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Planning scholar Daniel Chatman of the University of California at Berkeley has been thinking a lot lately about "agglomeration." Don't let the technical word throw you. All it really means is more people in the same place. As more people collect in a city center, more jobs cluster there too, boosting both wages and economic productivity over time. And the key to it all, he believes, may be public transportation…

More info at http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/public-transit-worth-way-more-city-you-think/6532/

Boulder, CO

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Boulder City Council members have serious concerns about a proposal from state transportation officials to put a 0.7 percent sales tax on the ballot next year…

More info at http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_23857560/boulder-leaders-worry-about-state-sales-tax-measure

Roaring Fork Valley, CO

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Roaring Fork Valley voters and the federal government took a $46.2 million gamble that a hefty financial investment in an expanded bus system would result in a big increase in ridership…

More info at http://www.postindependent.com/news/7646782-113/bus-project-rfta-sept

Atlanta, GA

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Last summer, voters from a 10-county region in and around Atlanta shot down a large package of transportation projects, including some major urban transit projects.

Could Atlanta exploit a resource it has plenty of — parking — to improve transit and sidewalks? Image: Creative Loafing
But almost immediately after, plucky Atlanta leaders were searching for other ways to move the work forward. The city of Atlanta hasn’t set aside ambitions for things like the Beltline, an innovative circle of trails and transit that would ring the city…

More info at http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/08/12/might-atlanta-tax-parking-to-fund-transit/

Indianapolis, IN

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The fate of a plan to expand transit in Central Indiana may be tied up in an Indiana General Assembly summer study committee, but the planners aren’t waiting…

More info at http://www.indystar.com/article/20130812/NEWS19/308120059/Erika-D-Smith-No-certainties-transit-Indy-here-some-possibilities?nclick_check=1

Dallas, TX

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Automobile-loving North Texans took a radical step 30 years ago. That’s when voters in more than a dozen cities approved a 1 percent sales tax to fund Dallas Area Rapid Transit, now America’s largest light rail system…

More info at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/20130810-at-30-dart-still-faces-growing-pains.ece

Kansas City, MO

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Kansas City’s downtown streetcar project overcame a big legal hurdle Wednesday when the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the downtown taxes to help pay for it…

More info at http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/07/4395038/appeals-court-upholds-dismissal.html

Raleigh, NC

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In October, Raleigh residents will cast a vote for or against a $75 million transportation bond to fund capital projects throughout the city…

More info at http://raleighpublicrecord.org/news/city-council/2013/08/08/transportation-bond-goes-to-ballot/

Tampa, FL

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A Hillsborough County coalition lobbying for transportation improvements wants government officials to set a specific deadline for delivering proposals on road and mass transit projects…

More info at http://tbo.com/mass-transit-backers-want-to-speed-up-new-proposals-20130808/

Austin, TX

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Gary Hinze’s truck route delivering car-wash detergent, paint and engine parts in Austin, Texas, often takes two hours a day longer than when he started 13 years ago — the result of worsening bumper-to-bumper traffic…

More info at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-08/texas-drivers-stuck-in-traffic-as-state-rejects-taxes-for-roads.html