Another U.S. Federal Agency On Board With Sustainable Transport
The City Fix
A Bike Race Through The Deserted Streets Of Los Angeles (Los Angeles bicycle crew organizes a bike race along the route of the L.A. Marathon the night before the race. The closed streets create a 26.2-mile urban raceway that is seen only once a year)
GOOD
Clayton County Loses Vital Bus Service, Link To Atlanta: Many Workers Fear They’ll Lose Their Jobs Without The Transportation, Cut Off Because Of A County Budget Shortfall
Los Angeles Times
Five Things You Need To Know About High-Speed Rail
Planetizen
Planetizen Launches High Speed Rail News Blog
Friday Tolls Tops $10 On 91 Express Lanes Under New Rates
Riverside Press-Enterprise
How America Led, And Lost, The High-Speed Rail Race
Progressive Fix
Is Metro Ready For “30 In 10?”
StreetsBlog LA
Metrolink Board Considers Cutting Inland Trains, Raising Fares
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Moscow Subway Attack: Five Ways To Make Mass Transit Safer
Christian Science Monitor
Name The Train: ATL Turns To Social Media
Transit Wire
New Report: Congress Should Boost Truck Efficiency By Raising Gas Tax
StreetsBlog DC
New Survey: 84% Of Transit Agencies Facing Fare Hikes, Service Cuts
StreetsBlog DC
APTA Press Release
Survey Results (8p. PDF)
Sensors Make Cities Smarter: In The Not Too Distant Future, Cameras And Sensors Will Empower Officials To Monitor Constantly Changing Dynamics
Governing
Transit Agencies Search For Silver Lining To Financial Hardship: Is There A Silver Lining To The Budget Crises That Have Plagued Public Transit Providers Across The U.S.? (Top executives at some of the nation’s hard-hit transit properties respond)
Transit Talent
The True Cost Of A Miserable Commute
StreetsBlog
Up Your Alley: Hidden Development In SF Alleys (Whether they've formed organically over thee years or through direct encouragement from city policies, a number of activated alleys in San Francisco show that these often overlooked urban areas can play a valuable role in the urban realm)
Examiner
Using Social Media To Make Transit Fun!
Planning Pool
4/01/2010
Transportation Headlines for Thursday April 1, 2010
Can New Technology Make Mass Transit Safe?
Infrastructurist
Could Gas-Tax Bonds Pay For The Next Federal Transportation Bill?
StreetsBlog DC
DHS Has Completed Incident Planning For A Moscow-Like Explosive Attack (but it is the only one of 15 hypothetical terrorist attack scenarios with a completed strategic guidance statement, strategic plan, concept plan and operations plan)
Government Security News
Half Of All [New York] Subway Security Cameras Don’t Work
Huffington Post
Housing And Transportation Squeeze Hitting Rural America, New Report Concludes
Transportation For America
How Long Will It Take To Bring High Speed Rail To California? (interview with Jeffrey Barker, Deputy Executive Director for Communications, Policy and Public Outreach, California High-Speed Rail Authority and Pat Merrill, Assistant Vice-President for Policy & Development West, Amtrak)
KPBS
Is Caltrans Running Over The History Of L.A.’s Oldest Freeway? (Highland Park Heritage Trust asks California Office Of Historic Preservation order a stop to construction work they claim threatens or damages historic features of the Pasadena Freeway)
Eastsider LA
Letter From India: Railway Exams Not A Free Ride (audio : India's Railway Exams, given to aspiring guards, ticket collectors and drivers, ask a surprising variety of difficult questions. Competition for jobs on the railway is extreme — by one account there are 20,000 applicants for one ticket collector job)
National Public Radio
Los Angeles: The "Psychology Of The Place?"
Human Transit
Metrolink Train Crews Threaten Boycott Over Personality Test Requirement
Los Angeles Times
Metrolink May Raise Fares, Cut Service
Orange County Register
National TOD Organization Offers A Hand To Los Angeles
StreetsBlog LA
New Film Series Showcases City Transportation Innovations
The City Fix
National Association Of City Transportation Officials’ Best Practice Videos
Personal Infrastructures Take You On The Metro, A Bike, And Into Your Neighbor's House
Curbed LA
Public Gets Peek At $444 Million I-5 Project
Orange County Register
Proposed Texting Ban For Commercial Truck And Bus Drivers Pioneers Innovative E-Rulemaking Partnership
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Restructuring The Commercial Strip: A Practical Guide For Planning The Revitalization Of Deteriorating Strip Corridors (64p. PDF)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Success In The South Bay: South Bay Bicycle Coalition
Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
TAD Or TOD? A Look At The W At Hollywood And Vine
StreetsBlog LA
What Happens When You Remove All Traffic Signs? A German Town Finds Out (In a counterintuitive approach to reducing car accidents and making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, a town has nixed all traffic signs and traffic lights in the town center)
Christian Science Monitor
What’s Bugging You? Parking Restrictions (video : LADOT responds to complaints about outdated restricted parking signage on newly reconfigured James M. Woods Blvd. near downtown)
KABC-7
Infrastructurist
Could Gas-Tax Bonds Pay For The Next Federal Transportation Bill?
