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2025: A Lot of Old People on the Roads
"The number of drivers over 70 will triple in the next 20 years. How will they stay safe and mobile? A baby boomer turns 64 one every seven seconds. In between the retirement bookends of health and financial security in transportation - because if you can't get to the big and little things that make up life, even health and money don't matter."
The New York Times "Room for Debate" | By Joseph F. Coughlin | October 20, 2010
Blueprints for a Better 'Burb
"That the Murphys, the couple recently arrested for spying for the Russians from Montclair, N.J., were described by a flabbergasted neighbor as "suburbia personified" is telling, an observation that perfectly sums up our collective notion that the suburbs are chock full of white, middle-class families, both nuclear and normal."
The New York Times "Opinionator" | By Allison Arieff | July 22, 2010
Rain, Even Urine, Would Help Make Bullitt HQ City's 'Greenest Building Ever'
"The Bullitt Foundation plans to build Seattle's greenest building ever, a six-story structure generating as much electrictiy as it consumes and relying almost exclusively on rain for its water."
The Seattle Times | By Eric Pryne | March 15, 2010
Livable Cities and Political Choices
"People need to stop thinking about cities as bundles of technical problems that the planners must solve for them and start thinking about the different ways that they would live in different types of cities."
Planetizen | Author: Charles Siegel | May 20, 2010
2010 Statewide Transportation Enhancements Program Call for Projects
"The Call for Projects for the 2010 Statewide Transportation Enhancements Program has been released as of June 1, 2010."
Puget Sound Regional Council | June 2010
The Next Slum?
"The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today's McMansions into tomorrow's tenements."
The Atlantic Magazine | By Christopher B. Leinberger | March 2008
HUD Announces the End of Urban Sprawl as We Know it, New Urbanists Feel Fine
"It's time the federal government stopped encouraging sprawl," Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan declared this morning before the Congress for the New Urbanism."
Fast Company | By Greg Lindsay | May 2010
Stay Focused on Rails and Trails on the Eastside
"The daily commute is going to change from the pavement up, and it will be for the better if we have the imagination and wit not to go with the traffic flow."
Cascadia | By Lance Dickie The Seattle Times | April 2010
Solving Smog: Air-Pollution Experts Put Heads Together in Denver, Ask For Ideas
"Land-use planning may be the strongest tool communities can use to comply with tough new federal air-quality standards."
The Denver Post | By Bruce Finley | June 2010
Our View | Transportation 2040 Draws Mixed Reviews
"Is it a road map to sustainable transportation, a placeholder list for funding, a costly punishment for drivers... or a supersize serving of pie in the sky?"
The Kitsap Sun | Staff Reports | April 2010
Snohomish County Raises Roof on Urban Development
"Buildings up to 18 stories high could rise in Snohomish County over the next few decades, part of a plan for dense, urban development in unincorporated areas that are now largely low-rise strip malls and other commercial development."
The Seattle Times | By Lynn Thompson | May 2010