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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Chicago, IL. Today, representatives from the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Metropolitan Planning Council, Illinois PIRG, Environmental Law and Policy Center, and Transportation for America issued a media release about U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar’s bill that would reauthorize federal surface transportation funding for roads, bridges, and passenger and freight rail to the tune of $450 billion.
Core News Facts
- U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, introduced a bill on Monday, June 22, 2009, that would reauthorize federal surface transportation funding for roads, bridges, and passenger and freight rail to the tune of $450 billion.
- The current allocation expires at the end of September 2009.
- Authorization of a new transportation bill occurs only once every six years. This bill, and the billions of dollars it will allocate, has the potential to redefine how the American people get around for generations, just as the highway system envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower more than 60 years ago still defines us today.
- Rep. Oberstar estimates the bill would cost approximately $450 billion, but the federal Highway Trust Fund is headed toward bankruptcy for the second time in as many years. Most experts believe it will run out of cash by mid-August.
- The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to begin exploring how to finance this bill in July.
- Illinois members of Congress – U.S. Reps. Jerry Costello (D-12th Dist.), Timothy V. Johnson (R-15th Dist.), and Dan Lipinski (D-3rd Dist.) – will play a critical role in these negotiations because of their positions as members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Positive Features of the Bill
- Money Dedicated to Repairing Aging Roads and Bridges. Creates a substantial, dedicated funding stream for maintaining roads and bridges – the Critical Asset Investment Program – and would require transit agencies to show how they are maintaining their systems in a state of good repair.
- Simpler, More Streamlined Programs. Consolidates the current 108 programs, eliminating or combining 75 of them.
- Greater Local Control. More money to the metropolitan areas that have the thorniest transportation problems.
- A Stronger Rural Voice. Rural areas get a bigger say in state-level transportation decision-making.
- Transit New Starts Program. Eliminates the “cost effectiveness” index that makes reduced travel time the overriding criterion, streamlines project delivery.
- Promotes Intermodal Planning. Gives substantial responsibility to a new Office of Intermodalism, which would integrate investments in multiple modes (promoting, for instance, simultaneous investment in a bus rapid transit route along a repaired highway.)
Unclear/Needs Improvement
- Livability and Public Health. The bill has strong overarching language on livable communities and health: Building neighborhoods where people have access to affordable living and travel options – you can walk, drive or take transit, you can find homes you can afford near transit stops and job centers.
- However livability can’t just be an office in the federal government; it needs to be part of how localities qualify for money. The Office itself needs more money and authority
- Health needs to be elevated as a goal, performance measure and criterion throughout the legislation
- Public Transportation. The increase from 18 to 22 percent of the total share of funding is moving in the right direction, but there is a potential that the 22 percent is a ceiling rather than a floor.
- There are several flexible pots of funding in the 78% of the non-transit funds, but they don’t have the proper direction and performance criteria to ensure they will be truly multimodal.
- It’s very positive that there is some flexibility to use dollars for operating expenses (the money to help run buses and trains and provide more frequent service) but the flexibility could be broadened as proposed under HR2746.
- Metro Mobility and Access program is a very positive step that supplies more financial resources to metropolitan planning agencies to tackle critical transportation issues. While tackling congestion is important, there needs to be an equal emphasis on smarter approaches to managing travel demand including system operations and efficiency and transit-oriented development and better planning for linking where people live and access to the jobs and other destinations they need to travel to.
- Clean Transportation and a Connection to Climate Change. Bill language gives a nod to having transportation do its part on climate protection, but there are no real teeth or accountability provisions.
- Access for Vulnerable Populations. Programs for low-income, disabled and aging Americans are consolidated within the broader public transportation programs, but it’s unclear yet how high a priority these programs will be and how they will effectively coordinated.