StreetsBlog DC
DHS Has Completed Incident Planning For A Moscow-Like Explosive Attack (but it is the only one of 15 hypothetical terrorist attack scenarios with a completed strategic guidance statement, strategic plan, concept plan and operations plan)
Government Security News
Half Of All [New York] Subway Security Cameras Don’t Work
Huffington Post
Housing And Transportation Squeeze Hitting Rural America, New Report Concludes
Transportation For America
How Long Will It Take To Bring High Speed Rail To California? (interview with Jeffrey Barker, Deputy Executive Director for Communications, Policy and Public Outreach, California High-Speed Rail Authority and Pat Merrill, Assistant Vice-President for Policy & Development West, Amtrak)
KPBS
Is Caltrans Running Over The History Of L.A.’s Oldest Freeway? (Highland Park Heritage Trust asks California Office Of Historic Preservation order a stop to construction work they claim threatens or damages historic features of the Pasadena Freeway)
Eastsider LA
Letter From India: Railway Exams Not A Free Ride (audio : India's Railway Exams, given to aspiring guards, ticket collectors and drivers, ask a surprising variety of difficult questions. Competition for jobs on the railway is extreme — by one account there are 20,000 applicants for one ticket collector job)
National Public Radio
Los Angeles: The "Psychology Of The Place?"
Human Transit
Metrolink Train Crews Threaten Boycott Over Personality Test Requirement
Los Angeles Times
Metrolink May Raise Fares, Cut Service
Orange County Register
National TOD Organization Offers A Hand To Los Angeles
StreetsBlog LA
New Film Series Showcases City Transportation Innovations
The City Fix
National Association Of City Transportation Officials’ Best Practice Videos
Personal Infrastructures Take You On The Metro, A Bike, And Into Your Neighbor's House
Curbed LA
Public Gets Peek At $444 Million I-5 Project
Orange County Register
Proposed Texting Ban For Commercial Truck And Bus Drivers Pioneers Innovative E-Rulemaking Partnership
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Restructuring The Commercial Strip: A Practical Guide For Planning The Revitalization Of Deteriorating Strip Corridors (64p. PDF)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Success In The South Bay: South Bay Bicycle Coalition
Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
TAD Or TOD? A Look At The W At Hollywood And Vine
StreetsBlog LA
What Happens When You Remove All Traffic Signs? A German Town Finds Out (In a counterintuitive approach to reducing car accidents and making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, a town has nixed all traffic signs and traffic lights in the town center)
Christian Science Monitor
What’s Bugging You? Parking Restrictions (video : LADOT responds to complaints about outdated restricted parking signage on newly reconfigured James M. Woods Blvd. near downtown)
KABC-7
3/31/2010
Transportation Headlines for Wednesday March 31, 2010
48 Years Ago: Downtown Encircled By Freeways
Blog Downtown
Another Reason For Congestion Pricing
Yglesias Think Progress
Federal Sign Language Tests Local Budgets
Daily Reporter
Following The Money (In an effort to improve accountability, more government agencies are freeing data about public expenditures)
Next American City
How Quickly Will Caltrans Embrace Complete Streets Guidelines?
StreetsBlog SF
If Oil Production Declines, Will HSR Opposition Decline With It?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Light Rail Or A Streetcar For Warner Center? L.A. To Apply For Transit Grant (Woodland Hills’ “Centers Concept”)
LAist
Los Angeles: The Next Great Transit Metropolis?
Human Transit
MTA Ramps Up Security After Dozens Are Killed In Moscow Subway Blasts
Whittier Daily News
New Poll Shows Americans Strongly Support Public Transportation; More Walking & Biking
Transportation For America
Future Of Transportation National Survey (2010)
Detailed Findings
Osborn Architects Re-Imagines Paved Parking Lots As An Urban Forest (proposal to re-purpose struggling auto dealerships on Glendale’s Brand Boulevard)
Inhabitat
Regional Congestion Relief For The Cost Of A Latte
Greater Greater Washington
San Francisco First City In The Nation To Count Its Parking Spaces ("Without the basic knowledge, [city planners] have no basis on which to make decisions about future supply policy, about current management policy or even about how their transportation systems are working.")
StreetsBlog SF
SF Park (project collecting and distributing real-time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces)
Study: Only 2.5% Can Safely Drive & Phone
CBS News
Walkshed Technologies And The Smart City
World Changing
Wall Street Swaps Haunting Cities: How Many Transit Agencies Hold Them?
