Weekly Transportation News
01/13/2012
Transit:
- PolicyLink: Healthy Corridor for All: A Community Health Impact Asessment of Transit-Oriented Development Policy in Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Finance & Commerce: Met Council Close to Deal on LRT Office Space (subscription required)
- Pioneer Press: Minnesota: High-Speed Rail to Chicago to Likely Go Through Milwuakee
- Atlantic Cities: Transit Stations May Actually Cut Down on Crime
Bike/Walk:
- Atlantic Cities: A Plan to Make Drivers Hate Downtown Dublin
- SF Streets Blog: New Bill Could Free CA Planners to Use More Innovative Bikeway Designs
- Streets.MN: Is it Time to Remove Those Pesky Skyways?
- Autopia: New System Uses Radar to Detect Bicylclists at Intersections
- TC Daily Planet/MN 2020: Bank Cards and Bike-sharing
- Chicks on Bikes Radio: Bikeable Cities
- Atlantic Cities: What Neighborhoods Need to Succeed at Walkability
Roads/Bridges:
- New York Times: In Madrid's Heart, Park Blooms Where a Freeway Once Blighted
- MPR: Stillwater Bridge Still High on Bachmann's Agenda
- Winona Daily News: Winona Bridge Still Headed Toward Rehabilitation
- Mankato Free Press: Many Still Not Convinced About Roundabout Benefits
- Streetsblog Los Angeles: The Freeways Are Not So Nice
- Atlantic Cities: The Tricky Second Wave of Urban Highway Removals
Other:
- New York Times: Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces
- Salon: The $88 Million View
- Finance & Commerce: Haigh Hits on 2011 Highs (subscription required)
- Atlantic Cities: The Best Smart Growth Projects in America
- Transportation Experts: The Health Impacts of Transportation





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