Critical Missing Elements
- Goals, Performance Targets and Accountability. Having individual programs that work better is certainly a step in the right direction, but having programs that work together toward achieving a set of national objectives – as outlined in HR2724 – is critical if we are going to be successful in moving to a truly integrated, intermodal national transportation system.(Illinois transportation advocates are pushing for the state to enact a similar approach to transportation investment by developing selection criteria based on statewide goals.)
- Green Freight and Ports. The requirement of a freight plan inclusive of truck, rail, ports, etc., is positive. However, the actual funding appears to be aimed only at expanding highway capacity and there is no provision for cleaning up the nation’s trucks, trains and ports.
- Smarter Land Use/Stronger Communities. Other than a few mentions of land use, the bill draft contains nothing substantive to provide incentives to coordinate land use, affordable housing and community development with transportation so people have more options to live closer to jobs.
- Equity/Affordability. Overall of the four ‘E’s – economy, environment, energy and equity – equity seems to get the least attention in the bill as drafted. There could be stronger overarching objectives and project level criteria to ensure benefits for low-income communities. The concept of household cost and overall affordability of transportation also gets no mention in the draft bill – transportation is now the second highest household cost for families and the poor spend an exorbitant amount on getting from point A to point B. At the very least this should be an overarching performance objective as suggested in HR2724.
- Blueprint Planning. While the concept paper released June 18 outlined a bold “blueprint planning” provision that would require visionary, scenario-based planning that integrates transportation, housing, land use patterns and builds in specific performance targets, the bill draft falls short of making this promise a reality.
- Workforce Development. There is a placeholder in the draft for a workforce development, but no language yet to address the need to get low-income, women and minority workers into job training and career pathways into the transportation industry.
Sources
James Corless, Director, Transportation for America
“Chairman Oberstar and his committee members have done us all a great service in launching the discussion of updating our nation’s transportation program for the 21st Century. This year’s bill represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set America on a new course and it is essential that we get it right.” James.corless@t4america.org
Brian Imus, State Director, Illinois PIRG
“The decisions made by Congress will have a huge impact on the future of public transportation in Illinois. There are expansion projects like the Red Line extension in Chicago and high-speed intercity rail linking Illinois and Midwest cities that will help address our dependence on oil and curb congestion in our cities. Fixing problems like these that commuters face everyday will only happen with a meaningful change in the way lawmakers in Washington, D.C., spend our transportation dollars.” brian@illinoispirg.org, 312-291-0441, ext. 210
Kevin Brubaker, Deputy Director, Environmental Law & Policy Center
“This bill proposes to provide 80 percent of the cost of high-speed rail investments, for the first time putting rail on an equal footing with highways. That’s good news for jobs, transportation, and the environment.” kbrubaker@elpc.org, (312) 673-6500
Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology
“For working families, those households earning $20,000 to $50,000 annually, transportation costs can equal or exceed housing costs. This limits their ability to find truly affordable housing in all parts of the region because transportation options are not universally available. The lack of transportation options disproportionately burdens the poor and moderate income families.” jacky@cnt.org, 773-269-4033
Peter Skosey, Vice President, Metropolitan Planning Council
“Momentum is building to revamp outdated policies and entrenched structures that have led to federal mis-investment in communities across metropolitan Chicago and the nation. Rep. Oberstar’s bill is a sign that federal investment policy is moving away from investing in silos via arbitrary funding formulas toward supporting infrastructure that increases the capacity of our entire transportation system, while achieving interconnected goals such as reducing emissions, sparking new economic development opportunities, and connecting jobs, homes and transit.” pskosey@metroplanning.org, 312-863-6004
Additional Local and National Resources
Information on the cost of mis-investment in Illinois transportation infrastructure:
- Getting on Track: Key Public Transportation Projects, Illinois PIRG reports on the value of public transportation in Illinois.
- Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Housing + Transportation Affordability Index: CNT illustrates that truly affordable communities need homes at a range of price points, as well as reliable, accessible transportation options. Their user-customizable maps also show that communities with greater density produce lower CO2 emissions.
