10 Least Stressful Jobs: #2 = Transportation Engineer
CNN Money
30/10 Initiative: Los Angeles Wins $546 Million Federal Loan
Huffington Post
After The Election, What If?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Angela Glover Blackwell On Equity, Infrastructure, And The President (interview with the chair of the Transportation For America Equity Caucus)
StreetsBlog DC
Transportation For America Equity Caucus
Are Municipal Bankruptcies Imminent?: State And Local Debt Is At An All-Time High -- Governments Have Borrowed $2.4 Trillion As Of Mid-2010
Governing
As Suburban Poverty Grows, U.S. Fails To Respond Adequately ("The demographics of the newly poor suggest that transit is not a realistic option for a majority of those in poverty, because more and more of them live outside of city centers.")
Next American City
The Great Recession And Poverty In Metropolitan America (10p. PDF)
Brookings
Car-Shaped Bike Rack Turns One Parking Space Into 15
GOOD
Barstow Celebrates Railroad History: Railfest Brings Hundreds To Harvey House
Desert Dispatch
California High Speed Rail: Governor's Veto May Be Illegal
Examiner
City / Culture: A Bike + Planning Conversation With Mike Lydon (Lydon is the Founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, a New York City and Miami-based urban planning, advocacy, and design firm)
Next American City
Desert Sun Investigation: 1-In-3 Inspected Trucks Unfit for I-10: Banning Station Finds More Safety Violations Than Any In State
Palm Springs Desert Sun
EPA Rules That Fuel Can Contain More Ethanol
NPR
The Failure Of the Right ("Most conservatives tend to defend their big-government agendas with one of the following lies": The Wendell Cox Closed System, The Joel Kotkin Real Americans, The Randal O'Toole Transit Socialism)
Cap'n Transit Rides Again
"Fare Media" And Other Logistical Nightmares
Transportation Nation
Federal Loan To Speed Work On Crenshaw Light-Rail Line: It Is The First Federal Commitment To Villaraigosa's So-Called 30/10 Initiative, Which Seeks To Dramatically Accelerate A Dozen MTA Transit Projects
Los Angeles Times
Finding The Money To Build Out LA's 30/10 Transportation Initiative
Huffington Post
The Fitness Gap: Americans Walking Far Less Than People In Other Countries
StreetsBlog
Five Reasons Reformers Are Rallying Behind Obama's Transpo Push
StreetsBlog DC
Gas-Tax Revamp Pushed To Fund Transportation Projects (AASHTO is pushing a replacement of the current federal excise fuel taxes with sales taxes, initially revenue-neutral, but would increase with inflation, unlike stagnant excise taxes last increased in 1993. In six years, it could raise an extra $43 billion)
Wall Street Journal
The Greatness Of Ambition Made Real In The Alps
NPR
In Pictures: Gotthard Tunnel Breakthrough (Swiss engineers have broken through the last section of rock to create the world's longest tunnel: 35 miles in length)
BBC
He Puts Parking In Its Place: UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, Hailed As The "Prophet Of Parking," Believes Free Or Inexpensive Space For Cars Is At The Root Of Many An Urban Ill:
Congestion, Sprawl, Wasteful Energy Use, Air Pollution
Los Angeles Times
How About A Half Dozen CicLAvias In 2011?
StreetsBlog LA
How Social Media Is Fueling A Car-Sharing Revolution
AltTransport
The New Car-Sharing Economy (13p. PDF)
Latitude ; Shareable Magazine
HUD Announces Winners Of $100M In Sustainability Grants
StreetsBlog DC
L.A.'s 30/10 Plan Advances Suddenly With A $546 Million Loan For The Crenshaw Light Rail Project ("Observers nationwide should be evaluating the approach L.A. has taken on this project very carefully: This method, in which local governments promise a long-term revenue stream to pay back low-interest loans from Washington, could be a model for future infrastructure creation everywhere. Or it may at least allow the nation’s second-largest city to advance the fast-paced transit expansion program it has been planning.")
Transport Politic
LAX Rail Line Is Early Stop In Plan To Expedite Transit Work
Daily Breeze
London Bike-Hire Scheme On Road To Be Only Public Transport System In Profit: TfL Expect The Project Will Cover Operating Costs Within Three Years And Will Then Go On To Meet Implementation Costs
Guardian (U.K.)
