TheSource.metro.net
The 710 On Trial: Find Out How Freeway Expansion Could Affect You
Green LA Girl
710 Tunnel Outreach Starts
Glendale News Press
2010 Will Be A Busy Year for Transit Advocates In Los Angeles
LA StreetsBlog
Building America’s Future Brings Bipartisanship To Rebuilding The Country (the push for a National Infrastructure Bank)
Transportation For America
Community Briefed On 710 Extension, Community Not Pleased
LA Curbed
Culver City Draft Bicycle And Pedestrian Network Plan Available For Review
Be A Green Commuter
Eastside Gold Line To Get Added Security Measures
EGP News
High-Speed Rail Line Worth $42.6 Billion?
Orange County Register
How Often Is The Gas Tax Raised? Most Americans Have No Clue
Infrastructurist
Media On The I-405 Widening: It’s Going To Take Awhile, But It’s Totally Worth It!
LA StreetsBlog
More On The New U.S. Federal Transit "New Starts" Guidelines
Human Transit
More Proof That L.A. Isn’t Getting Its Fair Share Of Stimulus And Federal Funds
LA StreetsBlog
NTSB Blames Engineer For 2008 Metrolink Crash, Urges Railroads To Install Cameras To Monitor Train Crews
Los Angeles Times
RFID Research To Make Transit Workers More Safe
Metro Magazine
Stimulus Plan? Taking Transit Can Save You $10,000
EDF Way2Go Blog
To Create Jobs, Build Public Transit, Not Highways
Wired
U.S. DOT Previews How New Transit Rules Could Define “Livability”
DC StreetsBlog
1/21/2010
Transportation Headlines for Thursday January 21, 2010
TheSource.metro.net
Activists respond To DASH Cuts And Hikes: LADOT Schedules Public Hearings
LA StreetsBlog
America Comes Around To Roundabouts
Wired
Backing Up Twitter And Facebook Posts Challenges Governments
Government Technology
Financing Transportation In An Age Of Political Cowardice
Transport Politic
Food Carts Take The Curse Off Portland's Parking Lots
New Urban News
LA Coping Kit: Mindful Driving
Huffington Post
LAX Expansion Foes Critical Of Proposed 405 Fwy / Arbor Vitae Interchange
Contra Costa Times
LOHA Big Blue Bus Stops On Their Way to Santa Monica Curbs
LA Curbed
Metro Rapid, Or What We Could’ve Had If Catoe Stayed (a look at L.A. Metro’s accomplishments from a D.C. perspective)
Greater Greater Washington
Metrolink Closes Crossing For Repairs Jan. 30-31
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Metrolink Responds To Public Suggestions: Turnstyles, Food/Alcohol Trains, Staff Layoffs, And Advertising Billboards
TransitRiderOC
No Commitment From President Obama On $500 Billion Transportation Bill
The Hill
No, We Don't Need To Vote Again
California High Speed Rail Blog
NTSB Opens Meeting On Causes Of Chatsworth Train Crash
Los Angeles Times
Parking Availability Bias
How We Drive
Three Paths To A Low-Car City
Human Transit
TriMet Light-Rail Substation Incorporates Art, Wind, Sun
Oregonian
Activists respond To DASH Cuts And Hikes: LADOT Schedules Public Hearings
LA StreetsBlog
America Comes Around To Roundabouts
Wired
Backing Up Twitter And Facebook Posts Challenges Governments
Government Technology
Financing Transportation In An Age Of Political Cowardice
Transport Politic
Food Carts Take The Curse Off Portland's Parking Lots
New Urban News
LA Coping Kit: Mindful Driving
Huffington Post
LAX Expansion Foes Critical Of Proposed 405 Fwy / Arbor Vitae Interchange
Contra Costa Times
LOHA Big Blue Bus Stops On Their Way to Santa Monica Curbs
LA Curbed
Metro Rapid, Or What We Could’ve Had If Catoe Stayed (a look at L.A. Metro’s accomplishments from a D.C. perspective)
Greater Greater Washington
Metrolink Closes Crossing For Repairs Jan. 30-31
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Metrolink Responds To Public Suggestions: Turnstyles, Food/Alcohol Trains, Staff Layoffs, And Advertising Billboards
TransitRiderOC
No Commitment From President Obama On $500 Billion Transportation Bill
The Hill
No, We Don't Need To Vote Again
California High Speed Rail Blog
NTSB Opens Meeting On Causes Of Chatsworth Train Crash
Los Angeles Times
Parking Availability Bias
How We Drive
Three Paths To A Low-Car City
Human Transit
TriMet Light-Rail Substation Incorporates Art, Wind, Sun
Oregonian
1/20/2010
Transportation Headlines for Wednesday January 20, 2010
TheSource.metro.net
America’s 75 Worst Commutes (#1: Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles)
Daily Beast
Are New Transit Guidelines An Improvement?
