55-Hour Closure Planned On 110 Freeway This Weekend
Pasadena Star-News
2010 National Award For Smart Growth Achievement (This year's award winners, plus continuing achievements of past recipients)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Airport To Raise Parking Fees: Short-Term Rate At Bob Hope Will Now Be Slightly Higher Than At LAX
Glendale News-Press
Americans Don't Want The Gas Tax Raised. Big Surprise!
AltTransport
Amtrak Sets Thanksgiving Record
Washington Post
Boyle Heights' Historic Boyle Hotel Finally Getting A Facelift ("Tomorrow afternoon is a kick-off party for the $24.6 million renovation of the 1889 Boyle Hotel, located on the edge of Mariachi
Plaza and the new Gold Line station.")
Curbed LA
China's "Technology Transfer" Draws Ire ("Foreign companies helped China build high-speed trains, and in the few years since, China has taken that technology, "re-innovated" or built on it, and are now calling it their own, creating tensions with the companies who fear they're now having to compete with China.")
NPR
City Receives Nearly $1 Million In Grant Funding For Open Space Project: The Walking Path Will Be Built As Part Of The First Phase Of The Station Square Transit Village
Monrovia Patch
Court Upholds Calif. Air Regulator's Pollution Fee ("The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the local air district's rule requiring developers to reduce emissions from new housing projects by building features like bicycle lanes and energy-efficient cooling systems. If they don't do enough to preserve air quality, they must pay fees that have averaged about $500 per house.")
Fresno Bee
Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council Opposes 710 Freeway Tunnel, Funds "Reach Our Community Kids": Council's Anti-710 Resolution To Be Presented To MTA And L.A. City Council As Part Of Public Record
Eagle Rock Patch
Editorial: California's Pork-Barrel Bullet Train
Daily Breeze
Editorial: Ugly City LA: Considerations On How To Transform Los Angeles Into A Beautiful -- And Livable -- Model City ("The city needs the courage to create ongoing programs. Instead of closing streets once a year, close a few permanently. Santa Monica did this with its 3rd Street Promenade, and it’s become by far that city’s biggest urban attraction.")
Architect's Newspaper
Fight Continues Over 5th & Flower Station For Regional Connector
Blog Downtown
The Future Of Urban Sustainable Mobility: Go Beyond The Car
The City Fix
High-Speed Rail Project Hit By Civil Rights Complaint: Two Groups Contend That Minority Businesses Have Been Largely Left Out Of California Bullet-Train Contracts So Far
Los Angeles Times
House Punts On Budget, Votes On Yearlong Extension Instead
StreetsBlog DC
L.A. Might Allow Residents To Park In Front Of Their Driveways
Los Angeles Times
Let "Mad Men's" Peter Kartheiser Sell You On Public Transit
Curbed LA
Lisa Korbatov Takes Over As BHUSD President (Top priority: "Fighting the MTA's plan to possibly tunnel under the high school as part of the Westside Subway Extension. I have so many other goals for the district, but everything I do will be for naught if there are subway tunnels under the high school.")
Beverly Hills Patch
Mica Confirmed As Transpo Committee Chair
StreetsBlog DC
Minority Groups Demand Feds Pull California High-Speed Rail Funds
San Jose Mercury News
Monrovia Gets Major State Grant For Gold Line-Related Development
Pasadena Star-News
Najarian On 710: Before We Pay For EIR, Let's Know The Cost
StreetsBlog LA
New Tax Deal Puts Build America Program In Jeopardy
Infrastructurist
Serpentine Swedish Setup Turns Freeways Into Power Plants ("The entire paved surface of the Santa Monica Freeway between downtown L.A. and the coastline offers 10 million square feet of space for solar panels, which Tham estimates could provide 115 MW — enough to power the needs of a city like Venice, California.")
Wired
So You're Thinking Of Starting An Infrastructure Bank... ("There may be one reform on which the Obama Administration and the new House regime can agree: the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank.")
Transportation Nation
Temporary Extension Of Surface Transportation Law Will Enable Next Congress To Pursue Transformation Reauthorization In 2011
Transportation For America
This Is What A Bicycle Parking Garage Looks Like (video)
GOOD
Transportation Infrastructure Policies May Leave Economy Gridlocked ("The American Society of Civil Engineers continues to urge Congress and the White House to take a leadership position on ensuring that the nation's transportation infrastructure is able to meet our needs, both
now, and in the future.")
PR Newswire
