Arriving At Better Road Safety Measures
The City Fix
Before TAP: The 1963 Vision Of Smart-Card Fare Collection And Rapid Transit For L.A. (A look at a very early proposal for TAP-like payment system, Westside rapid transit to Westwood, beautiful vintage illustrations, and more)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Bike Ped Planning (2p. PDF : New wiki website launches October 7)
SCAG
CicLAvia Gearing Up With "I Spy" Urban Contest
Curbed LA
DOT Most Improved Large Federal Agency In Best Places To Work Rankings
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
DTLA! New Boosterism In Downtown Los Angeles
Huffington Post
Editorial: True Air-Rail Travel Has A Future ("The Bob Hope Airport in Burbank has an opportunity to become what LAX never has - the first true rail-accessible airport in the Los Angeles region.")
Los Angeles Daily News
L.A. Transit Officials Release Free iPhone App
Los Angeles Times
Go Metro App
iTunes
LAUSD Reduces Bus Service Due To Budget Cuts ("I mean, who wants to take the Metro bus every single day?")
ABC-7
More Transit = More Jobs: New Report (Transit creates more jobs than highways)
Transportation Equity Network
Full-Text Report: More [Transit] = More Jobs: The Impact Of Increasing Funding For Public Transit (31p. PDF)
University Of Missouri, St. Louis Public Policy Center, Transportation Equity Network
Needed: A Better Way Of Keeping Infrastructure Working Well (Proposes that you can't have good TOD without good T, and because maintenance is based on a calendar and not the objective condition of an asset, it is almost always either too late if a breakdown has occured, or too early and thus wasteful)
New Urban Network
New Ideas For The Troubled Path To Oakland Airport
Transportation Nation
Our Mobile Money Pits: The True Cost Of Cars
StreetsBlog DC
Rail, Intermodal Volume Reach Highest Level This Year
Trucking Info
The Reason Foundation's Unreasonable Highway Report
Infrastructurist
19th Annual Report On The State Highway Systems (109p. PDF)
Reason Foundation
The Smart-Growth Set: How 32-Year Old Google Veteran David Alpert - And His Band Of Bloggers - Are Shaping 21st Century D.C. (Planning nerd bloggers are finding they can have significant influence on planning and development. In Washington, a high-profile example is how a gang of policy and planning bloggers successfully demanded that WMATA partner with Google Transit)
Washington City Paper
SoCal Board Endorses Lower Emission Goals
San Jose Mercury News
TAP Is Being Fixed, But The Turnstile Debacle Will Not Go Away
StreetsBlog LA
Underground Connector Recommended By Metro Staff
Blog Downtown
Regional Connector Transit Corridor Draft EIS/EIR
Metro
Virtual Presence Is Upon Us ("We do not need another inch of freeway and we certainly do not need to squander billions on an idiotic subway beneath Wilshire Boulevard. A 20 mile long subway from downtown L.A. to Santa Monica will serve only 4% of the City of Los Angeles. Is that worth another $10 B in your money?")
CityWatch
West Hollywood General Plan Transit Overlay Unrealistic
WeHo News
Which City Is Best For Biking? (animated infographic)
GOOD
