Burbank Bike Master Plan Meeting Last Week-Amazing Stuff!
LA Bicycle Coalition
California wants $4.7 billion in high-speed rail stimulus - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has applied for more than half the $8 billion allotted for high-speed rail. State officials say California's plan is the most shovel-ready
CS Monitor
Car Is Still King at Alt-Car Expo
LA Streetsblog
Gold Line Check: Three Days In, Opening a Month Away?
Curbed LA
High Speed Rail Money Needs To Go To Smaller Projects Too
The Infrastructurist
Is a Bigger Transportation Bill — This Year — Back on the Table?
LA Streetsblog
L.A. Port Approves EIR For Tourist-Community Waterfront Plan
Cunningham Report
Lower gas prices, economy blamed for drop in Metrolink ridership
Press Enterprise
Metro Tells Motorists Don't Cross Us - Sheriff's deputies and Los Angeles police have been actively patrolling grade crossings
NBC News
More Public Meetings about Public Transit: A Train from Downtown to LAX to the Southbay to Long Beach?
LAist
Our future rides on public transportation
USDOT Fast Lane
Public Private Partnerships: Another One Bites The Dust
The Infrastructurist
Rail's 150-Year Wait for Safety - Positive Train Control — technology that adheres to the simple premise that there should only be one train to one track — is still years away from full implementation in the U.S.
Miller McCune
10/06/2009
Transportation Headlines for Tuesday October 6, 2009
An Ideal Industry No More - It wasn't long ago that a career in international trade was seen as a ticket to financial success, job stability and a secure retirement
Press Telegram
Catching a Bus with a BlackBerry - Mobile apps and social media are being tweaked to serve transportation needs
Governing
CTA Official Appointed Chief Counsel to the Federal Transit Administration
Chicago Press Release
Dan Walters: California's highways are in a sad state
Sacramento Bee
Grant Opportunity Provides Chance to Preserve L.A. County’s Historic Transportation Corridors
LA Streetsblog
How Should Planners Promote Livable Communities?
National Journal – Transportation
LAX FlyAway Service to Expand to Orange County
LAist
Metrolink adds video cameras to locomotives - Agency spends $1 million to record engineers in response to findings from 2008 Chatsworth crash
LA Times
Metrolink drivers to be monitored by video camera
Whittier Daily News
Metrolink Safety and Passenger Rail in Southern California - Reply to a Los Angeles Times report
RAILPAC
New GPS Units Intended to Keep DASH Buses On Track
BlogDowntown
Renewed Interest in ITS Being Driven by Environmental and Safety Concerns, According to ABI Research
Business Wire
Reseda Boulevard Bike Lanes: One Mile Done, Four to Go
LA StreetsBlog
Sandag Seeks Share of Bullet Train Funding
San Diego Business Journal
Press Telegram
Catching a Bus with a BlackBerry - Mobile apps and social media are being tweaked to serve transportation needs
Governing
CTA Official Appointed Chief Counsel to the Federal Transit Administration
Chicago Press Release
Dan Walters: California's highways are in a sad state
Sacramento Bee
Grant Opportunity Provides Chance to Preserve L.A. County’s Historic Transportation Corridors
LA Streetsblog
How Should Planners Promote Livable Communities?
National Journal – Transportation
LAX FlyAway Service to Expand to Orange County
LAist
Metrolink adds video cameras to locomotives - Agency spends $1 million to record engineers in response to findings from 2008 Chatsworth crash
LA Times
Metrolink drivers to be monitored by video camera
Whittier Daily News
Metrolink Safety and Passenger Rail in Southern California - Reply to a Los Angeles Times report
RAILPAC
New GPS Units Intended to Keep DASH Buses On Track
BlogDowntown
Renewed Interest in ITS Being Driven by Environmental and Safety Concerns, According to ABI Research
Business Wire
Reseda Boulevard Bike Lanes: One Mile Done, Four to Go
LA StreetsBlog
Sandag Seeks Share of Bullet Train Funding
San Diego Business Journal
10/05/2009
Transportation Headlines for Monday October 5, 2009
Ara Najarian: Let’s Get Along
I Will Ride
Archiving Angeles (AA): Taxi!
