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Hartford, New Haven Contemplate Freeway Teardown
Submitted by norabeck on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 4:19pmNorman Garrick, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Transportation and Urban Planning at the University of Connecticut, and CNU Board member poste
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More sprinklers, narrower streets?
Submitted by Jon Davis on Sat, 04/12/2008 - 8:09amSprinklers are the key to greater flexibility from the fire service, says Capt. Frank Kinnier, an assistant fire marshal with Chesterfield County (Va.) Fire & EMS.
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Governing.com; King of the Road
Submitted by carterburn on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 12:35pmIn the April Transportation column of Governing.com Alex Marshall discuses and criticizes the tendencies of certain Conservative and Libertarian think tanks.
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New Urbanism could be NE Illinois' guiding philosophy ... if you act now
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 4:08pmAs CNU XVI: New Urbanism and the Booming Metropolis draws nigh, an opportunity to help make big plans drops into the laps of Chicago-area new urbanists.
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Vancouver going back to the future to finance transit lines
Submitted by paytonc on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 8:02pmThe newly reconstituted transit authority in Vancouver is looking to transit-oriented development to play a large role in paying its bills going forward.
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Big Dig's Big Bad Example
Submitted by norabeck on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 5:11pmNoah Bierman, in the Boston Globe piece, 'No Big Dig Copycats' notes that the $15 billion dollar tunnel
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Another cost of car dependency
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 2:59pmA recent AAA study on the costs of car accidents lists the areas with the highest accident costs per capita. (See http://planetizen.com/node/30024 )
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Paris Urban Bike Sharing System Now Coming to London
Submitted by hollanderd18 on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 4:20pmThe highly successful, 'super-smart' Velib urban bike sharing system implemented in Paris last summer is now coming to London, with over 15,000 bikes and 1,000 stations.
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Former DOT Engineer Supports Buffalo Boulevard
Submitted by norabeck on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 5:28pmJoe Tocke, former transportation engineer with the NYSDOT, wrote a great opinion piece in the Buffalo News last Friday,
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Buffalo's Top Scribe: "Wall-Like Road Makes No Sense"
Submitted by norabeck on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:37pmDonn Esmonde weighs in on the waterfront debate again this week with his commentary in the Buffalo News, "Route 5 barricade heads to c
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