News for November, 2005
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
CNT, in partnership with Reconnecting America, released the third part of a three-part series that examines the state of the airline industry. Missed Connections III documents the continuation of airline industry trends identified in the first two reports: fewer flights and available seats at most of the nation’s airports; an increasing shift to regional jets from wide body jets, which generate lower revenues for airports without a subsequent lowering of aircraft handling expenses; and additional cuts to flights less than 500 miles. The not surprising results: financial difficulties for airlines and airports and fewer options for travelers.
So why does CNT care about the airline industry, you ask? The issues facing the airlines need to be understood in the context of the broader intercity transportation system, which is also under stress. Better connecting our air, rail and bus systems and promoting one, more integrated system that yields both environmental and economic benefits is of critical importance to the future of our cities and regions. Read Missed Connections III for strategies on how to better connect our transportation systems and reconnect our communities.
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
The Leader to Leader Institute formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, which promotes leadership in the social sector, named the Energy-Smart Pricing Plan ESPP its “Innovation of the Week.” The Innovation of the Week is meant to share lessons and discoveries–across a variety of areas like fund development, management or partnerships–of programs that have applied for the Drucker Award.
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
On Wednesday November 2, CNT, Chicago Metropolis 2020, the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Metropolitan Planning Council hosted a lunch featuring Donald Shoup, an economist who teaches in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning. Shoup, an expert on transportation economics who recently published a book called The High Cost of Free Parking, argued to a group of about 200 attendees that current zoning laws, which regulate the amount of parking that different land uses require, end up costing all of us money. The cost of providing that parking becomes assimilated into the price of just about everything we buy–housing, merchandise, services, etc. Shoups’s proposition to the Chicago region: Reduce parking requirements.
CNT’s Jacky Grimshaw talks with WBEZ’s Steve Edwards about Shoup’s arguments as they relate to the Chicago region and how they could improve quality of life here. Listen to Jacky here this story starts about 7:45 minutes into the segment.
Listen to an interview with Donald Shoup on NPR here.
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Los Angeles is often the poster child for sprawl and the domination of the automobile, but not all Angelenos are inseparable from their cars. The New York Times explores the market for transit-oriented development TOD in Southern California, citing research CNT spearheaded with Reconnecting America that resulted in the first-ever national study of the market for TOD, Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing near Transit.
Click “more” below to read the full New York Times article, or click here to read the complete Hidden in Plain Sight report.
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