PenTrans Update Aug. 9th, 2013 - Why Your City Might Be the Next Detroit

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Beverly Harper

Portfolio Associates, Inc.

Thomas J. Spearing, III.

Hill International, Inc.

Secretary-Treasurer

Tom Halterman

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Mark Alisesky
Michael Baker Corp.

Edward M. D'Alba

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Richard Amodei

STV, 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

Kate O'Connor
Jacobs

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

August 9th, 2013

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Pennsylvania

ARTBA: Pennsylvania Transportation Cut
Would Jeopardize Nearly 10,000 Local Jobs
-ForConstructionPros.com

Agency to add $20
to truck tolls in Pennsylvania
-Land Line Magazine

Failing Pennsylvania bridges
demand legislative action
-Chesco Daily Local News

Officials: More funding needed for
transportation needs in Montgomery County, southeastern Pennsylvania
-Montco Colonial News

Pa. risks bridges falling into trouble waters
-Delco Daily Times

Truckers say Pa.'s roads
are actually in pretty good shape
-Harrisburg Patriot News

SEPTA deal to extend R-3 to Wawa delayed
-Delco Daily Times

Conklin, Casey speak in favor of
Pennsylvania transportation funding
-Centre Daily Times

State Rep. Kate Harper supports
transportation bill that would
fund Pennsylvania's infrastructure needs
-Montco Times Herald

Turnpike commission to get report card
-Luzerne Co. Citizen's Voice

How Much Will Turnpike Tolls Go Up?
-Bensalem Patch

Robbing Peter to pay Paul:
A tale of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission
-Beaver Co. Timesonline

At last, breaking ground on
the Pa. Turnpike to I-95 interchange
-newsworks

E-Z Pass taking toll on turnpike collectors
-The Meadville Tribune

Could Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
soon be abolished?
-Land Line Magazine

Blue Route shoulders
might provide rush-hour lanes
-Philadelphia Inquirer

Port Authority phasing out paper tickets,
fighting counterfeit passes
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SEPTA deal to extend R-3 to Wawa delayed
-Delco Daily Times

No funding for King of Prussia HSR
-Philadelphia Inquirer

SEPTA delays smartcard fare system field trial
-newsworks.org

Design review committee
grapples with above-ground parking issues
-PlanPhilly

All-electric paratransit buses at BARTA
-AMP press release

New Jersey

Public is invited to the
Raritan Valley Rail Coalition's August meeting
-Messenger Gazette

Editorial
Ending the jitney menace
-Newark Star-Ledger

Nation & World

Budget truce seems out of reach
as congressional recess looms
-Washington Post

To Toll or Not: Could the Feds
Lift a Ban on Interstate Tolling?
-Governing

A Pedestrian Is Killed
in a Traffic Crash in the U.S. Every 2 Hours
-The Atlantic Cities

Todd Litman, Executive Director,
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Rational Fear
-Planetizen

In Vancouver,
Traffic Decreases as Population Rises
-DC. Streetsblog.org

As Americans Drive Less,
What Does That Mean For Cities?
-Here and Now

Have the suburbs hit a dead end?
-Washington Post

Suburban Sprawl to Power Cities of the Future
-Science Daily

Developers, smart growth experts
outline changes to federal
real estate policy in online event
-Smart Growth America

Sustainability consortium
seeks public response on
alternatives to sprawl in Northeast Ohio
-Cleveland Plain Dealer

Peter Katz
Why Your City Might Be the Next Detroit
-Citiwire

Maryland's first public private partnership
Private firm sought for Purple Line
-Baltimore Sun

The Rise of The North American
Protected Bike Lane
-Momentum Mag

MTA Sells Storm Bond
-Wall Street Journal

High Tech

Do bridges dream of electric concrete?
-Txchnologist

High Speed Rail-go-round

Lawyers Try to Shut Down
High-speed Rail Project
-Hispanic Business

Bill would ease land use for high-speed rail
-The Sacramento Bee

This Is How Elon Musk
Can Build the Hyperloop
for a Tenth the Cost of High-Speed Rail
-Motherboard

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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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