Metro's Favored Westside Subway Route
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Miles Not Gallons Could Be Key To Road Upkeep
Miller-McCune
Modernizing Public Transportation: Lessons Learned From Major Bus Improvements In Latin America And Asia (44p. PDF : an overview of developments in 13 cities)
World Resources Institute; EMBARQ
Q&A With Dario Hidalgo, Part 1
Q&A With Dario Hidalgo, Part 2
The City Fix
New Card & Coin Meters Net Nearly A Quarter Million A Month
LAist
New Research Shows Americans Don't Walk Much ("Using pedometers to collect data on 1,136 Americans, researchers found that they averaged 5,117 steps a day. A mile is roughly 2,000 steps. Meanwhile Australians averaged 9,695 steps a day, the Swiss clocked in at 9,650, and the Japanese puttered about at 7,168 paces.")
Infrastructurist
Nobody Pays The Tab For High-Speed Rail News
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Obama Administration Begins Push For New Transportation Legislation
Transport Politic
An Economic Analysis Of Infrastructure Investment (28p. PDF)
U.S. Department Of The Treasury; Council Of Economic Advisers
Opinion: CicLAvia And Cycling In Los Angeles (letters to the editor regarding CicLAvia)
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Making California Whole Is The True Promise Of A High-Speed Rail System
Los Angeles Daily News
Opinion: Will We Ever Have High-Speed Trains? ("Even if the political will exists, does a system of high-speed railways across America make economic sense?")
New York Times
A Measured Approach Can Work (Robert Puentes, Brookings Institution)
Habits Are Hard To Change (Jan K. Brueckner, Economist, UC Irvine)
Fast Trains Are Coming (Joseph P. Schwieterman, President, Midwest High Speed Rail Association)
Infeasible And Not Cost Effective (Sam Staley, Reason Foundation)
An Investment We Have To Make (Robert D. Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association)
Improve Existing Railroads (Keith T. Poole, Political Scientist, University of Georgia)
Plan To Reduce Sprawl Will Boost Health, Environment
Washington Post
Same Time, Next Year? (City Council members Eric Garcetti and Bill Rosendahl submitted a motion for city agencies to study, with CicLAVia organizers, the 10/10/10 CicLAvia to prepare for future events)
Curbed LA
Schwarzenegger Kills Provision Related To High-Speed Train Accountability
Curbed LA
Shoup: NPR Puts A Price On Parking. Why Not Cato?
StreetsBlog
Shovel-Ready Projects? Obama Admits There's No Such Thing
Transportation Nation
Solar Roadways Get $50K To Move Forward
Wired
Spending On Housing And Transportation Fell In 2009
New York Times
This Short, Scenic Mojave Train Tour Was A Long Time Coming: It Took Five Years And $50,000 To Get A Single L.A.-Barstow-Kelso Depot Tour Rolling. Organizers Hope It Inspired Someone To Bankroll A Regular Tourist Service To Rival The Grand Canyon
Los Angeles Times
Transit Mode Share Trends Looking Steady; Rail Appears To Encourage Non-Automobile Commutes ("Just how effective have new investments in transit been in promoting a shift of Americans towards public transportation? Has the recent livable communities movement resulted in increased commuting by bike or by foot?...The places recording the largest increases in transit modal share were Nashville, Washington, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Boston.")
Transport Politic
Transportation Equity Atlas
Pratt Center For Community Development
Transporation Secretary Envisions Nation Connected By High-Speed Rail ("He expects 80 percent of American cities to be connected by high-speed rail in 25 years.")
Las Vegas Sun
Two Scenarios For Century City In 2050 ("What might happen if the Century City subway stop was located at Santa Monica and Avenue of the Stars instead of the current center of Century City at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars?")
LA Subway Blog
What If the Santa Monica Blvd. Transit Corridor Were Light Rail?
