News for June, 2005
Monday, June 20th, 2005
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune favorably responds to last week’s release of Driven to Spend with some sharp words for lawmakers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region seeking to cut transit and raise fares.
The Editorial Board writes: “Forcing Minnesotans increasingly to suckle at the spigot of ‘big oil’ isn’t good for the family pocketbook or the regional economy. Nor is it best for solving traffic congestion, air pollution or dependence on foreign energy sources.”
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
A new study by CNT and the Surface Transportation Policy Project STPP examines the impacts of transportation spending on households, especially lower-income ones, in the 28 metro areas for which the federal government collects expenditure data. The report shows that:
–households in regions that have invested in public transportation reap financial benefits, even as gasoline prices rise;
–regions with public transit lose less per household from the increase in gas prices than those without transit; and
–lower-income households are particularly burdened by higher transportation costs since these expenditures claim a higher percentage of household budgets.
Read the report and find out where your region ranks.
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
CNT’s demonstration project to test the efficacy of wireless technologies to address lingering digital divide issues continues to gain visibility. The project is deploying, at a neighborhood scale, low-cost wireless technologies in four Illinois communities to see if it results in a model for providing affordable quality broadband service to households who cannot generally afford traditional service.
Read more about the wireless project and the software that makes the networks run in Government Technology.
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