Jenny Robinson, Mid-Atlantic AAA
"Road Safety and Speed Cameras"

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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.

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

Jeff Hans
HDR

Elizabeth Hansmann
Jacobs

Alex Houseal
URS

Adam Krom

Amtrak

Carol Rose

WTS

Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Richard P. Voith

Econsult Solutions, Inc.

Emille L. Williams
COMTO

Executive Director

Peter Javsicas

PenTrans Member Organizations

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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 21st, 2014

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Pennsylvania

Commonwealth To Begin Accepting
Applications for Multimodal
Transportation Fund
-YourErie.com

Pennsylvania will have private
companies rebuild and maintain
more than 500 bridges
-Harrisburg Patriot-News

SEPTA takes lead in building
new Ardmore Train Station
-Mainlinemedianews

DRPA elects Pennsylvania
lieutenant governor as chairman
-South Jersey Times

Full steam ahead: West Chester
forms rail service committee
-West Chester Daily Local News

Fitch Rates Pennsylvania Turnpike
2014A Rev Bonds 'A+'; Affirms
Outstanding Bonds
-BusinessWire

First Wave of PennDOT
Fee Increases About to Land
-NBC 10

Strong rail demand spurs
$4.2M for 6 Western Pa. upgrade projects
-Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Supreme Court ruling won't
jeopardize public rail-trails
in Lancaster County, officials say
-LancasterOnline

Public Meeting Announced
for the Erie Rail Terminal Project
-YourErie.com

Philadelphia Seeing Rail Travel
As Hook For Its Tourism Business
-CBS Philly

VIDEO: Shawmont Station
could see new 'lease' on life
-Roxborough Review>News

Beth Artman, Bill Jones
Commuters' opinions of Central Pa.
transit are improving: PennLive letters
-Harrisburg Patriot-News

New Jersey

Sen. Ray Lesniak says he'll

4-cent hike in NJ's gas tax

-Newark Star-Ledger

Editorial

Gas-tax increase / You'd rather borrow?

-pressofAtlanticCity

Larry Higgs

No gas tax increase? Then

how do we fund road and bridge projects?

-Asbury Park Press

Group wants to put the Bergen

in Hudson-Bergen Light Rail

-Newark Star-Ledger

Mike Frassinelli

The General: Jim Simpson

is the most powerful person

in NJ transportation

-Newark Star-Ledger

Superior Court Rules Against

"Save the Dinky" Appeal

-Princeton Town Topics

John Cichowski

Road Warrior: Verdict out

on value of cameras on traffic lights

-Bergen Record

Together North Jersey holds

safe streets meeting in Paterson

-Paterson Press

Mark J. Magyar

Profile: The Policy Wonk

Who Shaped New Jersey's Transit System

-NJSpotlight

Nation & World

David King, Michael Manville,
Michael Smart
Use of public transit isn't surging
-Washington Post

Eric Sundquist
U.S. DOT highway travel demand
estimates continue to overshoot reality
-SSI

SMART Transportation Division survey
cites heavy opposition to heavier trucks
-Progressive Railroading

Frank Wilner
Highway homicide affects railroads, too
-Railway Age

Cities Consider Taxing Commuters
to Drive Up Revenue
-Governing

Eric Jaffe
The Plan That Could Finally Free
New York City From Traffic Congestion
-The Atlantic Cities

Mayor Bloomberg Says Free Mass Transit
In The Public's Best Interest
-NY 1

Free SEPTA?
-Nathaniel Popkin

Liz Farmer
Fund cities and their suburbs
as large metro areas
-Governing

Richie Piiparinan
The Persistence of Failed History:
"White Infill" as the New "White Flight"?
-newgeography

John Upton
Paris bans cars, makes transit
free to fight air pollution
-Grit

Despite Bold Budget from Obama,
Future for Rail Remains Uncertain
-Northeast Alliance for Rail

Dina Gerdeman
How Should We Tackle America's
Transportation and Infrastructure Woes?
-Forbes

Video: Amtrak Has Big Plans
For Northeast Corridor Service
-CBS New York

Amtrak asks Congress to
use Northeast Corridor
profits for corridor improvements
-Progressive Railroading

Ottawa's light-rail project
honored for public-private financing
-Progressive Railroading

Bill McKibben
Curitiba: A Global Model For Development
-Common Dreams

China plans investment and reform
to ease urbanization drive
-Reuters

Complete Streets News - March 2014
-Smart Growth America

High Speed Rail-Go-Round

High-speed rail agency's legal fight
'arrogant,' Kings County says
-Fresno Bee

High speed rail board gets court's
OK to seize eight more properties
-Manteca Bulletin

Proposed high speed rail between
Norfolk and Washington D.C.
may include Peninsula link
-Hampton Roads Daily Press

Columbus welcoming feedback
on high speed rail project
-WRBL News 3

Proposed Phoenix-Tucson
high-speed rail routes up for public input
-Arizona Capital Times

Calmly Guiding a high-speed train from
Paris to Lille at 300 kilometres per hour
-straight.com

Now Freight Forwarders
Want High Speed Rail
-Handy Shipping Guide

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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
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   - Malady & Wooten

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