Airport Fight Gets Boost (The Southern California Associated Governments on Thursday threw its weight behind local management of ONT, sending a letter to Los Angeles City Administrator Miguel Santana favoring it.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Editorial: Fair Flight?
Barriers To Using Fixed-Route Public Transit For Older Adults (251p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Bringing Transit To The Masses (Omnitrans new service)
San Bernardino Sun
Car Capacity Is Not Sacred ("The crucial point is that car infrastructure not only encourages driving, it also sabotages mobility by any other means. It’s a vicious cycle: roads beget sprawl begets car dependence begets roads, and so on. And the result is an ever-expanding built environment in which walking, biking, and transit are not viable options. The only way to break the vicious cycle is to invest our limited transportation dollars in infrastructure that will help make walking, biking, and transit more attractive than driving."
Publicola
City Announces L.A. Bicycle Plan Meetings
LAist
DOT Envisions Human-Free Car Operation
Federal News Radio
El Pueblo Takes First Step To Rehabilitate Pico-Garnier Block: Property Could Bring Department Nearly $1 Million In Annual Rent
Los Angeles Downtown News
Exploring The Effectiveness Of Transit Security Awareness Campaigns In The San Francisco Bay Area (72p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
First Impressions Of Obama's Big Infrastructure Announcement
StreetsBlog
Foothill Transit Introduces The Hybrid Of The Future
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
High-Speed Passenger Rail Safety Strategy (31p. PDF)
U.S. Federal Railroad Administration Office Of Railroad Safety
Local Governments To Bail Out Train Safety Plan
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Mapping The Land Lost To Parking ("Using a technique called a figure ground map you can really get a feel for what's for people and what's for cars. I made a quick one for the area around the Pico Blue Line station in Los Angeles. What's the priority here?")
Straight Outta Suburbia
NJ Transit Introduces "Quiet Train Cars" On Northeast Corridor Express Trains
NJ.com
Obama Wants $50 Billion Invested In Transportation, Villaraigosa Chimes In About 30/10
LAist
Obama's Infrastructure Stimulus: What We Know Now
Infrastructurist
Obama's Infrastructure Stimulus: What We Still Need To Know
Infrastructurist
OC vs. LA: 52 Undeniable Reasons To Live Here & Not There (including drivers, traffic flow, modern highways, surface streets, left-turn lanes, parking)
Orange Coast Magazine
On Infrastructure, Time To Dump The Ideology
National Review Online
Opinion: California's Dismal Economy Needs An Infrastructure Boost: What Better Way To Solve The State's Employment Problem Than Spending On Critical Infrastructure?
Los Angeles Times
Pay To Park: New Parking Meter Stickers Carry A Warning
LAist
Philly Subway To Capture Energy From Braking Trains
CNET
Republicans Line Up To Oppose Obama's Transportation Proposal
StreetsBlog DC
Review: Public Policies For Pedestrian And Bicyclist Safety And Mobility: An Implementation Project Of The Pedestrian And Bicyclist Safety And Mobility International Scan (68p. PDF : Transportation professionals from the United States with expertise in bicycling and walking visited five countries in Europe to identify and assess effective approaches to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety and mobility. The countries visited — Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom — were chosen because of their innovative approaches to pedestrian and bicycle transportation, as well as the potential transferability of their policies and practices)
Federal Highway Administration International Technology Scanning Program
Scan A Barcode, Find A Library: Bringing The World's Library Collections To Your Phone
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Sound Experts To Weight In On Noise Levels At RR Crossings
Orange County Register
Transit Panel Hopes To Raise Fares For Bus Services
Ventura County Star
Union Jobs In LA Disappearing At Rapid Rate
Southern California Public Radio
Waste Underground: Turnstile Boondoggle (video)
Fox News
