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6 Reasons To Be Wary Of Public-Private Partnerships
Rooflines
Advocating For Transportation Systems Change ("A U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics study found that 6 million people living with disabilities had difficulties accessing needed transportation. Concerns about accessible transportation have led many Independent Living Centers (ILCs) in California to increase their advocacy efforts to create long-term transportation systems change.")
Wall Street Journal
A Better Way To Grade City Transportation Systems ("TTI’s narrow focus on congestion has come under increasingly intense scrutiny in recent years, with critics pointing out that it is used to justify road-widening projects that purport to reduce congestion but mainly serve to encourage sprawl and lengthen commutes.")
StreetsBlog DC
Beverly Hills Votes To Support Purple Line Subway Extension, But Not Under High School
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Bullet Train Bidder Had Overruns: Builder Blames Past Issues On Governments Changing Specs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Could Transportation Spending Become A Core Conservative Value?
StreetsBlog DC
Council Will Support Westside Extension Only If It Avoids High School
Beverly Hills Patch
Doubling Efforts On Metro's Fare Studies?
StreetsBlog LA
Executive Decision Making For Transportation Capacity: The Multi-Agency Context (78p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program
First Permits For Bike Share Kiosks Could Be Filed Soon
Curbed LA
Gov. Brown Sees China As Ticket To High-Speed Railway
China Digital Times
How Should Government Regulate Private Ride Sharing?
Greater Greater Washington
Industrial Alameda Square To Be Renovated, Stylized Into Fashion-Focused Retail Center
Blog Downtown
LA Sheriff's Crackdown On Blue Line Rail Crime Results In Hundreds Of Citations
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Litter By Litter, He Cleans Up The Area (And Loses Weight Too) ("It's trash and carry for Hans Svanoe, a corporate butler who's become a one-man sanitation engineer picking up garbage along the Orange Line busway.")
Los Angeles Times
Metro Expo Line Bridge Construction To Affect Part Of West LA
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Next Stop? A Milestone In Public Art
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Ocean Park Boulevard Complete Street
Urban Insights LA
President Obama Punts On Transportation Pay-Fors
Politico
Question Of The Week: Should CalTrans Increase HOV Lane Requirement To Three Passengers?
Los Angeles Daily News
Review Of The Federal Transit Administration's Transit Economic Requirements Model (36p. PDF)
Transportation Research Board
State Transportation Funding Proposals Detailed In New AASHTO Web Resource
AASHTO
Transportation Governance And Finance: A 50-State Review Of State Legislatures And Departments Of Transportation (230p. PDF)
National Conference Of State Legislatures / AASHTO
Strong Urban Cores Promote Socializing In The City ("Long commute times and urban areas that leapfrog over open space make it harder for people to socialize, but cities that are decentralized are even worse.")
Science Daily
Supreme Court Will Hear Truckers' Challenge To Port Of Los Angeles Rules
Daily Breeze
Take A Peek At Preliminary Art For The Expo Line Extension
Curbed LA
Take Me Out To The Ballgame By Public Transit
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
Thousands Sign Up For New York City Bike Share In First Hours Of Registration
Transportation Nation
What Corridors Could Be Best For BRT? Metro's Study Progresses
StreetsBlog LA
Why "Nobody" Bikes In L.A., Yet...And Why That Could Change
TreeHugger
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