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Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 24, 2016 | No Comments

Memphis Transit to Purchase New Trolleys, Won’t Give System Start Date (Memphis Flyer)
Nashville Mayor: Paying For Transit Expansion Is the Hard Part (Tennessean)
Late-Night Vote Advances Tampa Bay’s Despised Highway Expansion Project (TBO)
Atlanta’s QT Gas Station Opens Urban Location – With No Gas (Curbed)
MARTA Meets With Feds to Talk Funding For BRT (WABE)
Conservative AJC Blogger Sells Toll Lanes as Transit Infrastructure
Community Rallies Behind Historic Downtown Atlanta Library (Saporta Report)

4 Ways Road Builders Game the Numbers to Justify Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 23, 2016 | No Comments

The people who make the case for highways often present themselves as unbiased technicians, simply providing evidence to an audience subject to irrational bias. Forecasts said motorists would make 21,000 trips per day on Greenville’s Southern Connector, a public-private toll road. In real life they made fewer than 9,000. Map via Toll Road News But traffic forecasting is not a neutral, dispassionate exercise. It [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 23, 2016 | No Comments

Neighborhoods Shocked Braves Game Days Will Make Traffic Worse (Reporter Newspapers)
Atlanta City Council Members Didn’t Mean to Okay Demolition of Historical Library (Creative Loafing)
MARTA, ARC, Cobb County All Awarded Georgia Transit Grants (Saporta Report)
This Week Is a Historic Week for Georgia Transit (AJC)
Gallatin May Be Poised for the First Transit Expansion Out of Nashville (Nashville Biz Journal)
Nashville Chamber Endorses Bold Transit Plan (Tennessean)
Capital MPO Report Expected to Call Baton Rouge Trolley a “Failure” (Business Report)
Is Raleigh Doing Enough for Affordable Housing? (Indy Week)

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Skywalkers, Luke or Otherwise, and the Problems They Cause for Cities

By Mary Newsom | Jun 22, 2016 | No Comments

People fill a plaza at the Mint Museum in Uptown Charlotte. In many cities overstreet skywalks are blamed for taking too many people off the sidewalks. Photo: John ChesserUptown Charlotte is not alone in having a series of overstreet walkways tha...

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 22, 2016 | No Comments

Atlanta City Council Approves MARTA Vote For November Ballot (AJC)
Georgia DOT Grant Recipients Will Be Announced Wednesday (AJC)
Should Charlotte Get Tougher on Affordable Housing? (Charlotte Observer)
Why Should You Visit Charlotte’s South End? No Need to Drive (Thrillist)
Rising Sea Levels Haven’t Deterred Miami Development (Scientific American)
Florida DOT Names SunRail Executive Director From Turnpike Enterprise (Orlando Biz Journal)
Nashville Business Leaders: $5.5 Billion Investment in Transit Over 25 Years Isn’t Enough (Nashville Biz Journal)

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Massive Highway Expansion Threatens to Destroy Tampa Neighborhoods

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 21, 2016 | No Comments

Grassroots advocates have picked up key political support in their campaign against Florida DOT’s $6 billion plan to widen 90 miles of highways around Tampa. Photo: Sunshine Citizens Most people still think of Tampa as a sprawling, car-centric town, but that is starting to change. In 2014, Smart Growth America [PDF] found that Tampa is shifting toward a more walkable [...]

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The Long, Long Path for One Charlotte Greenway

By PlanCharlotte.org | Jun 21, 2016 | No Comments

Beset by funding gaps, a recession and other delays, the second phase of the Toby Creek Greenway near UNC Charlotte is finally underway 18 years after the first plans were drawn.

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About That Greener-Looking Grass in S.C. Roads Program

By Mary Newsom | Jun 21, 2016 | No Comments

In Charlotte, a lot of local officials in the transportation world have cast envious eyes over the state line into South Carolina, where counties can enact sales taxes specifically for road projects. (No, I don't know whether, for this program, "transp...

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 21, 2016 | No Comments

Businesses, Nonprofits, Team Up to Oppose Road Expansion Plan (Tampa Bay Biz Journal)
Pinellas County Rolls Out Para-Transit Program For Unlimited Uber Rides (City Lab)
All Aboard Florida Opponents Lose Steam (Sunshine State News)
Beckham Soccer Stadium May Have All Aboard Funding Ties (Miami Herald)
SunRail Runs Special Weekend Service for Orlando Vigil (Orlando Sentinel)
Secretary Foxx Visits Raleigh, Promotes Transit Tax (News & Observer)
Knoxville Traffic Light Study Should Include Bus Rapid Transit (News Sentinel)

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Take a Look at Tampa’s First Protected Bike lane

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 20, 2016 | No Comments

Tampa is starting to make progress on safe bike infrastructure. Last weekend, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn led a celebratory ride to mark the opening of the city’s first protected bike lane — a curb-protected two-way lane on Cass Street downtown. The Cass Street project is one of the first protected bike lanes in Florida — a notoriously dangerous state [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 20, 2016 | No Comments

Atlanta City Council Votes Monday on MARTA Sales Tax (Saporta Report)
One Minute Delay Caused By Ashley Bridge Bike Lane Deemed Too Inconvenient (Post & Courier)
Transit Investment Key to Chapel Hill Success (News & Observer)
Memphis Woman Who Hit Pedestrian Has Seven Previous DUIs (East Tennessee Times)
Georgia DOT Partners to Develop Sustainable Highway Corridor (ATL Biz Chronicle)
Atlanta Bicycle Coalition Proposes New Midtown Bike Lanes (Curbed)
Shocker: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Over Budget (ATL Biz Chronicle)

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What Gun Violence and Traffic Violence Have in Common

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 17, 2016 | No Comments

Traffic deaths and gun deaths in the U.S. Graph: Violence Policy Center via Transport Providence The horrific mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando has prompted some soul-searching about America’s ability to take significant steps to curb gun violence. Congress did nothing to control guns after dozens of young kids were massacred at Sandy Hook. Will the [...]

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