list
could funnel $750m-plus into
region's roads and bridges
-Harrisburg Patriot-News

Pa. Turnpike scandal:
Former CEO Joe Brimmeier
was a master political operative
-Harrisburg Patriot-News

Pa. Turnpike scandal:
What to watch for in
this week's preliminary hearings
-Harrisburg Patriot-News

Pennsylvania Auditor Blasts Toll Road Law
-York Dispatch

Turnpike CEO:
If we have to keep paying
PennDOT, road will suffer
-Harrisburg Patriot-News

New Jersey Bridges are Dangerous
But Don't Drive in Pennsylvania
-newjerseynewsroom.com

SEPTA fare increase
to go into effect on July 1
-Daily Pennsylvanian

SEPTA to close Bridgeport Viaduct for repairs
-RT&S

Monthly discount suggested
for DRPA bridges
-Philadelphia Inquirer

The 13 Worst Commutes in Philadelphia
-The Philly Post

Regional leaders name
nine key targets for
infrastructure priorities
-Axis Philly

New Jersey

Senate OKs bills seeking
new revenue from state highways
-Bergen Record

Secaucus Loop idea revived,
tied to Gateway Tunnel
-Railway Age

Many New Jersey Bridges Are Crumbling
-New Jersey 101.5

NJ Transit retools storm strategy,
shifts rail stock to safer storage
-Bergen Record

Nation & World

Sean Nolon, Ona Ferguson, Patrick Field
Land in Conflict:
How Planners Can Better Manage
an Increasingly Contentious Public Process
-Planetizen

Amtrak: Subsidy cuts would jeopardize service
-ABC 7 Washington DC

House Appropriations Subcommittee
Approves Transportation Appropriations Bill
-APTA

Iowa Gov. Branstad:
Alternatives needed to gas tax increase
-Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Study Says Renewables
Could Meet New York's Energy Needs
-Civil Engineering

The Fix We're In For: The State of Our Bridges
-Transportation for America

Why America's Bridges
Are in Such Dangerously Bad Shape
-Atlantic Cities

Power to the People
in the Place de la République
-The Guardian

Stockholm - model of
congestion pricing, transit access
-Vancouver Metro

New Tech

Is Fungus
the Green Building Material of the Future?

-source

Old Tech Revived

Ancient Roman Concrete
Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture
-Bloomberg Businessweek

High Speed Rail-go-round

Stephen Lange Ranzini
Are Higher Speed Trains
Between Chicago & Detroit
Economically Feasible?
-AnnArbor.com

The Economic Impacts of High Speed Rail: Transforming the Midwest
-Midwest HSR Assoc.

House appropriations subcommittee
approves bill that would cut funding
for transit, Amtrak and high-speed rail
-Progressive Railroading

Rail plans moving faster this year
-Texas Community Impact

California Rep. Jeff Denham:
Hamlet on the House rail panel
-Miami Herald

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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
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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