Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Monday Night Notes

Chris Leinberger tells us that "value capture" is the term of the next year. Though I wish he would dig a bit deeper.
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Izmir imports trams from China.
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Is McCrory for transit or against it? He likes the train when he's in Tampa, but doesn't want to spend money for the streetcars or an extension of light rail. Kay Hagen understands.
Hagan rode to her new Charlotte office – a symbolic short hop – on the Lynx light rail line, a reminder that earlier this year, she secured $24 million for the Charlotte Area Transit System
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Edmonton will levy a fee on suburban developers to pay for new transit.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

good for kay hagen! we always need more allies outside of the northeast/northwest/cali states.