Today's Headlines - more at Metro

11/15/2010

Expo & Real Estate, 5th & Flower Station, Gas Tax Hike Proposals, Transit And Sprawl, Taxi Safety & More

Arcadia To Vote On Updated General Plan ("City officials aim to set the stage for downtown revitalization by allowing residents to live in traditionally commercial areas around the future Gold Line station.")
Pasadena Star-News

BART Passed Over On Federal Loan For Airport Connector This Fiscal Year
StreetsBlog SF

Boosting Jobs With The Right Kind Of Housing And Transportation Efforts
New Republic

Budget Cuts Lead Cities To Bus Rapid Transit Over Rail
AltTransport

Buses, Bikes And Businesses Battle To Be King Of The Road
("San Francisco Muni...wants to establish 250 miles of transit-only lanes along roadways in The City and add 100 dedicated bike lanes. The goal is to move drivers out of their cars and also to increase the average speed of the transit system, which hovers at 8 mph now.")
San Francisco Examiner

Can We Ditch Our Cars And Embrace High-Speed Rail?
LAist

Clock Running Out On Montebello Railroad Crossing Project
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

The Community Plan Ordinance And Street-Level Planning: A Few False Alarms
CityWatch

Experts Say Sydney Could Learn From LA (''Let's look at a great example, which is Los Angeles...They have made tremendous investments in all kinds of mass transit - light rail, bus rapid transit, sometimes using the existing street grid, and they're doing some heavy
rail.")
Sydney Morning Herald

The Fifth And Flower Tumble: Loss Of Key Regional Connector Station Raises Worries In Downtown
Los Angeles Downtown News

Fuel Tax, Anyone? (an expert panel weighs in)
National Journal Transportation Blog

Is Los Angeles Ready For 30/10? (LA Neighbors United)
StreetsBlog LA

Los Angeles In Maps: What's Next?
KCET Departures

Los Angeles On $100 A Day ("Seven days and six nights without a car turned out to be not only possible but in many ways afforded me a more unfiltered view of Los Angeles than I would have gotten behind the wheel.")
New York Times

Many More Amtrak Services On Google Transit
Trillium Solutions

The Mean, Stupid And Expensive Capital Of The U.S.? Survey Says Los Angeles Is A Contender
("When it came to public transportation, pedestrian-friendliness and friendliness generally, Los Angeles ranked dead last among 35 major U.S. cities.")
Los Angeles Times
America's Favorite Cities
Travel + Leisure

NYC Transit Union Chief Seeks To Unmask Blogger
("A growing number of people are turning to courts to try to unmask their online detractors.")
Wall Street Union

Proposed Gas Tax Increase Fires Up Debate
CNN Money

The Quest For Oregon's "Next Top (Transportation) Model"
Bike Portland

SF Considers Downtown Congestion Pricing
KGO-7

State's Taxi Industry Seen As "Wild West Of Safety" ("Thousands of Californians ride in taxi cabs every day, but the industry is far less regulated than virtually every other form of public transportation.")
Desert Sun

Transit Plaza Design Unveiled
Arcadia's Best

Transit's Role In Sprawl Repair ("What if we learned from Los Angeles's path? Instead of waiting until it's really expensive, as Los Angeles did, what if we take early, gradual, inexpensive steps to make our arterials safe and attractive for transit? That doesn't mean ripping up our single-family neighborhoods, but it does mean rethinking our arterials so that they're safe and attractive places for pedestrians, and so that they provide appropriate levels of priority to transit.")
Human Transit

VISTA Fares To Climb 25 Percent
Camarillo Acorn

Want A 15-Cent Gas Tax Hike? These Groups Do
Contracting Business

Westside Real Estate Agents Talking Expo With Clients
StreetsBlog LA