Summaries for: Transportation
Saint’s Guide to Advocacy Pyramid for Airport Expansion – in Airport World
Airport World, the magazine for the Airports Council International, has published a step by step guide to winning the support of local communities, as a vital first step in guaranteeing the success of airport capital projects, written by Jesse McKnight, executive vice president of The Saint Consulting Group.
The article in the March issue of the ...
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Linear Land Use Projects Are Toughest to Win Local Approval
(This article first appeared in a monthly newsletter which Mike Saint publishes to all clients and friends of The Saint Consulting Group, and it triggered a series of related land use posts. If you would like to receive an email copy of The Saint Newsletter, contact mindus@tscg.biz) By P. Michael Saint, CEO, The Saint Consulting Group ...
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Anti-Sprawl Group Calls San Diego Transportation Plan ‘Disastrous’
San Diego’s Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) has drawn fire from a group that called it illegal and environmentally disastrous. The Cleveland National Forest Foundation also offered an alternative plan that would implement all the mass-transit proposals in the 40-year RTP during the coming 10 years.
They’ve dubbed their proposal the “50-10” transit plan.
The Regional Transportation Plan ...
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Demonstrating Support for Linear Land Use Projects
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group Because linear land use projects offer all of the negative impacts of development while providing few of the economic benefits to local communities, it is hard to identify stakeholders. By linear land use I mean any project that is long, narrow and passes through many communities–think: high speed ...
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Smart, green growth and walkable urban places are killing the ‘burbs
Times have changed, writes Kaid Benfield in The Atlantic magazine, and the key assumptions that encouraged decades of urban sprawl no longer hold true. Welcome to the era of smart, green growth. In a column headlined, "How History Killed the Suburbs", Benfield says the main assumptions for urban sprawl - unlimited land, cars, roads and ...
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Why no long-term funding for U.S. transportation construction?
By Christopher Hopkins Senior Vice President, Aggregates and MiningThe Saint Consulting Group For a bill that is said to have bi-partisan overwhelming support, why is little or no progress being made on the reauthorization of the SAFETEA-LU bill, which expired in September 2009? Recently Congress passed another temporary extension of the bill ...
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Linear Land Use Projects Hardest to Get Approved By Local Officials
(This article first appeared in a monthly newsletter which Mike Saint publishes to all clients and friends of The Saint Consulting Group. If you would like to receive an email copy, contact mindus@tscg.biz) By P. Michael Saint, CEO, The Saint Consulting Group People ask me what is the hardest kind of land use to permit? Our ...
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Opponents doubt business case for £17 billion UK high-speed rail link
The economic case for spending £17 billion to build a high-speed rail link from London to Birmingham is losing support from local and county politicians in a UK economy facing multi-billion-pound budget cuts, high unemployment and inflation.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that critics believe Prime Minister David Cameron's High Speed 2 plan -- to link ...
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Saint Consulting Project Featured in US News & World Report
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
US News & World Report recently recognized Honolulu as one of the 10 best cities for public transportation due to the city’s bus system and proposed 20-mile rail transit system (see “The 10 Best Cities for Public Transportation,” http://bit.ly/hdxTxC).
In the fall of 2008, Saint ...
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Do not skip political due diligence – essential step in airport expansion
By Jesse McKnight, Executive Vice President, The Saint Consulting Group
(Editor’s note: this article on airport expansion explains the key role political due diligence plays in identifying and preparing for big issues facing controversial projects across all property sectors)
The biggest mistake airport operators — or developers of any potentially controversial project — make is launching expansion ...
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