National Journal Transportation Blog
BBB Proposes Big Fare Increases (Big Blue Bus)
Santa Monica Daily Press
Before And “AVTA:” New Direct Commuter Bus Service From Antelope Valley (to UCLA)
Be A Green Commuter!
Blogging From TRB: More Prep For A Performance-Based Reauthorization
The City Fix
Californians For High Speed Rail Launches Grassroots Organizing Effort
California High Speed Rail Blog
Cities For Cycling Embrace European Street Designs (National Association of City Transportation Officials launch initiative to help members better plan for and implement cycling infrastructure)
Governing
Communities Put A Halt To Red-Light Cameras
USA Today
"Emergency Brake" Confuses Many On Subway
New York Times
Every Streets Is A Bike Route
LA StreetsBlog
Final Report On Deadly Metrolink Crash Comes Down To Signal Color: As The National Transportation Safety Board Meets This Week To Draft Its Conclusion On The Chatsworth Collision, Members Must Resolve Eyewitness Reports Of A Green Light And Technical Evidence Showing It Was Red
Los Angeles Times
George Takai: Transit Geek (interview with former SCRTD Board member)
Track Twenty-Nine
How News Happens: Listening Devices On Buses?
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
Inland Cities Urged To Blend Development With Transit Hubs
Riverside Press-Enterprise
L.A. Airport Official Named By Obama To Run TSA Withdraws
Los Angeles Times
LA Area’s Fourth Proposed Freeway Park Gets A Push
LA Curbed
LADOT Officials Want To Tow You After 3 Unpaid Parking Tickets
LAist
LA Traffic And Mother Nature
MetroRiderLA
Lake Avenue Gold Line Station Upgrades Are Nearly Working Like Clockwork
Pasadena Star-News
New Energy Hubs: Transit-Oriented Development Meets District Energy
WorldChanging
Obama Quietly Gets Federal Agencies Involved In Transport Planning
LA StreetsBlog
A Public Transit Option To The New Football Stadium?
LA Curbed
Retro-Future Neon BART Excitement (various vibrant maps of abandoned plans for subway linking San Francisco to Marin County)
Burrito Justice
Southern California Transit Forum (Orange, Calif. : February 15, 2010)
Orange County Transportation Authority
The Status Report: Obama's Plan To Rebuild American Prosperity (rating the President's first year on infrastructure spending, policy reforms, and innovation)
Brookings Institution
Transportation Quandary: “Anyone Listening Out There?”
CitiWire
Union Pacific Monster Train (10:31 video: 18,061 foot long train passing through Southern California Jan. 10, 2010)
Chasing Steel You Tube channel
America’s 75 Worst Commutes (#1: Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles)
Daily Beast
Are New Transit Guidelines An Improvement?
National Journal Transportation Blog
BBB Proposes Big Fare Increases (Big Blue Bus)
Santa Monica Daily Press
Before And “AVTA:” New Direct Commuter Bus Service From Antelope Valley (to UCLA)
Be A Green Commuter!
