News for November, 2004
Friday, November 19th, 2004
The Fall Ford Foundation Report includes a feature on the Surface Transportation Policy Project’s STPP work to reform federal transportation policy. STPP works on the broad impacts of transportation investments. Says Anne Canby, STPP’s director, “It’s not just about roads, but air pollution and [its] health effects, the cost of transportation and its impact on families, water quality, wildlife habitats, energy use and climate change.” CNT was a founding member of the STPP coalition, and locally CNT’s Chicagoland Transportation and Air Quality Commission CTAQC is a leading voice for reform in the region.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Jennifer Dorn, administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, discusses in the Star Tribune the shift in consumer preferences away from isolated suburban development toward accessible housing located near transit. Dorn’s arguments are based on Hidden in Plain Sight, a market study of the transit-oriented development market. The Center for Transit-Oriented Development, a project between CNT and Reconnecting America, produced the study.
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
A number of innovative groups have recently begun to apply wireless networking technology in community-based settings. The Center for Neighborhood Technology has been one of those groups. Its Wireless Community Networks project is testing the economic and technical feasibility of providing low-cost broadband service to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, many residents of which cannot afford current market offerings. CNT sees this as a mechanism for both further bridging the Digital Divide, and spurring economic development. CNT is one of the groups featured in Look Ma, No Wires, a recent article in The Non-Profit Times.
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
The November 9th edition of USA Today featured an article on the increasing popularity of transit-oriented development TOD. CNT, along with strategic partners like Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit-Oriented Development CTOD, have been leaders in advancing the TOD movement. CNT recently worked with CTOD to produce a market study of the TOD market. The study, Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing near Transit, completed for the Federal Transit Adminstration, is referenced in the article, and CNT board member Hank Dittmar is quoted extensively.
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