50th Anniversary Of L.A.'s "Metro Rail"...Say Whaaat?!: Celebrating The 1960 Birth Of Our Modern Rail System (The story behind the birth of "Metro" on August 26, 1960)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
6th Street's Fate Delayed By Environmental Review (6th Street Viaduct over the Los Angeles River)
Blog Downtown
America Bikes (A coalition of leaders from the bicycle community advocating for positive outcomes for bicycling in the federal transportation bill)
America Bikes
Amtrak Power And Communication Lines Falter ("While social networking would allow Amtrak to communicate directly with passengers searching their smartphones for answers, Romero said Amtrak's priority is communicating with mass media.")
WTOP
California To Deploy Nation's First Mass Mobile Alert System
Government Technology
Connecting The Dots (Los Angeles' Downtown Peoplemover, Metro's Regional Connector, Broadway's Downtown Streetcar and other proposals throughout history to get people around downtown)
Blog Downtown
Digging History At Broadway Place
Blog Downtown
Found In L.A.: Parking Meter Activism
LAist
Good Question Of The Week: Transfer Penalties
Human Transit
Introduction To Road Data - Part One ("Even more important than visualization is the network aspect of the roads associated with the map data. The underlying map data used to route vehicles are an integral part of any vehicle routing application. The map may impact the visualization part of those applications, but it is even more important when it comes to the networking properties of the map data. Why? Because the algorithms, which determine how to assign stops and how to drive to and sequence stops, are completely dependent on the map's network dataset.")
Directions
LA County Sidewalk Riding: Part 4
LADOT Bike Blog
Metrolink Offers $200-Million Settlement In Chatsworth Rail Disaster: The Offer, Which Matches The Liability Cap Established Under Federal Law For Passenger Train Accidents, May Be Challenged As Inadequate By Victims Of The 2008 Crash
Los Angeles Times
A New "American System"? ("The City of the Angels may be about to give birth to a new version of the "American System" -- the national-state-local transportation partnership that, for over a hundred years, helped propel America into global economic leadership...It will be ironic if the city that gave us the freeway is the same one that shows us the path toward a much-needed new American Plan -- one that gets us Beyond Oil.")
Huffington Post
New Report: Follow The Money For Sustainable Transport
The City Fix
A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport: Financing The Vision ASAP (66p. PDF)
Institution For Transportation & Development Policy
A New Vision For Transportation In Los Angeles: Improving Infrastructure In Urban Core Communities (Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency and Housing Authority submit application for Tiger II funding for Watts Green Corridor Project)
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
Libertarian Road Trip 2010!
Next American City
Restoring Trust In The Highway Trust Fund (41p. PDF)
Reason Foundation
Opinion: Hate To Say We Told You So... (Metro turnstiles)
MetroRider LA
Park Smart Pilot Has Cut Traffic In Park Slope, DOT Finds ("NYCDOT's Park Smart program, which raises the price of on-street spaces when demand is highest, has helped more people find parking in Park Slope while relieving the traffic caused by cruising for a space, according to new data released by the agency.")
StreetsBlog NY
Riverside Officials Promoting Greenfield Site For HSR Station
California High Speed Rail Blog
Vista Street Requires More Money For Bike Boulevard (Long Beach)
Gazettes
