12th Annual Trolley Dances Returns To Downtown San Diego
San Diego Dance Theater
The Best Argument For HSR I've Seen All Month (newly proposed "saddle seats" for airlines would have passengers in a semi-standing position, allowing for more seats per aircraft)
California High Speed Rail Blog
Better Transportation Investment Creates More Jobs
Huffington Post
Bing Maps Get Public Transit Directions
CNET
California And China: A Railroad Love Story ("High-speed or transcontinental, Gold Rush or 21st Century: When the Golden State needs trains, it looks to the West)
Salon
California Drivers Still Texting Despite Law (at twice the rate surveyed in January 2009, when the state's ban went into effect)
Los Angeles Times
California's Landmark Climate Law: Job Killer Or Creator?
Grist
Citizens Across The Country And Public Transit Industry Leaders Request Long-Term Surface Transportation Legislation
APTA
City Hall Rethinks Clean-Tech Corridor
Los Angeles Daily News
Downtown Long Beach Transit Mall To Close For $7 Million Renovation: Lighting, Shelters, Public Art To Enhance Regional Transit Hub (2p. PDF)
Long Beach Transit Press Release
Editorial: No On Prop. 23: Proponents Can't Make A Case For Delaying Emissions Rules
Los Angeles Daily News
Federal Transportation Money: What Does It Mean For California?
Capitol Weekly
Four L.A. Plans For Park(ing) Day (In-depth look at last week's plans for individuals and organizations creating and helping populate temporary public spaces – parks – that are the size of a single vehicle parking space.)
Next American City
Future For California Tollways Looks HOT
Bond Buyer
London iPhone Apps That Put A Kiwi On The Tube Map (profiles Malcolm Barclay, who has built a transit app empire)
London Evening Standard
Los Angeles And Beijing Partner On Gridlock Solutions
AltTransport
MTA Drops Lawsuit Against Firm Over Red Line Construction
Los Angeles Daily News
MTA Drops Remaining Claims Against Tutor-Saliba-Perini
LA Observed
New Transponder System Reducing Illegal HOV Lane Usage
KSL
New Yorker Currents: Ray LaHood (video : interesting 20-minute interview with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood)
New Yorker
On The Right Track: New Downtown Bike Shop Lures Riders With An Indoor Testing Facility
Los Angeles Downtown News
On Transpo Bill, Administration Wants Congress To Sort Out The Details
StreetsBlog DC
Opera On The 110 Hits BBC (Pasadena and Harbor Freeways opera)
LA Observed
Park[ing] Day L.A.2010: East Hollywood & Silverlake
LAist
Parking Management That Actually Manages Parking (Within moments of launching paid parking on downtown streets, drivers began behaving as intended, with all-day parkers moving to new lots)
Bill Fulton, Mayor Of Ventura
Pot Kettle Black: LADOT Chides USC
Bikeside LA
Public Transit Agencies And Twitter
Choice Riders
Rail Car Firm Asks Feds To Reconsider Nixing Contract: Company Says Decision Based On Incorrect Reports
Houston Chronicle
Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim LA Spent "A Couple Million" In Stimulus "Per Job" Created
Media Matters For America
San Fernando Bike Path Offers New Roads For Oxy Cyclists
Occidental Weekly
Social Networking For Safer Cycling ("bikepooling")
The City Fix
Seven Rules For Sustainable Communities: How City Design Can Help Save The Planet (Part 1 of an 8-part series)
The Tyee
Why A Streetcar Is Something To Be Desired: Rule 1 For Sustainable Communities: Restore The Streetcar City (Part 2 of an 8-part series)
The Tyee
A Self-Help Guide For The Planet: Changing The Way We Build Our Cities Is Essential To Stopping Global Warming (author and professor of landscape and liveable environments lays out seven interconnected steps to a more sustainable world)
The Tyee
Some NYC History: The [New York] MTA's Artificial Subway Reef And Belgian Paving Stones
WNYC
Technology Tells Whether Bridges Are "Dead Or Alive:" Evolving Bridge Sensor Technology Offers Tools To Far More Accurately Assess The Structural Health Of Existing Bridges
Governing
TTC Helps Revive U.S. 66 In East Hollywood (p. 7 of 8p. PDF)
Transit Coalition
Updated: L.A. Residents File Lawsuit Against Expo Line Bikeway Construction
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
USC Receives Transportation Solutions Award
USC Daily Trojan
Villaraigosa To Host CicLAvia Press Conference Wednesday
StreetsBlog LA
Map Resources For CicLAvia (October 10 : 7.5-Mile Route, Transportation Management Plan Maps)
CicLAvia
Westside Subway Extension Hearings On Draft EIS/EIR (calendar of public meetings this week)
StreetsBlog LA
Westside Subway Extension Public Comment Period Starting: Five Meetings Are Scheduled For Residents To Weigh In On Possible Routes And Station Locations For The Purple Line Extension, Which The MTA Is Set To Decide About Oct. 28
Los Angeles Times
What Just May Drive High Speed Rail To Reality
StreetsBlog LA
California High-Speed Rail TOD Marketplace (September 23 : Anaheim Convention Center : :Will provide attendees the opportunity to discuss and guide the future development of communities along the rail corridor, propelling California into a new era of responsible development and land use.")
Urban Land Institute & California High-Speed Rail Authority