Blogging From TRB: More Prep For A Performance-Based Reauthorization
The City Fix
Californians For High Speed Rail Launches Grassroots Organizing Effort
California High Speed Rail Blog
Cities For Cycling Embrace European Street Designs (National Association of City Transportation Officials launch initiative to help members better plan for and implement cycling infrastructure)
Governing
Communities Put A Halt To Red-Light Cameras
USA Today
"Emergency Brake" Confuses Many On Subway
New York Times
Every Streets Is A Bike Route
LA StreetsBlog
Final Report On Deadly Metrolink Crash Comes Down To Signal Color: As The National Transportation Safety Board Meets This Week To Draft Its Conclusion On The Chatsworth Collision, Members Must Resolve Eyewitness Reports Of A Green Light And Technical Evidence Showing It Was Red
Los Angeles Times
George Takai: Transit Geek (interview with former SCRTD Board member)
Track Twenty-Nine
How News Happens: Listening Devices On Buses?
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
Inland Cities Urged To Blend Development With Transit Hubs
Riverside Press-Enterprise
L.A. Airport Official Named By Obama To Run TSA Withdraws
Los Angeles Times
LA Area’s Fourth Proposed Freeway Park Gets A Push
LA Curbed
LADOT Officials Want To Tow You After 3 Unpaid Parking Tickets
LAist
LA Traffic And Mother Nature
MetroRiderLA
Lake Avenue Gold Line Station Upgrades Are Nearly Working Like Clockwork
Pasadena Star-News
New Energy Hubs: Transit-Oriented Development Meets District Energy
WorldChanging
Obama Quietly Gets Federal Agencies Involved In Transport Planning
LA StreetsBlog
A Public Transit Option To The New Football Stadium?
LA Curbed
Retro-Future Neon BART Excitement (various vibrant maps of abandoned plans for subway linking San Francisco to Marin County)
Burrito Justice
Southern California Transit Forum (Orange, Calif. : February 15, 2010)
Orange County Transportation Authority
The Status Report: Obama's Plan To Rebuild American Prosperity (rating the President's first year on infrastructure spending, policy reforms, and innovation)
Brookings Institution
Transportation Quandary: “Anyone Listening Out There?”
CitiWire
Union Pacific Monster Train (10:31 video: 18,061 foot long train passing through Southern California Jan. 10, 2010)
Chasing Steel You Tube channel
1/19/2010
Transportation Headlines for Tuesday January 19, 2010
TheSource.metro.net
Agencies Work Out Kinks In Compass: Transit Card To Get Full Rollout In Spring
San Diego Union-Tribune
Alameda Corridor East Hoping For Federal, State And County Money
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Big Blue Bus City's Biggest Liability
Santa Monica Daily Press
A Big Train Fan Tracks A Really Big Train: Railroad Enthusiast Joe Perry Got Wind Of An 18,000-Foot-Long "Monster" Freight Train Heading to Los Angeles. He Shot Videos - As Well As What Might Be The Only Still Photo Of The Entire Behemoth
Los Angeles Times
Caltrans Revives Plan For A New 405 Interchange (at Arbor Vitae near LAX)
Daily Breeze
Environmental documents
Caltrans Takes The Road Less Costly To Ease Gridlock: The Agency Hopes That Lights, Signs And New Lane Flexibility Can Help The Interchange Of The 110 And 5 Freeways
Los Angeles Times
Cities Develop Alternative Bus Networks To Combat Perceived Disadvantages Of Mainline Routes
Transport Politic
City Hall To Take First Step On Freeway Capping Plan
Santa Monica Daily Press
Cleaner Buses Can Create Jobs, Improve The Environment
Transportation For America
Full-text report (34p. PDF)
The Coolest Park & Ride Ever (Portland takes cues from L.A. as an interdisciplinary team of urban designers, architects, and analysts have proposed a neo-retro-futurist scenario for making downtown nearly car-free by 2050)
Hugeasscity
Cutting Transit Means Cutting Independence
DC StreetsBlog
The Downtown Park Push: Community Largely Devoid Of Green Space Sees Four New Proposed Projects
Los Angeles Downtown News
The High Cost Of Free Parking: The Movie
Human Transit
High-Speed Rail: Toward Least Worst Projections
New Geography
HSR Doesn’t Have To Be Strange And Unfamiliar
California High Speed Rail Blog
Integrating Bus Rapid Transit Into The Streetscape
Transport Politic
Last Year’s Bike Summit Morphs Into This Year’s StreetSummit
LA StreetsBlog
Metrolink Cuts Up To 60% Of Service On Some OC Train Lines; Is OCTA To Blame?
