{"id":1555,"date":"2010-04-26T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2010-05-04T22:41:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T02:41:06","slug":"briefly-noted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/26\/briefly-noted\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly noted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/7000Series.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1556\" title=\"7000Series\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/7000Series.jpg?resize=197%2C134\" alt=\"7000Series\" width=\"197\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some items of note today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Johnson (<a href=\"http:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=5625\" target=\"_blank\">GGW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tracktwentynine.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/7000-series-not-your-fathers-railcar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Track Twenty-Nine<\/a>) takes a closer look at Metro&#8217;s new 7000 series railcars.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/?p=661\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;America&#8217;s Metro&#8217; logo<\/a> seems to have disappeared, and there are opportunities for a longitudinal seating arrangement.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Glaeser looks at the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2010\/20_2_preservation-follies.html\" target=\"_blank\">historic preservation in limiting development<\/a> in New York, and looks at the degree to which that&#8217;s limited housing supply and increased prices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beyonddc.com\/log\/?p=1662\" target=\"_blank\">Get rid of the States<\/a>!\u00a0 Or something along those lines.<\/li>\n<li>Building off some of the ideas Aaron Renn presented yesterday for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanophile.com\/2010\/04\/25\/thoughts-on-a-federal-policy-for-american-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Federal urban policy<\/a> (flexibility!), the <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/04\/26\/u-s-dot-releases-rules-for-tiger-ii-grants-bringing-hud-on-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">DOT released the first round of guidance<\/a> for TIGER II &#8211; more competitive transportation grants, but this time they might be coordinated with HUD and EPA sustainable communities grants &#8211; exciting due to the flexibility and the lack of silos to deal with.<\/li>\n<li>Reconnecting America has more details on sustainable communities (<a href=\"http:\/\/reconnectingamerica.org\/posts\/getting-the-most-from-federal-partnership-for-sustainable-communities\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reconnectingamerica.org\/public\/download\/100426_sustainable_communities_programs\" target=\"_blank\">detailed PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The New York Times has a sweet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/04\/24\/nyregion\/20100424-subway.html?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">interactive map<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/26\/nyregion\/26subway.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on changing subway ridership patterns in NYC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some items of note today: Matt Johnson (GGW, Track Twenty-Nine) takes a closer look at Metro&#8217;s new 7000 series railcars.\u00a0 The &#8216;America&#8217;s Metro&#8217; logo seems to have disappeared, and there are opportunities for a longitudinal seating arrangement. Ed Glaeser looks at the role of historic preservation in limiting development in New York, and looks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[448,205,192,204,459,203,134,206,150,124],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-dc","tag-epa","tag-historic-preservation","tag-hud","tag-metro","tag-metropolitan-governance","tag-new-york","tag-sustainable-communities","tag-transit-maps","tag-us-dot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-p5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}