2.5-Mile Path Opens Along The L.A. River, And A New Map Launches
KCET Departures
Americans Strongly Oppose Proposed Gas Tax Hike
Reuters
Brentwood N.C. Wants Out Of Bus-Only Lanes
StreetsBlog LA
Card Makers Hope To Upset Transit Card Security Status Quo
PC World
The Future Of Sustainable Urban Mobility: Make The Poor A Priority
The City Fix
High-Speed Rail Agency Urged To Rethink Planning
San Francisco Chronicle
If I Forget Thee O Los Angeles Public Transportation
Huffington Post
Insurance Commissioner Poizner Approves California's First-Ever Pay-As-You-Go Drive Auto Insurance Program
California Department Of Insurance Press Release
Measuring Walking & Cycling With PABS: A Low-Cost Survey Method For Local Communities (2p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Metrolink Unveils "Crumple-Proof" Cars
Los Angeles Daily News
Noted Southland Economist Jack Kyser Dies (The founding economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation was chief economic adviser at the Southern California Association of Governments, studied transportation economics for Union Pacific Railroad)
Los Angeles Daily News
Plans For L.A. State Historic Park Scaled Back: The State's Budget Deficit Forces Parks Administrators To Redesign a More Modest Project Atop A Former Railroad Yard East Of Chinatown Near Downtown Los Angeles ("The new plan for Los Angeles State Historic Park calls for a more modest main entryway, a scaled-down visitors center and a 16-foot-high graded-berm walkway that would overlook an archeological dig that is slowly unearthing the railroad roundhouse that served the train yard in the late 1800s.")
Los Angeles Times
Putting The Mute In Commute
Boston Globe
Recovery Act Upgrade Of California's SR 91 Crosses The Finish Line In Anaheim
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Safety Should Be Job 1 For High Speed Rail
California Progress Report
Southland Gas Prices Rise To Highest Since Fall 2008
Los Angeles Daily News
Walk Places, Meet People, And Build Social Capital (Research involving the subject of people who live in walkable communities being more civically involved and having greater levels of trust than those who live in less walkable neighborhoods. This increase in so-called 'social capital' is associated with higher quality of life)
Science Daily
Watchdog Panel Raises Concerns About Bullet Train: Money, Staffing And Planning Challenges Must Be Met Swiftly, Report Warns
Los Angeles Times
What Is AAA Saying? (Should the Federal Highway Trust Fund be restricted to just highways?)
Rails To Trails Conservancy
What The GOP Spending Rollback Would Mean For Transportation
StreetsBlog DC
A Whole New Name Game: Parks, Transit, Schools Consider Corporate Monikers In Bid To Plug Budget Gaps
Wall Street Journal
Would An Infrastructure Bank Have The Power To Reform Transportation?
StreetsBlog DC
Your Guide To The New Draft Of LEED ("A new credit for Reduced Automobile Dependence would replace the old Sustainable Sites (SS) credit for public transportation access. The credit is also completely rewritten. The “transit-served location” roughly encompasses the LEED 2009 version of this credit, but with requirements that appear to be more inclusive. A new “metropolitan planning organization” option would offer credit for project in areas with low vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT).")
Building Green
