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11/19/2010

Gold Line Eastside Turns 1, Wilshire BRT, L.A. In Maps, Angels Flight Fare Increase?, Interactive Commuting Maps, L.A. H.S. Of Urban Planning & More

Arcadia Revises Downtown Vision
Pasadena Star-News

Buses Of The Future Unveiled At Vancouver Convention
Vancouver Sun

California Transit Agency Earns National Marketing Award For Cost Saving Text Messaging Program: Orange County Transportation Authority Edges Out Global Brands To Earn Title Of "Best Use Of Mobile Marketing: Relationship Building"
Business Wire

Can The Richest Neighborhoods Be Exempt From Bus Lanes?
("Richer cities Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are already not participating in the bus-only lane. Now, Metro and LA DOT must decide whether the richest section of the City of Los Angeles that the bus lane passes through will also be exempt.")
LA Subway Blog

Carmakers' Next Problem: Generation Y - People In Their Teens And Twenties Are More Interested In Gadgets Than Cars
MSNBC

China Completes World's Longest Bullet Line
Infrastructurist

Connection Penalties As "De Facto Redlining"?
Human Transit
Connection Fare Penalties: Why They Happen
Human Transit

Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities On Bikeability
StreetsBlog DC

Eastside Gold Line Reaches One Year Milestone
("One year later, it appears many East L.A. and Boyle Heights residents, as well as people from the surrounding communities, have adopted the light rail into their routines, local excursions and community activity commitments.")
EGP News

Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities To Improve Performance Accountability
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Full-Text Report (46p. PDF)

Highways And Labor Markets
Planetizen

LADOT Westside Mobility Plan Study
Westside Today

Los Angeles In Maps & The Curious Case Of Miss Laura J. Whitlock
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Metro America's Commuting Methods: The Interactive Edition
Infrastructurist
Interactive: State Of Metropolitan America Indicator Map
Brookings

The New New Urbanists: Los Angeles' High School Of Urban Planning Welcomes Its Freshman Class
(East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy of Urban Planning)
Metropolis

New Supermarket Coming To Downtown: Rio Ranch To Open Chinatown Area Grocery Store In 2011
Los Angeles Downtown News

NIMBY's In Westwood Threaten Wilshire BRT Project West Of Beverly Hills
StreetsBlog LA

Our View: Taking The Free From Our Freeways
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Project Delays Keep L.A. Metro's Budget In The Black
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy

Should Angels Flight Increase Its Quarter Fare?
Blog Downtown

Sustainable Housing, 30/10 And Public Transit In LA
Huffington Post

Train Makers Rail Against China's High-Speed Designs
Wall Street Journal

Villaraigosa Proposes Free Field Trip Travel For Students On MTA
Daily Breeze

Wilshire Bus Lane Battle On The Horizon
Curbed LA