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Stimulus grant puts NYC’s Moynihan Station on the right track
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 12:03pmLast week, federal transportation secretary Ray LaHood announced $1.5 billion worth of grants to assist 51 pending transportation projects in 41 states and the District of Columbia. None will be
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Congress Still Can't Find Main Street: Op-Ed in Charlotte Observer
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 1:54pmShouldn't the new "Jobs for Main Streets" stimulus bill actually fund walkable, bikable transit-friendly main streets, rather than just auto-only highways?
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Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 11:59amAs most readers of CNU's site know only too well, the federal government has a history of subsidizing sprawl, wittingly or not.
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Freeway Loops or Street Networks?
Submitted by mbittner on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 3:19pmMary Newsom of the Charlotte Observer, writing on her blog "The Naked City", posted this thorough argument agai
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Smart Growth America: Twenty Ways to Spend the Stimulus
Submitted by Dillon Goodson on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 2:49pmSmart Growth America, an ally of CNU in the fight for creating a sustainable infrastructure, recently released a document outlining the twenty way
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Railway carriage charm: has high-speed rail’s moment arrived?
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 2:03pmWith very few exceptions, city-to-city travel in the US by rail is, if available at all, generally slow and inconvenient outside of the Northeast.
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Stimulate and Harness Neighborhood Value, Urban Sage David Lewis Advises Obama
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 12:10pmLike Jane Jacobs, David Lewis held to a resolute belief in the power of traditio
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Beyond the stimulus: whither communities in the next transportation bill?
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 9:45amI am immensely grateful to my colleagues at NRDC and in the broader smart growth movement for being on top of what's been going on in the stimulus negotiations, particularly with respect to transporta
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Obama: Days of sprawl 'are over'
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 2:59pmPresident Obama set the New Urbanist world ablaze with one sentence out of an hour-long town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Fla.:
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Kunstler's advice to Obama: Work with CNU to stimulate overlooked downtowns
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 12:33pmFresh off his appearance in the New Yorker as a guide to the future — he'd argue near future — dislocations of the post-peak-oil landscape, Jim
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