Today’s Headlines

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  • Tennessee Lawmakers Use Bike Helmet Bill to Bust Teachers Union (Knoxville News Sentinel)
  • Amtrak, Local Officials to Tour Potential NOLA-to-Orlando Route (Advocate)
  • Siemens Completes First Brightline Coach Car Shell (Railway Age)
  • OpEd: Forget That Atlanta Drives State Economy, Don’t Give Them All the Road Money (Savannah Now)
  • Marietta Sells Its Soul to Yet Another Professional Sports Team (MDJ)
  • BeltLine Asks For Donations to Keep the Lights On (Saporta)
  • South Carolina Wants $1.2 Billion for Transportation, Settles for $400 Million (The State)

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How Not to Handle Edge Conditions: The Case of the Nucleus Parking Garage

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Earlier this month, we discussed a parking garage that was approved by the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee back in October 2014. The very officially named J.D. Nichols Campus for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Parking Garage Structure is currently under construction on the corner of Preston Street and Jefferson Street on the eastern edge of Downtown. The post How not to handle edge conditions: the case of the Nucleus parkinge garage appeared first on Broken Sidewalk.

Today’s Headlines

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  • Gwinnett County Wants $13 Million of Georgia’s $75 Million Transit Grants (Gwinnett Daily)
  • Gwinnett Chair Charlotte Nash Draws Challenger Who Favors MARTA Vote (Gwinnett Daily)
  • Tennessean: Nashville Should “Go Big on Transit”
  • Miami Looks to Make Flagler Street More Appealing to People (Real Deal)
  • How Much Money Have Florida Politicians Wasted on Opposition to Passenger Rail? (Palm Beach Post)
  • Wacky TCPalm Column Links Florida Train Travel With Alcoholism, or Something

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Today’s Headlines

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  • Charlotte MPO Approves I-77 Toll Lanes (Charlotte Observer)
  • Charlotte’s Cherry Neighborhood Struggles With Gentrification (Next City)
  • Curbed Lays Out Potential MARTA Expansion Scenarios
  • BeltLine Creator Ryan Gravel Joins Atlanta City Design Project (Intown Magazine)
  • Invest Atlanta Names New CEO After Last Was Asked to Resign (AJC)
  • Athens to Add Parking Meters to Boost Turnover on Downtown Streets (Banner-Herald)
  • Palm Beach MPO Hosts Bus/Ped/Bike Infrastructure Tour (Palm Beach Post)
  • Transit Chief Urges Nashville to Think Big (Tennessean)

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These 16 Multi-Family Housing Developments Are Reshaping Urban Living in Louisville

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Louisville is experiencing something of a residential boom as we enter 2016. Hundreds of new apartments are popping up in the city’s urban neighborhoods seemingly every week, from Germantown to Downtown and Clifton to Butchertown to Nulu, there’s no shortage of privately developed housing just wrapping up or just getting started. We rounded up 16 The post These 16 multi-family housing developments are reshaping urban living in Louisville appeared first on Broken Sidewalk.

Today’s Headlines

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  • Gwinnett Expected to Become Atlanta Region’s Most Populated County by 2040 (Gwinnett Daily)
  • Georgia Senator Proposes Legislation for MARTA Takeover of Streetcar Operations (WXIA)
  • Lawmaker: Autonomous Car Factories Could “Relieve Transit Pressures” in Tennessee (Leaf-Chronicle)
  • Guilford County Follows Charlotte, Raleigh Leads to Consider Commuter Rail (Rhino Times)
  • FDOT Weighing Value of Parking vs. Human Life in Jacksonville (Florida Times-Union)
  • 500+ Americans Will Be Injured With Motor Vehicles as You Read This Miami New Times Story

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Highway Boondoggles: Tampa Bay Express Lanes

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In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Streetsblog will be serializing the case studies in the report. Yesterday, we looked at Connecticut’s $11.5 billion I-95 widening. Today, we focus on a proposed $3.3 billion [...]

Today’s Headlines

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  • CAT Applies for Half of Georgia’s $75M Transit Budget (Savannah Now)
  • Savannah Residents Largely Opposed to Cycling Restrictions in Forsyth Park (Savannah Now)
  • Is the Atlanta Streetcar the Catalyst for Auburn Avenue Revitalization? (CNN)
  • Tennessee Lawmakers Want to Ban Cities From Using Inclusionary Zoning (Tennessean)
  • NOLA Adds Service Hours, Overnight Service to Bus and Streetcar Routes (Advocate)
  • “Tampa Bay Express” Named One of Nation’s Worst Highway Projects (Tampa Bay Times)
  • Redevelopment of I-94 Could Be Opportunity for Livability in Orlando (Next City)

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Today’s Headlines

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  • Georgia Is Betting That $10B in Road Spending Will Help Atlanta Traffic (AJC)
  • “Mixed-Use” Beltline Development Will Have Kroger, Offices, and 900 Parking Spots (What Now Atlanta)
  • Charlotte Light Rail Extension Is Under Construction (Observer)
  • Charlotte Hires ULI Planners to Make Suburban SouthPark More Walkable (Observer)
  • East Raleigh Residents: City Investment Should Consider Area History and Culture (News & Observer)
  • ULI: Charlotte Avenue Corridor Offers Unique Urban Design Opportunity (Tennessean)

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Study: Sharrows Don’t Make Streets Safer for Cycling

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Sharrows are the dregs of bike infrastructure — the scraps cities hand out when they can’t muster the will to implement exclusive space for bicycling. They may help with wayfinding, but do sharrows improve the safety of cycling at all? New research presented at the Transportation Review Board Annual Meeting suggests they don’t. Sharrows without traffic-calming won’t do [...]

Today’s Headlines

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  • Who Killed the Durham-Orange County Light Rail Project? (Indy Week)
  • TODs Move Forward Near Durham Transit Stations Despite Uncertainty (News & Observer)
  • MARTA Share of Proposed Sales Tax Is a Sticking Point in Fulton (AJC)
  • Georgia Sees Increase in Carpooling Even as Gas Prices Drop (Northside Neighbor)
  • DeKalb County Revamps Traffic Court and Decreases Fines (AJC)
  • Amtrak Study Finds Demand for NOLA-Jacksonville Service, Needs Funding (Lagniappe Weekly)
  • Tampa Grapples With a Future of Rising Sea Levels (WMNF)
  • Mississippi State Transit Begins New Route to Golden Triangle Airport (Reflector)

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