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Transpo Committee Adds Southern Locations to Field Hearing Schedule
The T&I Committee has fleshed out the schedule of its nationwide tour to solicit input on transportation issues. The tour is an opportunity for lawmakers to hear what communities around the country would like to see in a new transportation authorization bill.
February 3, 2011
Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No.
The first time Adolfo Hernandez went to the National Bike Summit, he got a sense of just how monochromatic the livability movement can be.
January 13, 2011
HUD Announces Winners of $100M in Sustainability Grants
Planners in 45 regions in 27 states have a little more to work with today in their efforts to shape sustainable growth.
October 14, 2010
Chicago Loses NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money
Looks like New York legislators aren't the only ones willing to pass up big money for transportation improvements if it means putting a fair price on private auto use.
January 9, 2009
Using Twitter to Catch a Train
The people over at CTA Tattler ("seen and heard on the Chicago Transit Authority"), as part of their tireless efforts to monitor the movements of the Chicago Transit Authority, have turned to the microblogging tool Twitter and created a Twitter feed with the user name ctatweet. It's a way for people using the city's transit system to post updates about train delays and breakdowns from their cell phones or PDAs.
October 16, 2008
Transit-Oriented America, Part 2: Three Cities
This is the second installment in a five-part rail travel series that began yesterday.
August 21, 2007
Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles
My wife and I were married last month in Brooklyn. For our honeymoon, we wanted to see as many great American cities as we could. In 19 days of travel, we visited Chicago, Seattle, Portland (Ore.), San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Orleans (and also stopped briefly in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia).
August 20, 2007
Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities
Neil Peirce of the American Prospect sums up sustainable practices in several American cities,
February 23, 2007