News for October, 2004
Friday, October 22nd, 2004
CNT, in partnership with Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, announced the launch of the West Frankfort Wireless Community Network. The project will build a new infrastructure for delivering low-cost, high-speed wireless Internet access to West Frankfort residents, who are less connected than residents of other Illinois communities.
CNT’s local partner is the John A. Logan Community College. “With always-on broadband Internet access in the home, students can get help with their homework, and access multiple sources of educational enrichment, while parents can gain the competencies required in today’s job market,” said R.J. Sussman, Frankfort network project facilitator. “Setting up a wireless community network is like giving West Frankfort a technological jump start. We hope that residents will not only enjoy the new resource, but also become better able to communicate and compete in our technology-driven society.”
Read more about the project at: http://wcn.cnt.org/.
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
On the day of the Chicagoland Transportation & Air Quality Commission’s CTAQC succesful 10th Anniversary Congress, CTAQC Co-director Jacky Grimshaw talks about transportion issues in the region and the proposed CTA cuts with WBEZ’s Steve Edwards. CTAQC’s 190+ member coalition has been a leader in bringing about transportation reform in the region.
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
The Center for Neighborhood Technology is launching a project to address the region’s pressing water problems. The project is called “Valuing Smarter Investments: Supporting Better Decisions for Water Infrastructure Provision in the Great Lakes Region.” The primary objective of the project is to improve water-related decision-making among civic leaders by helping them to understand the differences–environmental and economic–between traditionally-engineered water infrastructure and alternatives. Alternatives in this case are those based on either renewable and/or green infrastructure–the interconnected network of open spaces and natural areas that provides wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities and maintains the sustainability of our region.
Support for this project was received from the Joyce Foundation. For more information please see “Water Water Everywhere” in the latest issue of the Foundation’s Work in Progress.
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Friday, October 1st, 2004
A study by the Center for Transit Oriented Development CTOD, a joint venture between CNT, Reconnecting America, and Strategic Economics, shows that demand for compact housing near transit is likely to more than double by 2025. Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing Near Transit finds that across the U.S. more than 14.6 million households are likely to want to rent and buy housing near transit by 2025, double the number that live in these neighborhoods today. Meeting this demand would require building 2,100 residential units near each of the 3,971 stations included in the study. CTOD Director Shelley Poticha calls this “a staggering figure considering that only a small portion of housing is being constructed in these locations today. It means that transit could become the armature for a significant amount of regional growth and help increase transit ridership.”
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