The Pink Line
What's Coming To Olympic & Normandie? Zev on Expo Line Lawsuit
Curbed LA
Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short ("What causes spending to expand well beyond initial projections? Explanations range from subtle psychological impulses when numbers are involved, to the economic phenomenon known as the winner's curse, to outright lying.")CNN Money
30/10 Initiative: Los Angeles Wins $546 Million Federal Loan
Huffington Post
After The Election, What If?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Angela Glover Blackwell On Equity, Infrastructure, And The President (interview with the chair of the Transportation For America Equity Caucus)
StreetsBlog DC
Transportation For America Equity Caucus
Are Municipal Bankruptcies Imminent?: State And Local Debt Is At An All-Time High -- Governments Have Borrowed $2.4 Trillion As Of Mid-2010
Governing
As Suburban Poverty Grows, U.S. Fails To Respond Adequately ("The demographics of the newly poor suggest that transit is not a realistic option for a majority of those in poverty, because more and more of them live outside of city centers.")
Next American City
The Great Recession And Poverty In Metropolitan America (10p. PDF)
Brookings
Car-Shaped Bike Rack Turns One Parking Space Into 15
GOOD
Barstow Celebrates Railroad History: Railfest Brings Hundreds To Harvey House
Desert Dispatch
California High Speed Rail: Governor's Veto May Be Illegal
Examiner
City / Culture: A Bike + Planning Conversation With Mike Lydon (Lydon is the Founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, a New York City and Miami-based urban planning, advocacy, and design firm)
Next American City
Desert Sun Investigation: 1-In-3 Inspected Trucks Unfit for I-10: Banning Station Finds More Safety Violations Than Any In State
Palm Springs Desert Sun
EPA Rules That Fuel Can Contain More Ethanol
NPR
The Failure Of the Right ("Most conservatives tend to defend their big-government agendas with one of the following lies": The Wendell Cox Closed System, The Joel Kotkin Real Americans, The Randal O'Toole Transit Socialism)
Cap'n Transit Rides Again
"Fare Media" And Other Logistical Nightmares
Transportation Nation
Federal Loan To Speed Work On Crenshaw Light-Rail Line: It Is The First Federal Commitment To Villaraigosa's So-Called 30/10 Initiative, Which Seeks To Dramatically Accelerate A Dozen MTA Transit Projects
Los Angeles Times
Finding The Money To Build Out LA's 30/10 Transportation Initiative
Huffington Post
The Fitness Gap: Americans Walking Far Less Than People In Other Countries
StreetsBlog
Five Reasons Reformers Are Rallying Behind Obama's Transpo Push
StreetsBlog DC
Gas-Tax Revamp Pushed To Fund Transportation Projects (AASHTO is pushing a replacement of the current federal excise fuel taxes with sales taxes, initially revenue-neutral, but would increase with inflation, unlike stagnant excise taxes last increased in 1993. In six years, it could raise an extra $43 billion)
Wall Street Journal
The Greatness Of Ambition Made Real In The Alps
NPR
In Pictures: Gotthard Tunnel Breakthrough (Swiss engineers have broken through the last section of rock to create the world's longest tunnel: 35 miles in length)
BBC
He Puts Parking In Its Place: UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, Hailed As The "Prophet Of Parking," Believes Free Or Inexpensive Space For Cars Is At The Root Of Many An Urban Ill:
Congestion, Sprawl, Wasteful Energy Use, Air Pollution
Los Angeles Times
How About A Half Dozen CicLAvias In 2011?
StreetsBlog LA
How Social Media Is Fueling A Car-Sharing Revolution
AltTransport
The New Car-Sharing Economy (13p. PDF)
Latitude ; Shareable Magazine
HUD Announces Winners Of $100M In Sustainability Grants
StreetsBlog DC
L.A.'s 30/10 Plan Advances Suddenly With A $546 Million Loan For The Crenshaw Light Rail Project ("Observers nationwide should be evaluating the approach L.A. has taken on this project very carefully: This method, in which local governments promise a long-term revenue stream to pay back low-interest loans from Washington, could be a model for future infrastructure creation everywhere. Or it may at least allow the nation’s second-largest city to advance the fast-paced transit expansion program it has been planning.")
Transport Politic
LAX Rail Line Is Early Stop In Plan To Expedite Transit Work
Daily Breeze
London Bike-Hire Scheme On Road To Be Only Public Transport System In Profit: TfL Expect The Project Will Cover Operating Costs Within Three Years And Will Then Go On To Meet Implementation Costs
Guardian (U.K.)
