PenTrans Update
March 13th, 2017
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SWPA 10-County Transpo Plan
In This Issue
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Trump: Transportation
Nation & World
Parking & High Speed Rail
Pennsylvania
Transportation strategy outlined for 10-county southwestern PA region
-Pittsburgh Business Times
Bus Rapid Transit Would Link
Downtown Pittsburgh, Oakland
-U.S. News
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Chairman Sean Logan Steps Down
-Transport Times
Cumberland County commissioners
ask for state audit of Capital Area
Transit; say execs get 2 pensions
-PennLive
LCTA's possible move to downtown
W-B would bring compressed natural
gas for agency, public
-Wilkes-Barre Citizen's Voice
Pennsylvanians encouraged to
rate PennDOT performance
-we are CentralPA.com
SEPTA Key Travel Wallet
Expansion Begins Monday
-Philadelphia Magazine
Pennsylvania bills to permit local
speed radar use clear committee
-Land Lines Magazine
"Bike and Ride" Expanded
at SEPTA Stations
-philly.com
Major Pa.-NJ bridge
reopening after repair
-Lebanon Daily News
SEPTA: Overhead power issues
resolved on Regional Rail lines
-philly.com
Massive girders leave Pennsylvania
for new Tappan Zee Bridge
-philly.com
New Jersey
How Long Can NJ Transit Keep
Rolling with Flat State Aid?
-NJ Spotlight
3 North Jersey projects could
blaze new trails
-NorthJersey.com
$400 Million in Supplemental
Spending Could Smooth Way
to Transportation Projects
-NJ Spotlight
Report Gives New Jersey
D-Plus
For Infrastructure
-CBS New York
Study to examine extending
MARC line to Newark
-Newark Post
Trump: Transportation
Trump talks infrastructure
with Musk, developers
-Reuters
Trump plan for private highway
funding limited in its ability to fix
U.S.' ailing infrastructure
-Commercial Carrier Journal
Trump to meet with business leaders
on infrastructure
-Reuters
Nation & World
US infrastructure gets near flunking
grade from engineer group
-Bloomberg News
Lawmakers Call Plan to Raise
Sales Tax for Roads a Hard Sell
-U.S. News
Big Apple chokes on
ride-hailing apps
-Straits Times
Why Trump should make
public transit his moonshot
-CNN
US transportation way
behind Sweden's
-PRI
Groups laud flexible commute
benefits bill to give employees
more sustainable commute options
-CSG
Nearly 90% of Public Transit Trips
Impact Economy Through Work
Commute and Consumer Spending
-Mass Transit
How a Failed Experiment Could
Still Be the Future of Public Transit
-Wired
Metro Has Lost So Many Customers
It's Dragging Down
National Ridership Figures
-Washingtonian
Donald Shoup
How Zoning Can Ease Land Assembly
-Urban Land Institute
California's Finally Ready for
Truly Driverless Cars
-Wired
The American suburbs as we
know them are dying
-msn
U.S. Department of Transportation
Awards Booz Allen Hamilton a Spot
on $202 Million Contract
-Yahoo Finance
Fixing America's failing infrastructure won't be easy, despite Trump's pledge
-The Guardian
Transportation Funding
- It's 'All-of-the-Above'
-Morning Consult
Sec. LaHood Says Trump Has
Real Vision on Infrastructure
-Bloomberg
Rep. Lou Barletta
Trump infrastructure plan is sound
-Cumberlink
Rendell: Trump's $1T infrastructure proposal isn't enough
-The Hill
Beth Osborne
Congress: Be the partner local communities need on transportation
-The Hill
Rather than planning and implementing changes on one street at a time,
Boston will address an entire
"zone" within a neighborhood
-City of Boston
Consultant STV Snags New York
MTA Chief Prendergast
-ENR
Cyclists Took 28 Million Bike-Share
Trips In The U.S. In 2016, Group Says
-npr
Parking
End of free parking is the last straw
for some Reston residents
-Washington Post
High Speed Rail-go-Round
Why Doesn't The United States
Have High-Speed Bullet Trains
Like Europe And Asia?
-Forbes
PenTrans Board of Directors
Co-Chairs
Beverly Harper
Portfolio Associates, Inc.
Thomas J. Spearing, III.
Hill International, Inc.
Secretary-Treasurer
Tom Halterman
Urban Engineers, Inc.
Edward M. D'Alba
Urban Engineers, Inc.
Richard Amodei
STV, Inc.
Peter Angelides
Econsult Soultions, Inc.
Rich Bickel
Econsult Solutions, Inc.
Bert Cossaboon
McCormick Taylor
Peter Denitz
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Julie Green
LTK
Jeff Hans
HDR
Elizabeth Hansmann
Jacobs
David Hollis
HNTB
Alex Houseal
AECOM
Marilyn Jamison
Michael Baker Corp.
Adam Krom
Amtrak
Herman Lloyd
JMT
Herman Lloyd
JMT
Marc Preim
STV, Inc.
Megan Syrnick
WTS
Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Mark Stout
Mark L. Stout Consulting
Alanna Strohecker
AECOM
Richard P. Voith
Econsult Solutions, Inc.
Emille L. Williams
COMTO
PenTrans Advisory Group
Beverly Coleman
Temple University
Joseph DiFiore
PB
Jenny Granger
JMT
Karen Gelman
Amtrak
Court Gould
Sustainable Pittsburgh
Joseph Guzzi
HNTB
Chris Jandoli
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Carol Martsolf
WTS
Patrick Starr
Penn Environmental Council
Julie Green
LTK Engineering Services
Vukan Vuchic
UPenn (Ret.)
Rick Wooten
Malady & Wooten
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