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Tennessee DOT Moves Past Road-Widening as a Congestion Reduction Strategy

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 30, 2012 | No Comments

In the late eighties and nineties, every traffic issue the Tennessee Department of Transportation faced was assigned the same solution: a bypass. But over the years, the department has come around to a new way of doing things, according to 40-year TDOT veteran Ralph Comer. Comer says the current commissioner, John Schroer, wants to become […]

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Brookings: Inadequate Transit and Sprawl Cut Off Workers From Jobs

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 11, 2012 | No Comments

If there’s a problem connecting workers with workplaces, it stands to reason that there’s a problem connecting workplaces with workers. A new report from the Brookings Institution has teased out the subtleties of this side of the transit/jobs equation. Last year, Brookings found that, on average, 70 percent of jobs in a metropolitan region are […]

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The Auto Industry Wants Your Thanks

By Anne Lutz Fernandez | Apr 24, 2012 | No Comments

Feeling warmer and fuzzier about the auto industry bailout? With the help of the Obama reelection campaign, the industry is convincing more Americans that the $80 billion they forked over to save it were dollars well spent. In the latest Pew poll, the public responded more positively toward the bailout than ever before, with 56 […]

Memo to Chris Quinn: New York Voters Like Livable Streets

By Brad Aaron | Mar 20, 2012 | 6 Comments

Christine Quinn is not known as a politician who shies away from shying away, but it might be time to ditch her public indifference toward NYC DOT’s street safety and public space program. Monday evening, the Times reported on a Times Square Alliance study that, Great Recession notwithstanding, shows booming growth since 2007. Currently, the […]

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New Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart Growth

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 6, 2011 | No Comments

What happened to the United States over the past several years is most commonly described as a recession. By the technical definition of the word we’re two years into a recovery. But it sure doesn’t seem that way. Meanwhile, a growing chorus of intellectual leaders says the country is experiencing something different than a normal […]

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The Incredible Shrinking Megastore: Retailers Think Outside the Big Box

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 15, 2011 | No Comments

They lord over empty parking lots in Hazard, Kentucky; Twinsburg, Ohio; and Lewiston, Washington like the ruins of a lost civilization. Vacant Walmart stores are slowly decomposing in more and more American towns these days. More than 100 of them have been memorialized as part of the group Flickr pool known smugly as “They Sold […]

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