AAA: Cost Of Car Ownership On The Rise
Next City
Your Driving Costs: How Much Are You Really Paying To Drive, 2013 edition (12p. PDF)
APA 2013: Dispatches From Chicago (Describes the national and international trends that planners will need to address over the next several decades)
Planetizen
Baca Names Transit Supervisors To Replace Demoted Officers ("The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday named replacements for three transit department supervisors who were demoted in connection with an alleged cheating scandal.")
Los Angeles Times
California Bullet Train Zooms Forward With Legal Settlement
Reuters
CSUN Bike Collective Encourages Alternative Transportation
California State University, Northridge Daily Sundial
Editorial: It's The System, Stupid ("Sam Lubell calls for streamlining bureaucracy to bring Los Angeles into the 21st century.")
Architect's Newspaper
How Amtrak Can Provide World-Class Service On The Northeast Corridor
StreetsBlog DC
How To Remove DTLA's Bike Lane From Film In 40 Seconds
Curbed LA
How The End Of The Traditional Workplace Is Changing Our Cities ("For decades, cities have reflected the neat separation of work and home, with residences in one part of town, offices and industry in another, and infrastructure (highways, parking garages, hub-and-spoke transit systems) built to help connect us between the two around what has been for many people a 9-to-5 work day. But what happens when more people start to work outside of offices, or really anywhere – at all times?")
The Atlantic: Cities
Ideas For Downtown LA: Implement Road Diets On Our Ultra Wide Streets To Encourage Pedestrian Activity
DTLA Rising
It's Almost Impossible To Put An Entire U.S. Metro Area On Lockdown ("The MBTA, the city's mass transit agency, has halted all service, and Boston taxi drivers have been ordered off the roads.")
The Atlantic: Cities
Long Beach: Belmont Heights Medians Are Complete With Slower Traffic And More Pedestrians
StreetsBlog LA
National Photography Competition Brings Transportation's Role Into Focus
AASHTO Press Release
Faces Of Transportation Competition
One Small Solution For Food Deserts: The Bus-Mounted Grocery Bin
The Atlantic: Cities
Op/Ed: A Quick Fix To L.A.'s Mass Transit: Bring Back The Trolleybuses!
StreetsBlog LA
Rail Officials Admit To Changing Bid Rules ("The California High Speed Rail Authority acknowledges that the modification awards construction work on the first phase to a group that received the lowest technical rating.")
Los Angeles Times
Residents Worry Highland Park Transit Village Will Take Parking
EGP News
The School District And The Subway
Beverly Hills Courier
Settlement Reached In Calif. Bullet Train Lawsuit; Federal Rail Panel Claims Project Oversight
Washington Post
Southern California Gas Prices Finally Dip Below $4 Per Gallon
Los Angeles Daily News
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