ADA Essentials For Transit Board Members: Fundamentals Of The Americans With Disabilities Act And Transit Public Policy (76p. PDF)
Easter Seals Project Action; APTA
Agriculture Secretary: We'll Boost Ethanol For Transpo Fuel
Transportation Nation
California Bullet Train Agency Can't Document Details Of Officials' Foreign Trips: The Travel Was Funded By Governments Of Nations Whose Companies May Seek Contracts On The Massive Project. Disclosure Of Information On Such Trips Is Generally Required By State Ethics Regulations
Los Angeles Times
CicLAvia Follow Up (videos and testimonials from 10/10/10)
KCRW Shortcuts
Could Common Design Standards Bring Back U.S. Transit Manufacturing?
StreetsBlog DC
Critic's Notebook: There's A Growing Disconnect On A Better-Connected L.A.: The Movement For More Mass Transit Meets Constant Resistance From Opponents Who View Projects Through A Narrow, Car-Centric Lens. Just Look At The Purple Line Subway Debate
Los Angeles Times
Even Portland's Model Transit System Has Labor Disputes
StreetsBlog DC
HSR And Property Values
California High Speed Rail Blog
LA Live: Really, ULI? (a look at the Urban Land Institute's dubious award to LA Live)
California Planning & Development Report
Metro Staff Stalls Decision On Beverly Hills Alignment (p. 1, 11)
Beverly Hills Courier
New Report Shows States Want To Cut Infrastructure Spending
Infrastructurist
Ninth Annual Southern California Transportation Summit (Friday, October 29, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim)
Mobility 21: The Southern California Transportation Coalition
No Buses, Please: How The Crenshaw Line Might Connect To LAX
Curbed LA
Obama: Infrastructure A Top Priority ("Obama's Columbus Day plea was splashy, but it met with a collective yawn from Capitol Hill and an outright rebuff from Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., who is slated to chair the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee if Republicans win control of the House next year." Top experts weight in on what's next for infrastructure)
National Journal Transportation Blog
Opinion: L.A.'s Crooked Heart: Downtown, The Streets Lead Not To The Cardinal Points Of The Compass But To The Uncertain Spaces In Between
Los Angeles Times
Out Of Touch Critics Knock TIGER; And We Launch A New Interactive Map Of Winners
Transportation For America
Plainclothes Sheriff's Deputies Patrol The City's Transit System
Los Angeles Daily News
Public Transit In The Crosshairs: Why Anti-Transportation Elections Are Good For Infrastructure
AltTransport
Ridley-Thomas Wants "Subjective" Analysis When Determining Grade Crossings ("The proposal would greatly increase the power of neighborhoods in deciding the design of grade-crossings in their community. Some rail advocates worry that the motion would effectively derail the Measure R light rail projects.")
StreetsBlog LA
RTD's (And Metro's) Summer Fun Bus: Line #460 (history of bus service between Los Angeles and Disneyland, as well as Anaheim service to L.A. dating back to 1916)
More Than Red Cars
School Board Gets Tough With MTA: Members Of The BHUSD School Board Vow Legal Action Against Any MTA Plans To Tunnel Under Our Homes And High School
Beverly Hills Patch
The Selfish Automobile (interesting data showing why cars are the most space-intensive, least cost-effective way to get around)
Planetizen
Subway Extension To Avoid Houses & Schools (Beverly Hills alignment)
Canyon News
Subway Foes & Transit Boosters: Just Growing Farther Apart?
Los Angeles Times
The Subway In Pictures (slideshow : 100 years of fantastic photos from the New York subway)
New York Times
Time-Based Versus Distance-Based Fares
The City Fix
Evaluation Of Time And Distance-Based Fare Policies (13p. PDF : "Staff reviewed the current pricing strategies of 244 North American transit properties from data collected by the American Public Transportation Association.")
Metro Operations Committee Report
Traffic Accidents Are Top Killer Of U.S. Travelers Abroad
USA Today
Valley Motorists Set To Pay $29 Million Bad-Air Penalty ("The decision, first of its kind in the nation, would add $12 to vehicle registration fees in the Valley beginning next year -- if air-quality activists don't successfully challenge it in court.")
Fresno Bee
Voices From the Rail-Volution (video : interviews with an assortment of conference attendees)
StreetFilms
Walk Score Can't Walk The Walk
Conservative Planner
When Voting For The Lesser Of Two Evils Could Save A Transit System
Transport Politic
The World's First "Transit Appliance" (video : "It can deliver real-time transit arrival estimates to a display in your home, coffee shop, library or, well, anywhere frequented by transit users.")
StreetsFilms