- Moving at the Speed of Congestion: Metropolitan Planning Council reports that excess traffic congestion costs Chicago-area businesses, individuals and the environment $7.3 billion annually.
- Benefits of high-speed rail: Environmental Law & Policy Center’s Web site features a webinar briefing on new developments and funding affecting the Midwest High-Speed Rail Network, and includes details on the benefits of high-speed rail.
- Transit State of Good Repair: The Federal Transit Administration assesses the condition of the nation’s transit infrastructure, and begins to outline the steps necessary to bring it to a state of good repair. Chicago is among seven of the nation’s largest transit systems that are underfunded, confirming the Regional Transportation Authority’s concerns.
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Community Collaboration Brings Pre-Olympic Environment to Chicago’s West Side
(Chicago,IL). On Friday, June 5, 2009, 6th and 7th grade students from Thomas Chalmers Specialty School in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood will join volunteers from Baxter International, Inc. and the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) staff to plant a rain garden where, up until last week, a slab of asphalt once smothered the ground. CNT and Baxter have partnered to create an 1800-square foot rain garden, which the students will help plant with 500 native plants like Blue Wild Indigo, Black-Eyed Susan and Wild Strawberries. (Event details below).
The rain garden at Chalmers School is a part of the Forward Chicago program, launched to foster greening activities in neighborhoods surrounding the city’s proposed Olympics and Paralympics venues. Chalmers School sits in the West Side Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale, across from Douglas Park, a proposed cycling venue for the 2016 Olympics.
“These projects will create lasting, real environmental benefits in neighborhoods near to proposed Olympic sites,” said Kathryn Tholin, CNT’s CEO. “We are pleased to be partnering with Baxter and Chalmers School to increase neighborhood open space and contribute to a healthy environment for students and the community.”
In addition to its location in a designated 21st Century Green Center of Chicago’s Olympic bid, Chicago Public Schools had reported that Chalmers’ parking lot and playground were plagued with drainage problems. This rain garden, like a recent CNT project at St. Margaret Mary Church, will improve drainage at the school by replacing impervious asphalt with a native plant rain garden that will help to absorb and filter stormwater runoff.
“This garden demonstrates the tremendous opportunity to capture rain drops where they fall, expanding the City’s and Chicago Public Schools’ commitment to utilizing green infrastructure both for stormwater management and its community and educational benefits”, said Steve Wise, CNT’s Natural Resources Program Director. “Schools around Chicago are unpaving the way to a healthier city. Re-establishing natural planted areas creates a learning landscape for students and, by keeping rain water flowing into the ground on site, takes pressure off of the sewer network to help prevent local flooding and combined sewer overflows.”
The Chalmers School rain garden is the most recent in a series of school-based green infrastructure projects for CNT, initiating projects that re-open urban spaces by removing concrete to restoring functioning landscapes and clean water in the city, the region and beyond. See pictures from the recent removal of the asphalt at CNT’s Flickr page.
The Prince Charitable Trusts also provided funding support for this project.
Event Details
Where: Thomas Chalmers Specialty School
2745 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
When: Planting will take place 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM and 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
About Forward Chicago
Launched by The Climate Group to engage Chicago’s leading businesses in public-private partnerships to implement selected climate initiatives. Participating companies work with Forward Chicago partners to sponsor initiatives within the newly-designated 21st Century Green Centers, the areas immediately surrounding the city’s proposed Olympic and Paralympic venues. These activities will help mitigate climate change while providing residents and businesses with tangible adaptation measures. Moving forward, the Green Centers will serve as hubs for low-carbon economic growth and neighborhood development.
