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Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jul 6, 2016 | No Comments

Nashville Music Exec Killed While Riding Bike; Cops: No Evidence Victim “Hit Anything” (Tennessean)
Tennessee to Use CMAQ Funds for Roadside Assistance and Crash Cleanup (Chattanoogan)
Muscle Shoals City Council Applies for DOT Grant for Paratransit Service (Times Daily)
Natchez Mayor, Council Want Trip Scheduling App, Card Payments (The Democrat)
Virginia Wins Federal Grant for Freight and Passenger Rail, Highway Expansion (Times-Dispatch)

Park & Rides Lose Money and Waste Land, But Agencies Keep Building Them

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 5, 2016 | No Comments

Transit agencies shell out big bucks to build and operate parking facilities. But how much do we really know about what they get for their money? The surface parking lot at WMATA’s Branch Avenue station. Photo: TRB Researchers Lisa Jacobson and Rachel Weinberger surveyed 37 American transit agencies about park-and-ride facilities. They found that despite the expense of [...]

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By Ashley Robbins | Jul 5, 2016 | No Comments

Tennessean Columnist: There Is More Than One Way to Deal With Overloaded Nashville Roads
Jacksonville Transit Looks to Provide Accessible Vehicles for Public and Private Use (Florida Politics)
Is the Atlanta Streetcar Past Its Troubles? (Curbed)
Developer Needs Millions in Public Funds for Doraville Project (AJC)
RTA Preserves Bus Routes on New NOLA Streetcar Route, Restores Service on Two Lines (Advocate)

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Revisiting Raleigh’s Gateway Center

By Leo Suarez | Jul 1, 2016 | No Comments

The end of Kindley Street, June 2016. Click for a larger, wider view of the site. I wanted to turn our attention today to what is being called downtown’s Gateway Center. The Downtown Plan calls out the area around the Performing Arts Center and the Raleigh Convention Center as a possible “catalytic project area” and […]

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By Ashley Robbins | Jul 1, 2016 | No Comments

Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida Haven’t Learned When to Quit (Sunshine)
All Aboard Florida Has Already Spent $787 Million on Project (TCPalm)
Isle de Jean Charles Residents Will Be First Climate Refugees in America (Smithsonian)
New Study Finds Man-Made Structures Destroying Louisiana’s Wetlands (Science Daily)
Indy Week Asks: Are Anti-Rail Republicans Right About Durham-Orange Light Rail?
North Carolina Republicans Change Half Million Light Rail Budget Restriction to 10% (News & Observer)
Cobb County Outlaws Private Parking at Braves Stadium (AJC)
Maria Saporta Remembers the Last Iconic Library the City of Atlanta Tore Down
GDOT Removes Threat to Shut Down Atlanta Streetcar (AJC)

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Talking With Owen Furuseth: Farm Preservation, Neighborhood Changes, and Immigration

By Mary Newsom | Jun 29, 2016 | No Comments

Podcast: Owen Furuseth, retiring July 1 as UNC Charlotte associate provost for Metropolitan Studies, has researched open space preservation, neighborhood demographics and Charlotte immigration patterns. PlanCharlotte talks with Furuseth about his work.

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MARTA Sales Tax ‘Menu’ Overstates the Transit It Will Fund

By Ken Edelstein | Jun 28, 2016 | No Comments

Atlanta City Council last week approved a half-penny transit sales tax for the Nov. 8 ballot. But it’s still unclear what projects that tax would fund. State legislation making the tax vote possible requires MARTA to come up by the end of July with “a final list of new rapid […] Source

“Opportunity Score” Shows Best Places to Find a Job Without Owning a Car

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2016 | No Comments

The 30-minute transit shed near the author’s house, overlaid with a heatmap of jobs paying $40,000 or more. Image: Redfin/Opportunity Score Which places put economic opportunity within reach for residents who don’t own cars? There’s a new tool to evaluate housing locations according to the accessibility of jobs via transit and walking. Redfin, the company that runs Walk Score, today released “Opportunity Score,” [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 28, 2016 | No Comments

I-77 and TBX Toll Roads Are U.S. PIRG’s Poster Projects For Highway Boondoggles
Could Nashville Relocate Radnor Rail Yard to Free Tracks For Transit? (WPLN)
While Nashville Talks Transit, Brentwood Commission Votes Down Commuter Bus Stop (Tennessean)
Atlanta Turns in Streetcar Plan Ahead of Deadline (AJC)
ARC Plans New Bus Stops That Integrate All Regional Systems (Gwinnett Daily-Post)
Virginia Governor Appoints Keith Parker to VCU Board (Progress-Index)

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Lloyd Farm: What Happens When You Let a Grocery Store Chain Do Urban Design

By Patrick McDonough | Jun 27, 2016 | No Comments

After several years of hearing suggestions for improvements from adjacent neighborhoods, elected officials, advisory boards and citizens from all over Carrboro, the folks at Argus Development have submitted plans for what they have always wanted to build here – a grocery-anchored strip mall. I first wrote about this project in 2014, nearly 18 months ago, and have talked to many Carrboro residents about it since. Very, very little about the proposal has changed and its chief flaws dating back to 2014 remain mostly unaddressed. If I was a member of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, I would vote to deny this rezoning application. The most recent site plan attached to Tuesday’s packet is below. If you look at the link above to my prior post, you’ll see little has changed in 18 months. I’m going to list several shortcomings ahead of the image below. The overall design of the site is simply too ...

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 27, 2016 | No Comments

The I-77 Toll Lanes Are Bad, But Not for the Reasons Mark Washburn Thinks (Charlotte Observer)
MARTA Rolls Out New Smart Phone App For Fare Payment (AJC)
AJC Traffic Guy: Traffic at New Braves Stadium May Be an Issue
Will Luring the Braves to Cobb County Be a Political Liability? (AJC)
Eastwood Is the Most Poorly Planned Neighborhood in Orlando (Orlando Weekly)
Motorist/Cyclist Tensions on Florida Gulf Coast (NWF Daily News)
Florida Man Swerves io Miss Animal, Kills Pedestrian (WTXL)

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6 Principles to Make Self-Driving Cars Work for Cities, Not Against Them

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 24, 2016 | No Comments

Self-driving cars are coming, and maybe sooner than we think. But the question of how they will shape cities is still wide open. Could they lead to less traffic and parking as people stop owning cars and start sharing them? More sprawl as car travel becomes less of a hassle? More freedom to walk and bike [...]

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