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Columbus City Council Needs to Hear Your Support of Streetcars!
Columbus Mayor Coleman recently presented a $1 billion capital budget to City Council. Included in that is a $2 million proposal to move forward with the next steps in the downtown Streetcar initiative. This would provide design and engineering work.
Council argued the use of these funds at a public meeting held on Tuesday, April 15. Council members said at that meeting they want to hear more from the public before it votes on this proposal at its May 5 Council Meeting.
Council is purportedly receiving as many as 15 opposing to 1 supporting letters.
If you support Columbus moving forward with the Streetcar, Council members need to hear from you NOW.
We suggest you:
To help you with this effort we are providing the Breakfast announcement, contact information, and some talking points.
Please speak up!
Council needs to hear
Columbus citizens WANT a streetcar!
The Plan discusses $14.8 billion in transportation priorities and projects planned by the year 2030! Public Open House 4 - 7 p.m., Thursday, April 3, 2008 Presentation at 6:30 p.m. RSVP
Debra Crosby, 614-233-4145, or visit www.morpc.org
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A public radio project helps listeners understand the forces altering America's landscape, and how individuals and communities are trying to wrest back control.
Middlebury, VT -- A groundbreaking radio series examining the impacts of land policy on people and communities begins airing today on National Public Radio’s acclaimed afternoon news program All Things Considered.
The first episode of Shifting Ground looks at a community in Nevada that’s trying to save its rural character in the face of suburban growth. In this story, the central figure is a donkey. The animal’s braying landed its owners in court for violating a noise ordinance, and a verdict against the animal sparked a community uprising in defense of livestock ownership. It’s a small story – of one donkey, one community – but the larger issue should resonate with listeners wherever they live: How can a community save its essential character as new people, with new values, move in?
An award-winning author and journalist, Shifting Ground producer David Baron has worked in public radio for more than 20 years, previously as science and environment correspondent for NPR, and science editor for the Public Radio International-BBC program The World. His book, The Beast in the Garden, explores the growing conflict between people and wildlife in suburban America.
Although the occasional reports will deal with broad themes, they will address those themes through compelling stories of real people confronting real land-use decisions, and it will use sophisticated storytelling and sound-rich production of the sort that has made NPR famous.
Shifting Ground reveals the difficult tradeoffs that planning inevitably involves, providing a glimpse of what America’s future landscape could look like and how cities and towns are trying to shape that future. “I hope, over time, this growing compilation of stories will serve as a resource for citizens, educators, community organizers and anyone else interested in land use issues,” Baron said.
Future Shifting Ground stories will be broadcast on All Things Considered in the weeks and months ahead. The radio series and supplemental material will be archived on the Shifting Ground website, http://www.shifting-ground.com and will be available for listening soon after the broadcast.
Shifting Ground is made possible with support from the Orton Family Foundation and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
January 24, 2008
On the heels of the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) announcing its 2008 Action Plan, All Aboard Ohio has introduced an on-line petition to show support for rail development. The goal is to forward the link to this on-line petition to every email address in Ohio, leading up to its Legislative Summit on April 30th.
Please take a moment of your time to visit the petition site to learn more about the ORDC 2008 Action Plan and consider signing the petition. The link to the petition can be found here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/OhioHubPlan/
Also consider adding a link to the petition on your websites, blogs, or other means to spread this important message.
Signatures will be presented to the legislature at All Aboard Ohio's 4th Annual Rail/Transit Legislative Summit, set for Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Details for the event will be released soon - check back later for details. In the meantime, save the date for Wednesday, April 30th, 2008!
January 2008 - Catch Up with Our New Newsletter!
>> Please see our Calendar for upcoming meetings and events.
>> Sept. 7, 2007 - It wasn't in the print edition, but here is what Tim Doulin wrote for his on-line "Cranky Commuter" blog on the Dispatch website... and note that three 1KCO'ers are quoted. >"Cranky Commuter" blog