About CNT
Since 1978, CNT has been a leader in promoting urban sustainability – the more effective use of existing resources and community assets to improve the health of natural systems and the wealth of people, today and in the future. CNT’s Natural Resources program focuses on Green Infrastructure; a stormwater management approach that saves money, supports sustainability, and more efficiently uses limited financial and natural resources. By capturing raindrops where they fall, Green Infrastructure utilizes the absorbing and filtering abilities of plants, trees and soil to protect water quality, reduce polluted runoff, and recharge groundwater supplies while reconnecting people with their local environment. CNT is one of eight nonprofits selected from around the world to receive a 2009 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
More information at www.cnt.org/natural-resources
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Study compares emissions of city, suburban households
[Chicago, IL] At first glance, cities may appear to be a big source of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. But new research by the nonprofit Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), which compares greenhouse gas emissions of city and suburban households, yields some surprising results.
CNT looked at emissions of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, stemming from household vehicle travel in 55 metropolitan areas across the U.S. When measured on a per household basis, it found that the transportation-related emissions of people living in cities and compact neighborhoods can be nearly 70% less than those living in suburbs. See how this compares in your region.
“Cities are more location-efficient – meaning key destinations are closer to where people live and work,” said Scott Bernstein, CNT’s President. “They require less time, money, fuel and greenhouse gas emissions for residents to meet their everyday travel needs. People can walk, bike, car-share, take public transit. So residents of cities and compact communities generate less CO2 per household than people who live in more dispersed communities, like many suburbs and outlying areas.
“If you’re deciding where to live, consider moving to an urban area. You’ll help fight global warming by emitting less CO2. And you’re likely to drive less, so you’ll spend less on transportation, saving up to $5,000 annually.”
CNT’s research shows that average transportation costs vary greatly depending on location, from a low of 14% of area household median income in transit-rich, compact communities, to highs of 28% or more in exurban areas where employment, retail, and other amenities are more dispersed.
CNT focused on vehicle travel as a source of emissions, since research shows that transportation accounts for 28% of all greenhouse gases in the U.S.1 Its work compares the conventional per-acre analysis of greenhouse gas emissions due to vehicle travel with a new per-household view in each metropolitan area it studied. The results suggest that, due to their density and transportation alternatives, cities are a central part of the climate change solution.
The research is an outgrowth of CNT’s Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, which examines several aspects of location efficiency. One is the true cost of housing when household transportation costs are factored in, which vary widely by location. Together, transportation and housing can account for more than 60% of annual household expenses for some working families living in outlying areas – significantly impacting their cost of living and quality of life. The site also illuminates the environmental cost of housing location, which includes impacts like household carbon dioxide emissions.
Since its launch a year ago, the H+TTM Affordability Index has been expanded to show current CO2 maps, as well as the impact of location and gasoline costs on household budgets between the years 2000 and 2008. It has also been redesigned and enhanced for ease of use and data access.
Founded in 1978, CNT (www.cnt.org) is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that works nationally to advance urban sustainability by researching, inventing and testing strategies that use resources more efficiently and equitably. Its programs focus on climate, energy, natural resources, transportation, and community development. CNT is one of eight nonprofits selected from around the world to be recognized by a 2009 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
12007 data per the U.S. EPA National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
CHICAGO, IL - The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) was recognized today as one of only eight organizations from around the world to receive the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. CNT has pioneered new approaches to urban problems that use resources more efficiently, reduce costs for households and communities, and improve the environment. The award recognizes organizations that are “highly creative and effective, have made an extraordinary impact in their fields and are helping to address some of the world’s most challenging problems.”
“The MacArthur Foundation has a long history of supporting organizations around the world like these that demonstrate the creativity, drive, and vision to make the world more just and peaceful,” said MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton. “These organizations may be small but their impact is tremendous. From protecting human rights to improving urban neighborhoods to conserving biodiversity, they are blazing new paths and finding fresh solutions to some of our most difficult challenges.”
The Center for Neighborhood Technology is an innovative and creative organization that has maintained a strong focus on sustainability for over 30 years,” said Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. “The new technologies and ideas CNT has developed have kept Illinois at the forefront of green innovation, and this award is a fitting tribute.”
