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Nov 6
Smart Growth at the Polls : National news reports of last Tuesday’s election focused on the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races and the congressional race in upstate New York....
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Nov 4
Employment Up, Transit Ridership Down : Transit ridership has fallen in 2009, which the American Public Transportation Association blames mainly on the recession....
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Nov 3
The Ultimate Transportation Antiplanning Book : This is a bit premature, but booksellers such as Amazon and reviewers such as the Globe and Mail have already let the cat out of the bag....
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Nov 2
Great Example of Government Planning : Oregon Governor Kunlongoski wanted to give tax breaks to companies building windmills....
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Nov 2
Stuck in the 1960s : Each year, about one out of 40 households receive a letter from the Census Bureau demanding that they fill out an American Community Survey asking such nosy questions as how much money each person in...
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Oct 30
The Importance of Cars; The Irrelevance of Transit : A new study published by the Cascade Policy Institute provides more evidence that the automobile is a key part of the nation’s economy....
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Oct 29
Corporatizing Transit : Apple Computer has agreed to spend nearly $4 million fixing up a run-down subway station and bus turnaround lane next to a planned Apple Store in Chicago....
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Oct 28
The 2008 Transit Data Are Here! : The Antiplanner is a data junkie....
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Oct 27
The Definition of Failure: Houston’s Light Rail : At one of the Antiplanner’s presentations in Houston, a member of the audience representing the Citizens’ Transportation Coalition propsed that Houston’s light rail was a success....
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Oct 27
U.S. High-Speed Rail Network : When Obama endorsed the Federal Railroad Administration’s 8,600-mile high-speed rail plan, the Antiplanner predicted that rail advocates would not be satisfied with such a small system....
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Oct 27
Can FasTracks Be Killed? : Denver’s FasTracks rail plan gets deeper and deeper into trouble....
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Oct 27
$4.6 Billion for 5.2 MPH : I’ve been too busy in Texas to read Illinois’ application for high-speed rail (110-mph) between Chicago and St. Louis (52 MB PDF)....
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Oct 27
Do TODs Increase Transit Usage? : The Oregonian reports that residents of Orenco — a transit-oriented development built on prime farm land miles from Portland — mostly drive to work rather than use the light-rail line that is located...
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Oct 27
Travels with the Antiplanner 3: Sumpter Valley Railroad : As noted yesterday, the Antiplanner is in San Antonio today. But before leaving Oregon, I visited the Sumpter Valley Railroad for the fall photographer’s special....
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Oct 27
Back in the Air Again : The Antiplanner is flying to Texas today for a busy week of conferences and speeches....
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Oct 27
FCC Disclosure : As of December, the Federal Communications Commission requires bloggers to disclose any payments they receive for products they endorse....
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Oct 27
Compact Cities Won’t Save the Planet : Several recent reports from the smart-growth crowd have argued that U.S. cities must be rebuilt to higher densities in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....
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Oct 27
HSR Won’t Reduce CO2 in Sweden : “There seems to be a perception that large-scale investments in high-speed railways is a climate policy necessity,” observe two researchers from the Swedish Road and Transport Institute....
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