Topic – Infrastructure
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Kaid Benfield
Freeways without futures
Communities can benefit from replacing freeways with boulevards.
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Dr. David Levinson
Infrastructure needs
A hierarchy of infrastructure needs offers a tool for prioritizing investments.
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Hutchison, Kerry legislation would create infrastructure bank
Bank would finance roads, rail
Some unsure how government will pay for plan
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Ray LaHood
Data supports bike projects
Bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects good for economy.
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James Oberstar
Fuel taxes must be raised.
If America can't move people and goods, it will never recover.
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Mica to revisit Obama transport priorities
Calls for private investment
New house transportation chair will scrutinize transportation infrastructure initiatives next year and might pull back from some programs.
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Duany on the ascendancy of Landscape Urbanism
Duany video from 18th CNU
Andrés Duany talks about New Urbanism and the ascendancy of Landscape Urbanism.
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Metro officials talk about principles for good transit
Creating great infrastructure
Metro Board Chair Gilbert Garcia, President George Greanias, and Metro Board Members Burt Ballanfant and Christof Spieler talk about their visions for transit.
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Gas taxes dip to all-time low
Inflation-adjusted numbers
Gas taxes in the US have dipped to all-time low, adjusted for inflation.
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Steve Loranger
Financing new infrastructure
Strategic partnerships should finance new infrastructure
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Stephen Lee Davis
US House proposes cutting transit funding out of transpo reauthorization bill
Ben Goldman
Make the house bill better for walking, biking, and transit
Richard Florida
Venture capital is shifting downtown
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