Many of the priorities in President Obama’s stimulus package, including green infrastructure, residential energy efficiency, use and development of a smart electricity grid, are based on innovations developed by CNT and similar organizations.
CNT has grown from its beginnings in 1978 as a small storefront operation into a nationally recognized organization with over 50 employees. Today, CNT is a creative think-and-do tank that combines rigorous research with effective solutions that promote more livable and sustainable urban communities and contribute to national urban policy. Its research and programs focus on climate change, energy, transportation and community development, and natural resources.
Pioneering practical innovations
“CNT recognized early on that neighborhood revitalization can be cost effective, while enhancing the urban and broader environment,” said Scott Bernstein, President and Founder. “This award enables us to continue to demonstrate that being resource-efficient—tapping the many assets urban neighborhoods provide—can actually lower the cost of living and increase household and community wealth.”
“CNT demonstrates a unique combination of vision, high-quality analysis, and the ability to implement effective programs,” said Adele Simmons, President of the Global Philanthropy Partnership. “Rarely do you find all three in one organization.”
CNT is driven by the notion that making cities work—for the benefit of the people who live in them and for the health of the planet—is particularly critical at this time. Livable, workable, efficient cities are a key part of the answer to climate change. Because of their transportation networks and density, cities are already environmentally efficient, though there is room for improvement—through transportation and communication networks that reduce the need to drive, buildings that are energy efficient and growth that is connected to transit. And each of these measures reduces the cost of living for residents.
Using its extensive research capabilities, CNT developed the Housing and Transportation Affordability Index, an online tool that for the first time quantifies the impact of transportation costs on housing affordability for 54 metropolitan areas across the country. Both U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood cited CNT’s Index recently during their Congressional testimony to support a new interagency partnership between their departments.
“CNT’s role is unique and its impact is pronounced,” said Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, which supported CNT’s work on the Index. “It has successfully bridged the gap between innovative practice and smart policy on transportation, housing, energy, climate and a host of other domestic policies. This is a well-deserved honor for decades of quality, provocative, effective work.”
CNT has taken its research and analysis on urban sustainability from Chicago to around the world. In 2008, CNT prepared a first-ever study of location efficiency for Greater London which Prince Charles termed “definitive.”
“Its roots in Chicago region have allowed it to beta test new sustainability tools on the ground that have then gone on to have national and international impact. In this urban century, CNT’s insistent focus on a sustainability rooted in community engagement and place is vital,” said Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive of The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. “The strong partnership that The Prince’s Foundation for the built Environment has had with CNT has been one of mutual learning and reinforcement. The recognition by the MacArthur Foundation will enable CNT to build on its strengths, and will address the critical need for a solid platform from which to launch its social ventures and game changing tools.”
Advancing affordable and efficient communities
“Building a green city takes more than leadership from city government—it takes strong partners in the community,” said Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer for the City of Chicago. “CNT has been and continues to be a valuable partner in the development and implementation of Chicago’s Climate Action Plan. Their in-depth analysis, along with their experience in implementing programs in transportation and energy, effectively demonstrate how and why cities are the solution to climate change.”
“CNT understands and practices the notion that environmental sustainability must be tied to the economic health of low-income communities,” said Steven McCullough, President and CEO of Bethel New Life, Inc., a nonprofit organization revitalizing communities on Chicago’s West Side. “Its partnership with Bethel New Life over the past 30 years has enabled cutting-edge investments in neighborhoods like West Garfield Park.
“CNT has been with us as we worked with community residents in educating, planning and implementing projects, like transit-oriented investment, that sustain our community’s environment, economic and social base.”
CNT’s programs in sustainable development have had considerable impact:
- I-GOSM, a car-sharing program that serves 30 neighborhoods in Chicago, Evanston and Oak Park, has attracted 12,000 members since it was launched in 2002.