LA Metblogs
Calif. Supreme Court: Shifting transit funds illegal
Metro Magazine
CA Submits Second Federal HSR Stimulus Application - Up to $10 Billion Could Be Headed Our Way
California High Speed Rail Blog
Chugging along: Metrolink
Santa Clarita Signal
D.C. Metro launches reading Web tool
Metro Magazine
DOT: road job loss would have been worse without ARRA
TheTrucker
Express Bus Hall of Fame: Metro Express 460
Simons Den
Group Claims Expo Rail Line Is ‘Deadly’
Santa Monica Dispatch
Guest View: End 710 debate once and for all
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
High-speed rail plan may alter landscape
Daily Breeze
I'll Be Working on the Railroad: California's Bullet Train Gets on Track
LA Weekly
'Inland port' drives industrial building
Victorville Daily Press
LADOT & Downtown DASH Now on Twitter
LAist
Long Beach’s Leap Toward Livability – Part 1 of 2
LA Streetsblog
No. 1 with a bullet train - California's high-speed rail plans should be first in line for federal transportation stimulus funds
LA Times
Omnitrans giving road-weary consumers chance to go green
San Bernardino Sun
Our View: Gold Line taking bidders
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Public weighs in on Crenshaw Corridor transit options
KPCC 89.3
San Bernardino - Projects bode better times
San Bernardino Sun
State seeks $4.7-billion high-speed rail grant - Schwarzenegger says state and local funds would match the federal money
LA Times
Twitter Gives Major Boost for High Speed Rail
Mile By Mile
U.S. Senator Inouye Puts Villaraigosa, MTA on Notice
LA Weekly
I Will Ride
Archiving Angeles (AA): Taxi!
LA Metblogs
Calif. Supreme Court: Shifting transit funds illegal
Metro Magazine
CA Submits Second Federal HSR Stimulus Application - Up to $10 Billion Could Be Headed Our Way
California High Speed Rail Blog
Chugging along: Metrolink
Santa Clarita Signal
D.C. Metro launches reading Web tool
Metro Magazine
DOT: road job loss would have been worse without ARRA
TheTrucker
Express Bus Hall of Fame: Metro Express 460
Simons Den
Group Claims Expo Rail Line Is ‘Deadly’
Santa Monica Dispatch
Guest View: End 710 debate once and for all
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
High-speed rail plan may alter landscape
Daily Breeze
I'll Be Working on the Railroad: California's Bullet Train Gets on Track
LA Weekly
'Inland port' drives industrial building
Victorville Daily Press
LADOT & Downtown DASH Now on Twitter
LAist
Long Beach’s Leap Toward Livability – Part 1 of 2
LA Streetsblog
No. 1 with a bullet train - California's high-speed rail plans should be first in line for federal transportation stimulus funds
LA Times
Omnitrans giving road-weary consumers chance to go green
San Bernardino Sun
Our View: Gold Line taking bidders
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Public weighs in on Crenshaw Corridor transit options
KPCC 89.3
San Bernardino - Projects bode better times
San Bernardino Sun
State seeks $4.7-billion high-speed rail grant - Schwarzenegger says state and local funds would match the federal money
LA Times
Twitter Gives Major Boost for High Speed Rail
Mile By Mile
U.S. Senator Inouye Puts Villaraigosa, MTA on Notice
LA Weekly
10/02/2009
Transportation Headlines for Friday October 2, 2009
Addendum to Crenshaw Corridor scoping meeting
MetroRiderLA
Diesel emissions down drastically at ports of L.A., Long Beach - The year-old program to replace old cargo trucks has made tremendous progress, with an 80% decline in emissions expected by the end of 2010 -- a year ahead of schedule
LA Times
Doug Failing leaving Caltrans for executive position at the MTA - He has been District 7 director since 2002, serving Los Angeles and Ventura counties. In a letter to staff, he said he is resigning because of financial reasons
LA Times
Doug Failing Resigns from Caltrans and Moves to Metro
SoapBoxLA
Feds want $1 million back from Indio - Agency: City broke laws by not allowing for public input on interchange project
Desert Sun
Gold Line Testing Begins Sunday
Eastside Sun
Good Problem With Housing Near Transit: It’s Almost Too Popular
Streetsblog
Has Metro Lost Its Train of Thought?
