5 Things America's Strongest Cities Have In Common
Assessing Obama's Infrastructure Plan (panel of experts weighs in)
National Journal Transportation Blog
Bikes And Streetcars Under Threat As The Suburban Car Loving Politicians Fight Back
Treehugger
The First 21 Infrastructure Projects Obama Should Fund
Business Insider
Frequent Network Maps By Routefriend (Example: Los Angeles)
Human Transit
Routefriend
FTA Getting Set For Role In Transit Safety
Washington Post
High Speed, High Stakes Dominate Vegas Rail Race (An extended look at the Desert XPress, Maglev, and Desert Lightning plans. "If there are two places facing an uncertain future for how people travel, they are Southern California and southern Nevada. Growth is increasingly making them more of one mega-region than two distinct locales. Travel between the two is also becoming a burden for transportation officials and the commuting public.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
L.A.-Long Beach Stakeholders Working Group Chipping Away At Terminal Issues
Cunningham Report
Long Beach Transit Service Reductions Take A Toll
California State University, Long Beach Daily 49er
Meet The Spring Street Park
Blog Downtown
New York To Study Red Hook Streetcars, But What Are The City's Goals? (Historic streetcars for Brooklyn)
Transport Politic
Policy Shift: Cities Invest In Public Transport
Financial Times
Politicians Duck Blame For Transit Mess: New Poll Finds That 60% Of New Yorkers Hold The MTA - Not Elected Officials - Responsible For Fare Increases, Service Cuts
Wall Street Journal
Rail Car Issue Not Yet Settled: Company Says Millions Of Dollars Will Be Wasted If [Houston] Metro Deal Is Axed ("The company holding Metro rail car contracts valued at $330 million said on Sunday that millions of taxpayer dollars could be wasted and as many as 100 Houston jobs lost if the transit agency complies with a federal mandate to cancel the deal.")
Waiting for PRT: How About Some Moonshot Mojo? (personal rapid transit)
Citiwire
We Don't Know What We're Talking About (Planning is overrun by verbiage with vague definitions, to the detriment of the process)
National League Of Cities
What MacArthur Park's History Tells Us About CicLAvia
CicLAvia
The Atlantic
Assessing Obama's Infrastructure Plan (panel of experts weighs in)
National Journal Transportation Blog
Bikes And Streetcars Under Threat As The Suburban Car Loving Politicians Fight Back
Treehugger
The First 21 Infrastructure Projects Obama Should Fund
Business Insider
Frequent Network Maps By Routefriend (Example: Los Angeles)
Human Transit
Routefriend
FTA Getting Set For Role In Transit Safety
Washington Post
Daily Breeze
High Speed, High Stakes Dominate Vegas Rail Race (An extended look at the Desert XPress, Maglev, and Desert Lightning plans. "If there are two places facing an uncertain future for how people travel, they are Southern California and southern Nevada. Growth is increasingly making them more of one mega-region than two distinct locales. Travel between the two is also becoming a burden for transportation officials and the commuting public.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
L.A.-Long Beach Stakeholders Working Group Chipping Away At Terminal Issues
Cunningham Report
Hollywood Unbound
Long Beach Transit Service Reductions Take A Toll
California State University, Long Beach Daily 49er
Meet The Spring Street Park
Blog Downtown
New York To Study Red Hook Streetcars, But What Are The City's Goals? (Historic streetcars for Brooklyn)
Transport Politic
StreetsBlog LA
No, We Want It! Politicians Argue For Gold line In Their Neighborhood (Making The Case For Washington Blvd. vs. SR-60 routing of next Gold Line extension)
Curbed LA
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Policy Shift: Cities Invest In Public Transport
Financial Times
Politicians Duck Blame For Transit Mess: New Poll Finds That 60% Of New Yorkers Hold The MTA - Not Elected Officials - Responsible For Fare Increases, Service Cuts
Wall Street Journal
Houston Chronicle
Rocky Road: Past Metro Mistakes Complicate The Effort To Build Houston's Light-Rail
Houston Chronicle
Regional Organizations, Past And Present: Will They Work In The Future? (Colloquium, October 2, 2010 : "The Metropolitan Water District brought Southern California abundant and cheap water; the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports gave the Los Angeles region the opportunity to be a global player; the Los Angeles World Airport brought the people of the world here; the Alameda Corridor gave us a world class goods rail link and, overnight, Metrolink gave us a regional passenger transit system. All of these regional systems have been hugely successful. Now the issues of water, goods movement, aviation, and regional transit face new and daunting challenges.")
Los Angeles Region Planning History Group In Cooperation With Huntington-USC Institute On California And The West
Scwharzenegger Checks Out China's High-Speed Rail
Associated Press
Schwarzenegger Says Asia Trip Will Help To Select High-Speed Rail Provider (“In each one of the countries that we go to, which is China, Japan and Korea, we are going to ride high speed rail and they all are going to be part of the bidding process in California,” Schwarzenegger said.)
Bloomberg
The Station Equation: Budget Could Nix Regional Connector Stop At Fifth And Flower
Los Angeles Downtown News
Subway Trains To Generate Power For The Grid: A Battery Will Capture Power From Braking Trains
MIT Technology Review
Rocky Road: Past Metro Mistakes Complicate The Effort To Build Houston's Light-Rail
Houston Chronicle
Regional Organizations, Past And Present: Will They Work In The Future? (Colloquium, October 2, 2010 : "The Metropolitan Water District brought Southern California abundant and cheap water; the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports gave the Los Angeles region the opportunity to be a global player; the Los Angeles World Airport brought the people of the world here; the Alameda Corridor gave us a world class goods rail link and, overnight, Metrolink gave us a regional passenger transit system. All of these regional systems have been hugely successful. Now the issues of water, goods movement, aviation, and regional transit face new and daunting challenges.")
Los Angeles Region Planning History Group In Cooperation With Huntington-USC Institute On California And The West
Scwharzenegger Checks Out China's High-Speed Rail
Associated Press
Schwarzenegger Says Asia Trip Will Help To Select High-Speed Rail Provider (“In each one of the countries that we go to, which is China, Japan and Korea, we are going to ride high speed rail and they all are going to be part of the bidding process in California,” Schwarzenegger said.)
Bloomberg
The Station Equation: Budget Could Nix Regional Connector Stop At Fifth And Flower
Los Angeles Downtown News
Subway Trains To Generate Power For The Grid: A Battery Will Capture Power From Braking Trains
MIT Technology Review
Southern California Public Radio
LAist
Waiting for PRT: How About Some Moonshot Mojo? (personal rapid transit)
Citiwire
We Don't Know What We're Talking About (Planning is overrun by verbiage with vague definitions, to the detriment of the process)
National League Of Cities
What MacArthur Park's History Tells Us About CicLAvia
CicLAvia
What's In A Name?: Little Tokyo Subway Station ("Just one minor issue remains, as far as I'm concerned: All of the Draft EIR documents show the station as "Second and Central" instead of "Little Tokyo.")
Little Tokyo Unblogged