- CNT Energy’s Energy Smart Pricing Plan, which helps residential consumers cut energy costs and reduce their peak energy use through hourly price signals, was adopted by ComEd and other electricity providers in the Midwest.
- The Energy Savers Program offers a one-stop shop for energy audits and loans to finance improvements that substantially reduce natural gas and electricity use in multifamily buildings. Reductions in energy consumption lower the operating costs of rental properties, keeping them affordable for the long term.
“We are truly grateful to the MacArthur Foundation for recognizing the importance of our issues, and for enabling us to build our capacity to respond to the growing interest in our work,” Kathryn Tholin, CNT’s Chief Executive Officer. “As energy efficiency, housing, and sustainable development move to the center of national attention, CNT will continue to provide reliable analysis, creative research, and innovative ideas that have been tested in practice to build more livable and sustainable urban communities.”
CNT will use the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions to expand its research capacities, reach a wider national audience, and build its operating reserve.
Since 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology has been a leader in promoting urban sustainability – the more effective use of existing resources and community assets to improve the health of natural systems and the wealth of people, today and in the future. CNT is a creative think-and-do tank that combines rigorous research with effective solutions. CNT works across disciplines and issues, including transportation and community development, energy, natural resources, and climate change. More information at www.cnt.org.
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. More information is available at www.macfound.org.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Governor Quinn recognizes I-GO and ComEd for their commitment to greening Illinois
CHICAGO—I-GO Car Sharing, a Chicago-based non-profit organization committed to reducing car ownership, transportation costs, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, took another major step toward the future of environmentally sustainable mobility by adding two plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to its citywide fleet. The cars—converted 2009 Toyota Priuses located in the Millennium Park north garage at 201 E. Randolph Street and in the AMLI 900 residential tower garage at 900 S. Clark Street—were generously funded by ComEd.
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Chicago, IL - Today, the Illinois Smart Grid Initiative (ISGI) released “Empowering Consumers through a Modern Electric Grid”, a report on the potential benefits of a modernized electric grid that maps a policy path for achieving those benefits for consumers and the economy. At a time when both President Obama’s Administration and Congress have prioritized electric grid modernization and the jobs potential it holds, Illinois is well positioned to become the national leader in the adoption of a truly consumer-focused smart grid.
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Some Communities Around Chicago Save from Greater Access to Public Transit Activists Call for Action from Governor Quinn
(Chicago, IL) Today Chicago residents celebrate Transportation Freedom Day, the date a typical area household has earned enough to cover its transportation costs for the year. To mark the occasion, transit advocacy groups called for Governor Quinn and Mayor Daley to prioritize investment in transit.
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
For more information contact:
Stephanie Folk, CNT Energy
Phone: (773) 269-4085
E-mail: sfolk@cntenergy.org
Households across Illinois are looking for ways to cut costs, and thousands of Ameren Illinois Utilities customers have found a new way save on electricity. Nearly 4,000 households have signed up for the Power Smart Pricing program, an hourly electricity pricing option offered by the Ameren Illinois Utilities. The program helps participants cut costs both by being smart about both how much electricity they use and when they use it. Since Power Smart Pricing launched in early 2007, participants have saved an average of 10 percent compared with what they would have paid on the standard fixed rate (based on billing results for May 2007 through December 2008).
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
In partnership with CNT and the Center for Housing Policy (CHP), the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing released a report which finds that housing located far from transit and employment centers places a heavy financial strain on working families in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. According to the study, Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington, DC Metropolitan Area, households, region-wide, are spending an average of $23,000 on housing and $13,000 on transportation annually.
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Single Card Allows Rides on CTA and I-GO Car Access
The Chicago Transit Authority and I-GO Car Sharing today launched their joint smart card program - a single card that can be used to gain access to I-GO vehicles and ride the CTA. The program is part of CTA’s continued commitment to promote the use of public transportation by providing additional travel options for commuters.
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