Just released is a synopsis of our Forum for the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Click above to view insights from our speakers as well as photos from the day-long event.
3. After
you hang up, please be sure to let Transportation for America know that
you made the call. Don't skip this step! It helps them track how many
members of Congress we've
reached.
Without over-arching goals
and targets - such as lower energy consumption, greater affordability, and
expanded access - there's no way to be sure billions of dollars in
transportation spending will truly deliver clean, safe and smart transportation.
That's why your call today, as members of Congress are marking up the bill, is
so
important.
The transportation bill
released this week has a lot of what America 2050 and Transportation for America
supporters like you have been pushing for, but today, it still falls short.
We can do better by inserting
the type of objectives that the Transportation Objectives Act of 2009
articulates into the bill released this week. We can't keep pouring our precious
tax dollars into the same old flawed transportation system that leaves us stuck
without options. Let's tell Congress to make transportation funding smart,
clean, and accountable starting
TODAY.
We need you to pick up the
phone - make one simple call - and speak up for transportation reform.
This Friday, join business, civic,
government, and academic leaders of the Southwest megaregion (encompassing
Southern California, the
The
forum will feature keynote speakers John R. Fielder, President of Southern
California Edison and Polly Trottenberg, Executive Director of Building
America's Future. For more information on the speakers and sponsors, visit the
Save the Dates: Sept 23-25
If you can't make it out to
New Paper on Megaregions,
Governance and Finance
A new
Texans think big, and the megaregion concept demands very large-scale thinking.]]> Purpose:
- Frederick Steiner
America 2050 Weighs in on High-Speed Rail
Last month President Obama
announced his Administration's plans for the most significant investment in
intercity and high-speed rail in a generation. With an $8 billion down payment
in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and an additional $5 billion in
his proposed budget, Obama has signaled the start of a new era of commitment to
intercity passenger rail after decades of disinvestment and lack of federal
support.
But as the President
noted, these investments are just the beginning of building a smart
transportation system equal to the needs of the 21st century.
T4
It has been more than fifty years
since the signing of the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act, which
created a network of highways that tied the nation together. Today,
In this "Blueprint", the coalition
offers four main recommendations for the upcoming transportation authorization
bill:
This
document serves as T4 America's proposal for the policies and financing
structures necessary to achieve real transformational change in
Rebuilding & Renewing
Friday, June 19 is the date of the
next "Rebuilding and Renewing America" forum, focused on infrastructure
strategies for the Southwest Megaregion, encompassing Southern California, the
The forum will take place at the Davidson Conference Center on the campus
of the
The forum will aim to
build support for a national infrastructure plan needed for America to respond
to the big challenges of rapid population growth, our dependence on foreign oil,
climate change, global competitiveness, and deteriorating infrastructure, and
identify the major transportation, energy and water infrastructure priorities in
the Southwest Megaregion that are issues of national significance.
Likewise, we hope to find common ground among metropolitan areas in the
Southwest Megaregion on programs and policies that would help regions and
subregions meet their core infrastructure challenges
The forum marks the
first major convening of the west coast office of
Urban challenges such as these are
the subject of the timely volume Century of the City - No Time to Lose,
recently published by the Rockefeller Foundation, the result of its Global Urban
Summit held in July 2007. The
You may order up to 2 free copies of the book from the Rockefeller Foundation here.
Building the Next Economy: Audio
Files and Pictures now available
Regional Plan Association has
released program materials and audio files of the 19th Annual Regional Assembly,
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About
A major focus of
Veracruz, 261 miles due east of Mexico City, is Mexico's most populous metropolitan region on the Gulf Coast. It is also where the first confirmed case of the swine flu epidemic occurred. As the death toll increased and we faced a potential pandemic, the Mexican health system struggled to monitor and contain the spread of the virus, and treat the ill.