CityWatch
Heads Up! L.A. Triathlon to Bring Street Closures on Sunday (Plus Best Spots to Watch the Race)
LAist
LA’s Bike Plan: Lacks Vision, Teeth
SoapBoxLA
L.A. County MTA Board support H.R. 2746 (Carnahan Bill)
Labor Community Strategy Center
LA, Long Beach Win EPA Grants
Journal of Commerce
L.A.'s Mass Transition - How the city will fix its traffic jam
The Big Money/Slate
Mayor Villaraigosa, labor unions celebrate arrival of Ansaldobreda
KPCC 89.3
NBC Universal releases retooled plan to add housing development to back lot - The studio tries to address concerns of neighbors and critics that emerged after the proposal was announced three years ago
LA Times
Port Festival To Showcase Green Initiatives, Technologies
Grunion Gazette
Public hearing on MTA’s Crenshaw Transit Corridor set for Tuesday, Oct. 6th
The Argonaut
So many rail agencies, so little service - Metrolink safety is a problem, but the deeper issue is Southern California's hodgepodge of agencies that do not coordinate with each other
LA Times
State court ruling could mean billions going back to transit
Mercury News
California Transit Association: Press Release
Stimulus Recipients Begin Sending Spending Data to OMB
Government Technology
This Weekend: The AltCar Expo in Santa Monica
LA Streetsblog
TOD Poised to Push Past the Recession
Metro Magazine
Transit Board Hears Route Debate
Grunion Gazette
Transportation secretary promises federal action against distracted driving - At a summit focusing on texting, cellphone use and other distractions while driving, Ray LaHood says strong laws and personal responsibility are needed to combat this 'menace to society
LA Times
Universal Studios to get $3 billion NBC makeover - PROJECT: Media giant to spend $100 million on transit as part of redevelopment
Daily News
Urban rail is a new engine for development - Richmond, B.C., makes the most of new Canada Line with 'mini-villages.' Will other cities follow the same track?
Globe and Mail
MetroRiderLA
Diesel emissions down drastically at ports of L.A., Long Beach - The year-old program to replace old cargo trucks has made tremendous progress, with an 80% decline in emissions expected by the end of 2010 -- a year ahead of schedule
LA Times
Doug Failing leaving Caltrans for executive position at the MTA - He has been District 7 director since 2002, serving Los Angeles and Ventura counties. In a letter to staff, he said he is resigning because of financial reasons
LA Times
Doug Failing Resigns from Caltrans and Moves to Metro
SoapBoxLA
Feds want $1 million back from Indio - Agency: City broke laws by not allowing for public input on interchange project
Desert Sun
Gold Line Testing Begins Sunday
Eastside Sun
Good Problem With Housing Near Transit: It’s Almost Too Popular
Streetsblog
Has Metro Lost Its Train of Thought?
