Amtrak's Chief Engineer Joins High Speed Rail Authority
Central Valley Business Times
Anaheim Council Backs Streetcar Plan ("Plan to run streetcars between transportation hub and popular tourist attractions could be running by 2018.")
Orange County Register
Beverly Hills City Council Votes 4-1 To "Not Take A Position In Support Of Measure J"
Beverly Hills Courier
Caltrans To Take up I-405 Widening Proposals
Orange County Register
Can Cities Be "Resilient" And "Sustainable" At The Same Time? ("The urban areas of the next 100 years will have to be both. But that’s tricky.")
Slate
City Officials Announce Final Design For New 6th Street Bridge
Blog Downtown
Construction Authority Board Endorses Measure J
Metro Gold Line Foothill Construction Authority
Developer In Gold Line Dispute With City Releases Letter On Lawsuit
Monrovia Patch
Expanded 405 In OC Won't Have Toll Lanes Because County Doesn't Know What To Do With Money
Curbed LA
FHWA Helps Cities And Towns Land Bike/Ped Funding
StreetsBlog DC
Gold Line Bridge Work Prompts 210 Freeway Closure
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Long Beach Airport Unveils New Terminal
StreetsBlog LA
Methodologies To Estimate The Economic Impacts Of Disruptions To The Goods Movement System (105p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Metro Rail Ridership Is Way Up, Buses Flat
LA Observed
Miss Subways Of Yore Return To Pose For The Cameras At A New Transit Museum Show
Capital New York
Obama Visit To "Tonight Show" Could Snarl Traffic, LAPD Says ("Police are urging drivers to avoid streets near Los Angeles International Airport and NBC studios in Burbank beginning Wednesday evening.")
Los Angeles Times
Rare Glimpse Into Port Operations Draws Thousands
Long Beach Post
SFMTA To Combine Contracts For Its Central Subway Project
San Francisco Chronicle
Torrance Transit To Unveil Two New Bus Routes
Daily Breeze
Underground Scene: New York's Subway Back In The Day (vintage photos from the 1940s to 1960s)
LIFE
What's The Best Way To Figure Out What Bike Riders Really Want
The Atlantic: Cities
Why It Matters: Infrastructure ("From bridges to broadband, America's infrastructure is supposed to be speeding along commerce, delivering us to work and piping energy and water into our homes and businesses. But just repairing all the breakdowns and potholes would cost tens of billions more than we're currently spending each year. Experts warn the resulting infrastructure and innovation deficit is jeopardizing our global economic competitiveness. Traditionally nonpartisan territory, spending for transportation and other megaprojects is now routinely caught up in politics, with Democrats and Republicans divided over how to pay for public works and which ones.")
Associated Press
Work Officially Begins At Site Of LA's Second Tallest Tower
Curbed LA
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