T4 America is a national coalition advocating for a 21st Century transportation system for America.
http://t4america.org
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http://t4america.org
http://twitter.com/T4Ameri
Transportation for America Want to help end tragedies like the 76,000 Americans killed while walking or crossing a street over the last 15 years? Send a message to Congress and tell them to support the Active Community Transportation Act today to help make walking and biking safer and more attractive across the country.
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In the last 15 years, 76,000 Americans have been killed by while walking or crossing a street – help could be on the way from Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
Heather Morgen Ward DEAR TFA ---- I CENSORED MY MESSAGE FOR YOU AND THE KIDS XOXO *ONE*
Anthony Noody today is St. Patrick's Day celebration in Hoboken, NJ... another reason to remind people transit's role in helping to prevent drunk driving (something hardly ever addressed in transit advocacy).
Anthony Noody The NE rail corridor is by far the most obvious one as far as population density, economic and political importance of various institutions, and the existence of already extensive and widely used transit systems. The last point is particularly key and often neglected (it is much easier to convince people to take rail i...f their is adequate transit upon their arrival). BTW - about 17% of the US population, and about 25% of the nation's GDP is within the 500 mile long NE Megalopolis (only about 2% of the nations land area).
Anita Wilburn where are the cities in america with the best public transportation?
Transportation for America Unfortunately, this story is all too common all across the country — but Atlanta's crisis with transit is shocking. Half of all bus routes could be canceled, 12-30 min. waits for trains, and 25-30% of all service cut. Their deficit represents nearly a third of their operating budget. This for the agency with the lowest... cost per-passenger-mile cost of any heavy rail system in the country.
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Transit riders in Metro Atlanta will soon require a new system map to find their way because the current map is about to be ancient history, a document fit for use only by archivists and history buffs. ...
Deboroah Miller Important issue for all americans!
Transportation for America Money in Senate jobs bill for keeping transit systems running = $0. Tell Sen. Reid that we're counting on him to do better in the next installment. Millions depend on these systems everyday for their livelihood.
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Transit agencies around the country are facing tough choices - from massive layoffs to reduced service and fare hikes, everything is on the table. Unfortunately, the latest jobs bill won't do anything to help the situation. ...
Ray Fill Has anyone brought up Wing in Ground Effect or the new Hybrid Airships for transportation needs? They don't require as much infrastructure to lay down as rail even.
Transportation for America DOT announced the winners of their competitive TIGER grants this morning. Winners include projects to convert highways to boulevards, create livable and complete streets, support streetcars and light rail projects, promote innovative highway funding and the building of multimodal bridges. T4's Mayor Smith notes that “t...he sheer popularity of this ground-breaking approach is testament to how many states and localities are struggling to build innovative projects that simply don’t happen under the pre-existing transportation program.”
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The Obama Department of Transportation today broke historic ground in unveiling projects chosen in a first-ever program to award federal dollars on a competitive basis to innovative projects that address economic, environmental and travel issues at once.
Transportation for America Check out this terrific short video of Mayor John Robert Smith, the co-chair of T4 America and former mayor of Meridian, Miss., explain his very personal reasons for leaving his hometown and moving to DC to be a part of this movement for smarter, safer, faster transportation for all.
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Mary Vogel I'm creating a link to T4A in my next blog article for Sustainable Industries where I suggest that the next federal transporation bill needs to fund sustainable stormwater management in the largest part of our public realm--the streets. I hope T4A will support this effort.
Wayne Senville posted a short report on our PlannersWeb blog on Saturday (our primary audience includes citizen and professional planners)
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It was really quite remarkable. After nearly half a century of ignoring rail's potential, the nation is finally making a major investment in developing high-speed rail corridors. The confluence of: the ...
Transportation for America Mayor John Robert Smith, former mayor of Meridian, Miss., has been hard at work on improving rail travel in the south and across the country for several decades now. Here's his response to Obama's mention of high speed rail in the State of the Union and yesterday's grants.
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Hearing President Obama call high-speed rail “the infrastructure of tomorrow” gave me great hope.Very rarely has transportation investment made the final cut in a presidential State of the Union address. ...