CityWatch
Heads Up! L.A. Triathlon to Bring Street Closures on Sunday (Plus Best Spots to Watch the Race)
LAist
LA’s Bike Plan: Lacks Vision, Teeth
SoapBoxLA
L.A. County MTA Board support H.R. 2746 (Carnahan Bill)
Labor Community Strategy Center
LA, Long Beach Win EPA Grants
Journal of Commerce
L.A.'s Mass Transition - How the city will fix its traffic jam
The Big Money/Slate
Mayor Villaraigosa, labor unions celebrate arrival of Ansaldobreda
KPCC 89.3
NBC Universal releases retooled plan to add housing development to back lot - The studio tries to address concerns of neighbors and critics that emerged after the proposal was announced three years ago
LA Times
Port Festival To Showcase Green Initiatives, Technologies
Grunion Gazette
Public hearing on MTA’s Crenshaw Transit Corridor set for Tuesday, Oct. 6th
The Argonaut
So many rail agencies, so little service - Metrolink safety is a problem, but the deeper issue is Southern California's hodgepodge of agencies that do not coordinate with each other
LA Times
State court ruling could mean billions going back to transit
Mercury News
California Transit Association: Press Release
Stimulus Recipients Begin Sending Spending Data to OMB
Government Technology
This Weekend: The AltCar Expo in Santa Monica
LA Streetsblog
TOD Poised to Push Past the Recession
Metro Magazine
Transit Board Hears Route Debate
Grunion Gazette
Transportation secretary promises federal action against distracted driving - At a summit focusing on texting, cellphone use and other distractions while driving, Ray LaHood says strong laws and personal responsibility are needed to combat this 'menace to society
LA Times
Universal Studios to get $3 billion NBC makeover - PROJECT: Media giant to spend $100 million on transit as part of redevelopment
Daily News
Urban rail is a new engine for development - Richmond, B.C., makes the most of new Canada Line with 'mini-villages.' Will other cities follow the same track?
Globe and Mail
10/01/2009
Transportation Headlines for Thursday October 1, 2009
Bikers try to avoid being 5th wheel on streets - City officials strive to make Long Beach ‘the most bike-friendly city in the country
Daily 49er
California gasoline use rises for first time since 2006
Sacramento Bee
Golden Pylon Awards put a positive spin on traffic - At a luncheon in L.A. sponsored by regional transit agencies, TV and radio traffic reporters are acknowledged for their work
LA Times
L.A. mayor praises planned light-rail car plant - Villaraigosa says the AnsaldoBreda facility, which begins construction next summer at the earliest, will attract 'decent middle-class jobs' and clean-technology firms to the city
LA Times
Latest L.A. subway and light rail news — with a little NYC envy
Green LA Girl
Living Streets Tenets
Green LA Transportation Working Group
Mayor Villaraigosa, union workers celebrate AnsaldoBreda deal with MTA
KPCC 89.3
Metrolink ‘cab cars’ set for November delivery
Inland Valley News
Metro Looking to Improve 2nd Busiest Station, AKA Pedestrian Hell
LAist
More Light Rail?
South Central Bungalow
More than 5,000 trucks meet Clean Trucks Program standards at ports
Daily Breeze
New Timetables Released for Gold Line, Includes Eastside Extension
LAist
Rail car manufacturing plant will create more than 2,200 jobs, mayor says
Daily News
Supporters of High Speed Rail to Rally at Union Station Friday
LAist
Testing of light rail trains on Metro Gold Line starts Sunday
Daily News
Daily 49er
California gasoline use rises for first time since 2006
Sacramento Bee
Golden Pylon Awards put a positive spin on traffic - At a luncheon in L.A. sponsored by regional transit agencies, TV and radio traffic reporters are acknowledged for their work
LA Times
L.A. mayor praises planned light-rail car plant - Villaraigosa says the AnsaldoBreda facility, which begins construction next summer at the earliest, will attract 'decent middle-class jobs' and clean-technology firms to the city
LA Times
Latest L.A. subway and light rail news — with a little NYC envy
Green LA Girl
Living Streets Tenets
Green LA Transportation Working Group
Mayor Villaraigosa, union workers celebrate AnsaldoBreda deal with MTA
KPCC 89.3
Metrolink ‘cab cars’ set for November delivery
Inland Valley News
Metro Looking to Improve 2nd Busiest Station, AKA Pedestrian Hell
LAist
More Light Rail?
South Central Bungalow
More than 5,000 trucks meet Clean Trucks Program standards at ports
Daily Breeze
New Timetables Released for Gold Line, Includes Eastside Extension
LAist
Rail car manufacturing plant will create more than 2,200 jobs, mayor says
Daily News
Supporters of High Speed Rail to Rally at Union Station Friday
LAist
Testing of light rail trains on Metro Gold Line starts Sunday
Daily News
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