L.A. Model Streets Manual, Foothill Extension RFP, DesertXpress, Freeways, Figueroa Lights, TOD, "ObamaRail," & More

The All-American Road Trip, Redefined -- By Bus And Train

Green LA Girl

"America Fast Forward" Promoted In LA

Asian Journal

Attorney Sues Monrovia Again In Another Attempt To Thwart $120 Million Gold Line Project

Arcadia Patch

Businesses Support California's High-Speed Rail

AltTransport

California AG Condemns Environmental Plan ("Kamala D. Harris issued a statement critical of the Santa Clarita Valley Area Environmental Impact Report. The report is needed to assess the potential effects of proposed population growth in the valley.")

Epoch Times

Can Transit-Oriented Development Lift All Boats?

StreetsBlog DC

Connection-Activated Civic Squares

Human Transit

Conservatives Home In On "ObamaRail"

The Hill

Construction Authority Issues Request For Proposals For Intermodal Parking Facilities Design Services Contract And Hosts Pre-Proposal Conference: Intermodal Parking Facilities Will Interface Buses, Cars And Bicycles At Each Of The Six Light Rail Stations Planned For The Foothill Extension From Pasadena To Azusa Project

Sacramento Bee

Desert High-Speed Rail Stays On Track: Groundbreaking Could Be In A Year

KCET

DesertXpress Final EIS Completed

California High Speed Rail Blog

Expo Line Picks Up Speed

Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District

FHWA MUTCD Manual Needs Modernization -- To Remove Confused Term "Freeway"

Toll Roads News

Google Sets Role In Mobile Payment ("potentially eliminating the need to carry cash, credit and debit cards, reward cards and transit passes.")

Wall Street Journal

Green Lights Will Be Longer For Riverside Buses Soon

Riverside Press-Enterprise

Ground-Level Tracks Considered For High-Speed Rail

Fresno Bee

How Women Rode The Bicycle Into The Future (slideshow)

Grist

L.A. Bus Commercials (1956) (Article and comments provide additional information regarding those involved in ERA Productions' animated advertisements for Los Angeles' Metropolitan Coach Lines)

Cartoon Brew

L.A. Mass Transit Chief Makes Airtight Case Against Rail

Reason

Let There Be Lights: Wilshire Grand Replacement Plan Could Lead To Illuminating Three Blocks Of Figueroa Street

Los Angeles Downtown News

Loans Based On Merit, Not Clout: A National Infrastructure Bank For The United States Would Offer A Way To Fund Projects That Improve Competitiveness And Economic Vitality And Not Just Please Local Constituents

Miller-McCune

Making Public Transit Sexy

Mission Local

Mass Transit Connector To LAX Moves Forward: But Should It?

KCET

A New Model Streets Manual To Rewrite Los Angeles' "DNA" ("Guidelines to support improved safety, livability and active transportation options...cities can use it, adopt it, steal it, and plagiarize it.")

Project For Public Spaces

Model Streets Manual On Its Way: Move Over Old Traffic Handbook (Describes the 12 chapters covering street design elements)

StreetsBlog LA

Newsflash: Highways Are Handouts For Developers, Too

StreetsBlog Network

Pricing And "The Poor" ("Is congestion pricing -- charging more to use a facility when it's in high demand, in order to decongest that facility -- an unacceptable burden on the poor?")

Human Transit

"Pulse Of The Port" Episode Explores 100 Years Of Port History

Long Beach Post

Raise Awareness Of The I-710 Widening Near Long Beach, And Do It On A Bike

StreetsBlog LA

Raise My Taxes, Please! Evaluating Household Savings From High Quality Public Transit Service (19p. PDF)

Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Rowland Heights Workshops Set On Proposed bikeways

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

(Street) Signs Of The Times ("Have you noticed the new Los Angeles City street signs lately?" They are evolving once again)

Militant Angeleno

A Transportation History Lesson ("Two articles this week highlighted some of our transportation roots, both locally and nationally.")

StreetsBlog LA

Unsprawl Case Study (How did this Town Square, a mixed-use transit-oriented development built during the 2007 housing and financial crisis, become a raging success?)

Terrain

U.S. Railroads Expect Bright 2011

Daily Markets

The Week Ahead: Congress Fights About Budget Cuts And Talks Transpo

StreetsBlog DC