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Samuel Staley

Where's the planning in metropolitan transportation planning?

30 May 2008 - 9:09am

Randal O’Toole’s recent policy study from the Cato Institute, “Roadmap to Gridlock” is s worthy read for all professional planners, no matter what their ideological or professional stripe. Undoubtedly, most planners probably consider someone who maintains a blog called the “Antiplanner” more of a bomb thrower than a serious policy analyst. But this dismissive attitude throws an awful lot of good work by the road side, and a good example of that is O’Toole’s “Roadmap to Gridlock.”

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Trading Planning Tips With Shanghai

20 May 2008 - 5:00am
Hartford Courant
While the city's regional approach is the envy of many American planners, Shanghai is also guilty of top-down planning that may end up encouraging sprawl.
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Planning For The Sun Corridor

18 May 2008 - 7:00am
East Valley Tribune
A new report focuses on the expected growth of the Phoenix-Tuscon "Sun Corridor" to 10 million residents by 2030, and highlights the challenges and opportunities for this megapolitan region.
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A Final Plea For Transit In Southwest Michigan

16 April 2008 - 5:00am
Detroit Free Press
If local officials don't come together with a workable plan, Detroit may just blow its last chance to implement a regional transportation system.
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Regional Approach Lauded as Key Stretegy for Economic Development

30 March 2008 - 9:00am
The Toledo Free Press
The greater Toledo area needs to think harder about creating regional development if it wants to compete in the globalizing economy, according to this editorial.
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Georgia Considers Regional Taxes for Transportation

27 March 2008 - 12:00pm
WMAZ
Lawmakers in Georgia are considering a plan to ask voters in rural areas to decide whether they want to pay a regional sales tax to fund transportation projects -- a response to the state's few funding sources for transit projects.
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Planning a Smart Transit Future in Tampa Bay

19 March 2008 - 12:00pm
The Tampa Tribune
With a newly formed regional transit authority, Tampa Bay, Florida, may be ready for a regional transit system. Many want to do it right.
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The Regional Approach to Fighting Poverty

15 March 2008 - 11:00am
Albany Times Union
This article from the Albany Times Union looks at the importance of using a regional approach to addressing poverty, crime and inner city blight.
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Is Now the Time for an MPO in Melbourne?

8 March 2008 - 10:00am
The Age
With government plans to increase the amount of land used for affordable housing in Melbourne, Australia, some say it's time for a regional planning entity.
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Parris Glendening

Ontario’s leaders look for “Places to Grow”

22 May 2007 - 1:36pm

Think big.

That’s what the people of Ontario and the Toronto region set out to do more than 5 years ago when they began a visionary planning process for the area known as the Greater Golden Horseshoe in southern Ontario, Canada. (The Greater Golden Horseshoe is the area around Lake Ontario that stretches from roughly Peterborough to the east, west through metropolitan Toronto, and around the west tip of the lake to the southern side and Niagara Falls — hence the horseshoe shape.)

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