Today’s Headlines

Korea eyes $45 billion high-speed rail contract in California visit (Korea Times)

One Ohio town with a walkable arts district fears the stimulus will be its undoing (AP)

U.S. DOT ponders a tweak to help "cash for clunkers" participants buy out-of-stock cars (WSJ)

The challenge of transporting the disabled is daunting for many towns (Governing)

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Talking Headways: Urbanism in the Style of Gangnam

By Jeff Wood | Feb 9, 2015

Guest host Randy Simes, owner of UrbanCincy.com and headlines writer for Streetsblog Ohio, joins me from South Korea to give his thoughts on his current home in the Gangnam district of Seoul and his previous one in Atlanta. We cover Keith Parker’s turnaround of Atlanta’s transit agency MARTA, the Belt Line and the people who won’t […]

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By Angie Schmitt | Jan 14, 2011

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By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 22, 2013

Chuck Marohn cofounded the non-profit Strong Towns in 2009. Since then he has steadily built an audience for his message about the financial folly of car-centric planning and growth. The suburban development pattern that has prevailed since the end of World War II has resulted in what Marohn calls “the growth Ponzi scheme” — a system that […]

Transit-Oriented Development: Beyond the Big City

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 23, 2009

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El Paso Congressman Holds Town Hall Meetings on the Bus

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 30, 2013

Congressman Beto O’Rourke takes constituent outreach seriously. Not satisfied that he was reaching a broad enough segment of his El Paso constituents with traditional town-hall meetings, the freshman Democrat has taken up an unorthodox approach: holding discussions on local buses. Americans for Transit’s Rider’s Blog caught up with O’Rourke recently and asked him to explain: […]

German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2007

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