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7/30/2010

Expo Farmdale Approved, Westwood Subway Station, Pasadena Bus-less Sundays, Traffic And Health, & More

Bullet Train Loaded With Spin
Fresno Bee

Congress' Failure To Enact Climate Legislation Makes Transportation Reform More Important Than Ever
Transportation For America

Getting The HSR Poll Right
California High Speed Rail Blog

The Government's Landlord Smartens Up And Goes Green
Fast Company

Keeping Trains On Track: Tel Aviv University Helps Develop Early-Warning Hazard System For The World's Railways
American Friends Of Tel Aviv University Press Release

LA Commuters, Get Ready To Ride Your Bikes
(audio : "CicLAvia comes to Los Angeles and Santa Monica," Brian Taylor, Director, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies; Joe Linton, CicLAvia Board Member)
KCRW Which Way L.A.?

Legislative Analyst Says Prop 26 Increases Budget Deficit By $1 Billion
California Progress Report

Lime Energy Awarded Contract With Los Angeles Metro: Company Will Provide Lighting Upgrade And Uninterrupted Power At Five Metro Stations
MarketWatch

More Evidence That Walkability Is Marketable
Planetizen

New Work Out Plan: Take Public Transit
The City Fix

Pasadena Bus Service To Be Eliminated On Sundays
Pasadena Star-News

Placing A Subway Station In Westwood
LA Observed

Plan A Trip Using Public Transportation (Google rolled out a new version of its transit site that makes it easier to see which parts of the U.S. are Google Transit-capable. Each state now has a little sub-list of regions and the respective transit companies that are a part of Google’s index. Missing, however, is the transit layer, which lets you see routes in all forms of transportation at once. Google added this to its Maps product earlier this month, and says it will be a part of the transit site soon.)
Google Transit

Radically Modernised Bus System Should Be Part Of Solution For London's Transport
Global Urbanist Planning

Regulators Clear Way For Expo Line Completion
Los Angeles Times
CPUC Approves Expo Line Rail Station At Farmdale Avenue
California Public Utilities Commission Press Release

Residents Angry At Council Majority For Backing MTA's Prime Transit Site
Los Angeles Wave

Schwarzenegger Declares California Fiscal Emergency
Reuters

Senator Coburn Puts Federal Transit Safety Bill On Hold
Transportation Nation

This Bus Is Not In Service: The Shrinking Routes Of AC Transit
KALW Crosscurrents

Today On The High-Speed Rail Seesaw...
OC Weekly

Tracking The Hype And Hope Of High-Speed Rail
CityWatch

Using Tolls To Fund Highway Improvements (video)
Fox Business

What Does Transit Do About Traffic Congestion? (Updated)
Human Transit

Why Don't We Have This? (Universal transit passes)
Riding In Riverside

Why Isn't Traffic Reduction A Top Public Health Concern?
StreetsBlog Network