Metro's Favored Westside Subway Route
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Miles Not Gallons Could Be Key To Road Upkeep
Miller-McCune
Modernizing Public Transportation: Lessons Learned From Major Bus Improvements In Latin America And Asia (44p. PDF : an overview of developments in 13 cities)
World Resources Institute; EMBARQ
Q&A With Dario Hidalgo, Part 1
Q&A With Dario Hidalgo, Part 2
The City Fix
New Card & Coin Meters Net Nearly A Quarter Million A Month
LAist
New Research Shows Americans Don't Walk Much ("Using pedometers to collect data on 1,136 Americans, researchers found that they averaged 5,117 steps a day. A mile is roughly 2,000 steps. Meanwhile Australians averaged 9,695 steps a day, the Swiss clocked in at 9,650, and the Japanese puttered about at 7,168 paces.")
Infrastructurist
Nobody Pays The Tab For High-Speed Rail News
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Obama Administration Begins Push For New Transportation Legislation
Transport Politic
An Economic Analysis Of Infrastructure Investment (28p. PDF)
U.S. Department Of The Treasury; Council Of Economic Advisers
Opinion: CicLAvia And Cycling In Los Angeles (letters to the editor regarding CicLAvia)
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Making California Whole Is The True Promise Of A High-Speed Rail System
Los Angeles Daily News
Opinion: Will We Ever Have High-Speed Trains? ("Even if the political will exists, does a system of high-speed railways across America make economic sense?")
New York Times
A Measured Approach Can Work (Robert Puentes, Brookings Institution)
Habits Are Hard To Change (Jan K. Brueckner, Economist, UC Irvine)
Fast Trains Are Coming (Joseph P. Schwieterman, President, Midwest High Speed Rail Association)
Infeasible And Not Cost Effective (Sam Staley, Reason Foundation)
An Investment We Have To Make (Robert D. Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association)
Improve Existing Railroads (Keith T. Poole, Political Scientist, University of Georgia)
Plan To Reduce Sprawl Will Boost Health, Environment
Washington Post
Same Time, Next Year? (City Council members Eric Garcetti and Bill Rosendahl submitted a motion for city agencies to study, with CicLAVia organizers, the 10/10/10 CicLAvia to prepare for future events)
Curbed LA
Schwarzenegger Kills Provision Related To High-Speed Train Accountability
Curbed LA
Shoup: NPR Puts A Price On Parking. Why Not Cato?
StreetsBlog
Shovel-Ready Projects? Obama Admits There's No Such Thing
Transportation Nation
Solar Roadways Get $50K To Move Forward
Wired
Spending On Housing And Transportation Fell In 2009
New York Times
This Short, Scenic Mojave Train Tour Was A Long Time Coming: It Took Five Years And $50,000 To Get A Single L.A.-Barstow-Kelso Depot Tour Rolling. Organizers Hope It Inspired Someone To Bankroll A Regular Tourist Service To Rival The Grand Canyon
Los Angeles Times
Transit Mode Share Trends Looking Steady; Rail Appears To Encourage Non-Automobile Commutes ("Just how effective have new investments in transit been in promoting a shift of Americans towards public transportation? Has the recent livable communities movement resulted in increased commuting by bike or by foot?...The places recording the largest increases in transit modal share were Nashville, Washington, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Boston.")
Transport Politic
Transportation Equity Atlas
Pratt Center For Community Development
Transporation Secretary Envisions Nation Connected By High-Speed Rail ("He expects 80 percent of American cities to be connected by high-speed rail in 25 years.")
Las Vegas Sun
Two Scenarios For Century City In 2050 ("What might happen if the Century City subway stop was located at Santa Monica and Avenue of the Stars instead of the current center of Century City at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars?")
LA Subway Blog
What If the Santa Monica Blvd. Transit Corridor Were Light Rail?
The Pink Line
What's Coming To Olympic & Normandie? Zev on Expo Line Lawsuit
Curbed LA
Wall Street Journal
Why The Governor's HSR Line-Item Veto Is Irrelevant
California High Speed Rail Blog
