Dallas Morning News
Micheal Lindenberger
The Cap Metro passenger rail expansion in Austinhasn't been with its significant setbacks, but last night it showed off a gleaming new rail car that should soon besnaking along the city's 32-mile track.
The cars will remind Dallas riders more of the TRE vehicles than the light rail trains they are used to. That's true in part because the CapMetro tracks are used for both passenger rail and freight rail services
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Rethinking Public Participation for Smart Growth
The City Fix
David Daddio // January 5, 2010
In an interview conducted by Builder Magazine (via CityCaucus.com), American New Urbanist Andrés Duany, co-author of the recently released Smart Growth Manual, argues that public participation is one of the greatest impediments to smart growth. From the interview:
David Daddio // January 5, 2010
In an interview conducted by Builder Magazine (via CityCaucus.com), American New Urbanist Andrés Duany, co-author of the recently released Smart Growth Manual, argues that public participation is one of the greatest impediments to smart growth. From the interview:
If you ask people what they want, they don’t want density. They don’t want mixed-use. They don’t want transit. They don’t even want a bike path in their back yard. They don’t want a grid that connects, they want cul-de-sacs. They can’t see the long term benefits of walkable neighborhoods with a greater diversity of housing types. This book is a quick read and is dedicated explicitly to them. It’s for the people, not for planning professionalsMORE
U.S. car ownership shifts into reverse
The Globe & Mail
Martin Mittelstaedt // January 4, 2010
Americans' infatuation with their cars has endured through booms and busts, but last year something rare happened in the United States: The number of automobiles actually fell.
The size of the U.S. car fleet dropped by a hefty four million vehicles to 246 million, the only large decline since the U.S. Department of Transportation began modern recordkeeping in 1960. Americans bought only 10 million cars – and sent 14 million to the scrapyard.
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Martin Mittelstaedt // January 4, 2010
Americans' infatuation with their cars has endured through booms and busts, but last year something rare happened in the United States: The number of automobiles actually fell.
The size of the U.S. car fleet dropped by a hefty four million vehicles to 246 million, the only large decline since the U.S. Department of Transportation began modern recordkeeping in 1960. Americans bought only 10 million cars – and sent 14 million to the scrapyard.
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Texas May Enact VMT Tax
Houston Chronicle
Peggy Fikac // January 3, 2010
Peggy Fikac // January 3, 2010
If you don't like gasoline taxes, here's an alternative: a tax on the number of miles you drive in a year.
The Texas Transportation Commission has directed a fresh study of the idea, and it is not alone. There are pilot projects in other states and nationally to gauge how such a tax would work.
Texas transportation officials say the study is meant to help give lawmakers information on options ahead of their next regular session in 2011, when they confront a funding squeeze that is expected to drain the highway fund of money for new construction contracts by 2012.
“We need to think differently about how we fund transportation,” Texas Transportation Commission Chairwoman Deirdre Delisi said at a Texas Taxpayers and Research Association forum in November.
Delisi said the vehicle-miles-traveled tax idea is controversial, but should be discussed because revenue from the state's main source of transportation funding, the motor fuels tax, is declining. The gasoline tax has not been raised since 1991.
10 things to watch in Dallas for 2010
Pegasus News
Shawn Williams of Dallas South News // January 4, 2010
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Dallas Black Dance Theatre at Wyly Theatre
Continued Main Street resurgence
511 Akard
Victory Park
Empty Southern Dallas promises
Oak Cliff streetcars
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Shawn Williams of Dallas South News // January 4, 2010
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Dallas Black Dance Theatre at Wyly Theatre
Continued Main Street resurgence
511 Akard
Victory Park
Empty Southern Dallas promises
Oak Cliff streetcars
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Spire Realty adds to its land holdings near the Arts District
Dallas Morning News
Steve Brown // January 4, 2010
Investor Spire Realty Group has bought almost two acres of land in downtown Dallas near the Arts District.
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Steve Brown // January 4, 2010
Investor Spire Realty Group has bought almost two acres of land in downtown Dallas near the Arts District.
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Hopes are high for a hipper Las Colinas
Dallas Morning News
Brandon Formby // January 4, 2010
Las Colinas' Urban Center sees plenty of daytime traffic as thousands of North Texans make their way to and from work in its skyscrapers.
But nightlife? Not so much.
Irving leaders are betting a number of developments – many built with millions in public money – will soon change all that. They anticipate concerts, restaurants and shops will draw people to the area. They hope more businesses will then follow.
So how is this different from previous plans to turn the Urban Center into a bustling hub of tourists and locals eating and shopping around waterways and on restaurant patios? And what's to set it apart from developments at Victory Park and around Cowboys Stadium that have fallen far short of expectations?
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Brandon Formby // January 4, 2010
Las Colinas' Urban Center sees plenty of daytime traffic as thousands of North Texans make their way to and from work in its skyscrapers.
But nightlife? Not so much.
Irving leaders are betting a number of developments – many built with millions in public money – will soon change all that. They anticipate concerts, restaurants and shops will draw people to the area. They hope more businesses will then follow.
So how is this different from previous plans to turn the Urban Center into a bustling hub of tourists and locals eating and shopping around waterways and on restaurant patios? And what's to set it apart from developments at Victory Park and around Cowboys Stadium that have fallen far short of expectations?
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