TransitRider OC
Our View: Back The Regional Park-And-Ride
Pasadena Star-News
Our View: Two Tracks For Gold Line East
Pasadena Star-News
Port Chief: Long Beach Needs A New Bridge
Southern California Public Radio
Rosa Parks Gets A Facelift (Community workshops outline improvements for the second most-used station in L.A. Metro's system where Blue Line and Green Line meet)
Plus Metro
SO.CA.TA Wants Your Help Gathering Signatures To Get Transit Protections On The Ballot
LA StreetsBlog
Speed Sensors On Red-Light Cameras Could Raise Money Fast
Los Angeles Times
The Stigma, Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bus
Riding In Riverside
Updates On SoCal To Vegas HSR
California High Speed Rail Blog
Vaporizing The Gas Tax Myth
Planetizen
Agencies Work Out Kinks In Compass: Transit Card To Get Full Rollout In Spring
San Diego Union-Tribune
Alameda Corridor East Hoping For Federal, State And County Money
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Big Blue Bus City's Biggest Liability
Santa Monica Daily Press
A Big Train Fan Tracks A Really Big Train: Railroad Enthusiast Joe Perry Got Wind Of An 18,000-Foot-Long "Monster" Freight Train Heading to Los Angeles. He Shot Videos - As Well As What Might Be The Only Still Photo Of The Entire Behemoth
Los Angeles Times
Caltrans Revives Plan For A New 405 Interchange (at Arbor Vitae near LAX)
Daily Breeze
Environmental documents
Caltrans Takes The Road Less Costly To Ease Gridlock: The Agency Hopes That Lights, Signs And New Lane Flexibility Can Help The Interchange Of The 110 And 5 Freeways
Los Angeles Times
Cities Develop Alternative Bus Networks To Combat Perceived Disadvantages Of Mainline Routes
Transport Politic
City Hall To Take First Step On Freeway Capping Plan
Santa Monica Daily Press
Cleaner Buses Can Create Jobs, Improve The Environment
Transportation For America
Full-text report (34p. PDF)
The Coolest Park & Ride Ever (Portland takes cues from L.A. as an interdisciplinary team of urban designers, architects, and analysts have proposed a neo-retro-futurist scenario for making downtown nearly car-free by 2050)
Hugeasscity
Cutting Transit Means Cutting Independence
DC StreetsBlog
The Downtown Park Push: Community Largely Devoid Of Green Space Sees Four New Proposed Projects
Los Angeles Downtown News
The High Cost Of Free Parking: The Movie
Human Transit
High-Speed Rail: Toward Least Worst Projections
New Geography
HSR Doesn’t Have To Be Strange And Unfamiliar
California High Speed Rail Blog
Integrating Bus Rapid Transit Into The Streetscape
Transport Politic
Last Year’s Bike Summit Morphs Into This Year’s StreetSummit
LA StreetsBlog
Metrolink Cuts Up To 60% Of Service On Some OC Train Lines; Is OCTA To Blame?
TransitRider OC
Our View: Back The Regional Park-And-Ride
Pasadena Star-News
Our View: Two Tracks For Gold Line East
Pasadena Star-News
Port Chief: Long Beach Needs A New Bridge
Southern California Public Radio
Rosa Parks Gets A Facelift (Community workshops outline improvements for the second most-used station in L.A. Metro's system where Blue Line and Green Line meet)
Plus Metro
SO.CA.TA Wants Your Help Gathering Signatures To Get Transit Protections On The Ballot
LA StreetsBlog
Speed Sensors On Red-Light Cameras Could Raise Money Fast
Los Angeles Times
The Stigma, Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bus
Riding In Riverside
Updates On SoCal To Vegas HSR
California High Speed Rail Blog
Vaporizing The Gas Tax Myth
Planetizen
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