The Missing Middle Housing Around Downtown Raleigh
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Raleigh should be striving for housing prices that offer choices to all levels of the socioeconomic scale.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Tampa Bay Times: Make Bikes Part of Hillsborough County Transpo Mix
- Siesta Key, FL Trolley Service Kicks Off (Your Observer)
- FL Lawmakers Concern Troll Pedestrians to Block Passenger Rail (Sunshine State News)
- Bad Roads Cost Charleston Drivers $1,850 a Year (Live 5)
- House Likely to Follow Senate’s Lead on TN Transpo Funding Plan (Tennessean)
- Birmingham Residents Say Freeway Construction Is Making Them Sick (WBRC)
- New Orleans Residents Oppose Plan to Route Trucks Through Ninth Ward (Truth-Out)
- Orlando Wants to Be a Theme Park for Self-Driving Cars (Quartz)
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Why Is Transit Ridership Falling?
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Transit ridership took a turn for the worse in 2016. The big question is why.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Planned Gulf Coast Amtrak Service (AL.com)
- Atlanta’s Transit-Free Suburban Stadium Traffic Nightmare Starts Next Month (AJC)
- Atlanta Streetcar Ridership Has Dropped by Half (AJC)
- Drivers Killed Four Pedestrians on One Leesburg, FL Road in 2015 and 2016 Alone (Daily Commercial)
- FDOT and Hillsborough County Look for “Catalyst Project” to Spur Transit (TB Reporter)
- SunRail Was Packed for Orlando-Area Events Last Weekend (Sentinel)
- Botched Charlotte Interstate Markings Force People to Drive Carefully (The State)
- Raleigh News & Observer Profiles BikeWalk NC’s First Paid Director
- Virginia Panel Favors Raising Gas Tax to Cover Transit Shortfall (Southside Daily)
- Regressive TN Transpo Tax Hike Won’t Help Transit Users (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
- MS Bond Issue Won’t Be Enough to Fix Crumbling Bridges (Daily Leader)
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Connecting the Dots for Mobility in Atlanta’s Core
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“Atlantans want to drive to Downtown” is a common rationale for the parking blitz in the district. Anti-transit bias, the low price of parking, lack of housing options close to Downtown jobs — all of that plays a part.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- MARTA Asks Atlanta Residents Where It Should Expand (Curbed)
- Federal Match for Atlanta’s Transit Plans Threatened by Trump Budget (WABE)
- Sun Sentinel to Rick Scott and FL Legislators: Stop Bullying Tri-Rail
- Northern Virginia Officials Say Metro DC Transit Authority is Failing (Loudon Times-Mirror)
- North Carolina DOT Will Review Charlotte’s I-77 Toll Lanes (Observer)
- SC Gas Tax Hike Unpopular Among Senate Candidates (Anderson Independent Mail)
- Trump Cuts Threaten Small Town Southern Airports (AL.com)
- Uber and Lyft Aren’t Interested in Shreveport Despite New City Law (The Times)
- Arkansas Bill Would Let Voters Decide on Gas Tax Hike (THV 11)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Abandoned Atlanta Street Will Become a Park (AJC)
- Athens, GA Rail-Trail Construction Gets Underway (Red & Black)
- Advocates Hope Elevated Bike Path Will Change Miami’s Cycling Culture (City Lab)
- St. Petersburg Hosts Workshops on Complete Streets (Patch)
- Feds Promise No More Delays on Charlotte Light Rail (Business Journal)
- Some Virginia Commuters Pay More in Tolls Than They Earn (Virginian-Pilot)
- Amtrak Could Restore Gulf Coast Service in 18-24 Months (Holmes County Times Advertiser)
- Louisiana’s Transpo Problem Is Obvious; Solution Is Not (The Advocate)
- Trump Transpo Cuts Would Hit Rural Regions Hard (McClatchy)
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Atlanta Has a Walkable Street Grid — We’re Just Not Using It Well
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Downtown is capable of great things with new development and its streets are a part of that; are we creating a place for urban innovation on them?
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Bill to Put High-Speed Rail Under FDOT Could Jeopardize Brightline (Orlando Sentinel)
- Bill Banning Local Ride-Share Regs Passes FL Senate Committee (News Chief)
- GA State Reps Call for Gwinnett to Vote on MARTA in 2018 (AJC)
- Atlanta BeltLine Will Detour Around Mixed-Use Development Construction (Curbed)
- Runner Hit By Driver in Chapel Hill Remains in Critical Condition (Greensboro News & Record)
- TN Highway Widening Forces Grainger County Property Owners to Sell (WBIR)
- Republican Group Opposes Proposed TN Gas Tax Hike (Tennessean)
- SC Senate Committee Approves Gas Tax Hike (Myrtle Beach Sun News)
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Reimagining Miami’s Waterfront Speedway as a Street for People
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Miami's Biscayne Boulevard is eight roaring lanes of traffic cutting off downtown from the waterfront. But maybe not for long. In what could be a transformative project, the city is looking to convert this surface speedway into a walkable boulevard.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- King Memorial MARTA Station Next Up for Transit-Oriented Development (Atlanta Loop)
- BeltLine Founder: Atlanta Must Do Something About Gentrification (WABE)
- Ride-Sharing Services Shut Down Atlanta Airport Shuttle (AJC)
- Tampa Will Study Why Streetcar Ridership Plummeted (Tampa Bay Times)
- Plan for Bike Bridge Connecting Miami and Key Biscayne on Display (Architect’s Newspaper)
- NC DOT Offers Train Passengers Free “Last Mile” Bus Passes (Triad Business Journal)
- Orange/Durham, NC Officials Speed Up Light Rail Planning (WUNC)
- Virginian-Pilot Blames Communication, Structure for Hampton Roads Transit Shortfall
- TN Senate Committee Approves Haslam’s Transpo Plan — With Gas Tax (Tennessean)
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Southern Boulevard Bridge: Another Bridge That Needs an Underpass
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FDOT is holding a public meeting concerning the Southern Boulevard bridge replacement project. We need to demand more from FDOT, even if that involves some cost sharing from the city.