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How Seniors Get Stuck at Home With No Transit Options

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 14, 2011 | No Comments

According to AARP, 88 percent of seniors want to stay in their own homes as long as they can. But where are those homes? In auto-dependent suburbs. That’s where most Baby Boomers grew up, in the postwar era, and that’s where most of them have stayed – even as the largest (and longest-living) generation ever […]

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Transportation for America Calls on Congress to Fix Nation’s Bridges

By Kathryn Reid Moore | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

Residents in New York and Vermont were shocked in 2009 when the Champlain/Crown Point Bridge was suddenly closed without warning. At the time, the bridge carried about 3,500 cars between the two states daily. Today, those trips have to be taken by ferry or over the next closest bridge, 100 miles away. Few people think […]

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The Silver Lining: 73 Percent of Transpo Ballot Measures Win

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 3, 2010 | No Comments

Ready for some good news? Voters around the country got to decide on 29 transportation-related ballot initiatives yesterday. According to an analysis by the Center for Transportation Excellence, transportation advocates and reformers won 73 percent of them. If you add in other initiatives that passed earlier this year, the victory rate jumps to 77 percent. […]

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T4America Maps TIGER Grantees: Find One Near You

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 28, 2010 | No Comments

Thanks to Transportation for America for putting together this handy map of U.S. DOT’s TIGER grant recipients. It shows the geographical reach of the program, as well as the broad range of projects benefiting from the grants. T4America says: In two batches in February and October 2010, USDOT gave out a total of $2.1 billion […]

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Angela Glover Blackwell on Equity, Infrastructure, and the President

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2010 | No Comments

On Monday, President Obama talked infrastructure with two governors, eight mayors, four former transportation secretaries (and the current one), two labor leaders – and one public interest advocate. That advocate was Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of the think tank PolicyLink and chair of the Transportation for America Equity Caucus, which launched last week. The roundtable […]

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How the Information Age Can Make Streets and Transit More Efficient

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 7, 2010 | No Comments

In Pittsburgh, elderly para-transit riders get automated phone calls with the precise arrival time of their vehicle. Bus priority lanes and preferential traffic signals in the Twin Cities are improving on-time service. Here in Washington, DC, stored value on SmartTrip cards pays for Metro parking, train and bus, and it can sync with pre-tax employee […]

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