StreetsBlog DC
What Moscow’s Subway Terrorist Attack Really Means For LA
Huffington Post
Winging It: Transportation Funding Bridges Political Divide
Philadelphia Inquirer
Blog Downtown
Another Reason For Congestion Pricing
Yglesias Think Progress
Federal Sign Language Tests Local Budgets
Daily Reporter
Following The Money (In an effort to improve accountability, more government agencies are freeing data about public expenditures)
Next American City
How Quickly Will Caltrans Embrace Complete Streets Guidelines?
StreetsBlog SF
If Oil Production Declines, Will HSR Opposition Decline With It?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Light Rail Or A Streetcar For Warner Center? L.A. To Apply For Transit Grant (Woodland Hills’ “Centers Concept”)
LAist
Los Angeles: The Next Great Transit Metropolis?
Human Transit
MTA Ramps Up Security After Dozens Are Killed In Moscow Subway Blasts
Whittier Daily News
New Poll Shows Americans Strongly Support Public Transportation; More Walking & Biking
Transportation For America
Future Of Transportation National Survey (2010)
Detailed Findings
Osborn Architects Re-Imagines Paved Parking Lots As An Urban Forest (proposal to re-purpose struggling auto dealerships on Glendale’s Brand Boulevard)
Inhabitat
Regional Congestion Relief For The Cost Of A Latte
Greater Greater Washington
San Francisco First City In The Nation To Count Its Parking Spaces ("Without the basic knowledge, [city planners] have no basis on which to make decisions about future supply policy, about current management policy or even about how their transportation systems are working.")
StreetsBlog SF
SF Park (project collecting and distributing real-time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces)
Study: Only 2.5% Can Safely Drive & Phone
CBS News
Walkshed Technologies And The Smart City
World Changing
Wall Street Swaps Haunting Cities: How Many Transit Agencies Hold Them?
StreetsBlog DC
What Moscow’s Subway Terrorist Attack Really Means For LA
Huffington Post
Winging It: Transportation Funding Bridges Political Divide
Philadelphia Inquirer
3/30/2010
Transportation Headlines for Tuesday March 30, 2010
The 11 Mobile Apps You Need To Get Around Any City
Infrastructurist
Bike Corrals For The City Of Los Angeles
StreetsBlog LA
Bus Riders See Inequities In Proposed [D.C.] Metro Fare Increases
Washington Post
China Express Train Forces Airlines To Stop Flights
Reuters
Could D.C. Become Transit’s New Civil Rights Battleground?
StreetsBlog DC
Crenshaw Line Update Comes With Blocks And Play-Doh
Curbed LA
Cubic Smart Card System In San Diego County Gaining Momentum: Expanded Sales, Distribution Channels Available For Compass Cardholders
CNN
Denver 2022: Bid For The Games In Order To Win A $20 Billion Mountain Rail System
Colorado Independent
DesertXpress On Track To Break Ground This Year
California High Speed Rail Blog
“A Dozen Or So” Senators Delay Passage Of Oberstar’s Highway Funding Fix
StreetsBlog DC
Dreams Of El Monte Transit Village Inches Toward Reality
Pasadena Star-News
Forty Years Later, An Empty Pit Remains Across The Street From City Hall
Franklin Avenue
How To Cut Freight Pollution Part II: Prioritize Federal Spending To Support Innovation
Environmental Defense Fund Way2Go Blog
Illusions Of Travel Time In Transit Promotion
Human Transit
In Burbank, A Road Diet Appears On Verdugo Avenue
StreetsBlog LA
Metro And OCTA Call On CHSRA To Study Track Sharing For LA-Anaheim Segment
California High Speed Rail Blog
New Poll: Support For Transit Expansion Transcends Rural-Urban Divide
StreetsBlog DC
Our View: Continue Gold Line's Formula For Success
Pasadena Star-News
Politicians Ask, And The [New York] M.T.A. Jots It Down
New York Times
Streetcars Vs. Light Rail: Is There A Difference?
Human Transit
Successful Transit Oriented Development Requires Successful, Valued Transit
Rebuilding Place In The Urban Space
Transit Systems Reinforce Security Measures
Wall Street Journal
Transportation Infrastructure: How To Improve The “Transeconomy?” Invest In Infrastructure Now!
Logistics Management
Yale Directing Parking Students To Transit (Anyone who pays to park on campus and who lives within a quarter-mile radius of a Yale Shuttle or transit stop, or within two miles of a train station, will receive an e-mail outlining, in very specific and personalized terms, transit options)
Metro Magazine
You're Welcome, Mr. Antonovich, For The Foothill Gold Line
CityWatch
Infrastructurist
Bike Corrals For The City Of Los Angeles
StreetsBlog LA
Bus Riders See Inequities In Proposed [D.C.] Metro Fare Increases
Washington Post
China Express Train Forces Airlines To Stop Flights
Reuters
Could D.C. Become Transit’s New Civil Rights Battleground?
StreetsBlog DC
Crenshaw Line Update Comes With Blocks And Play-Doh
Curbed LA
Cubic Smart Card System In San Diego County Gaining Momentum: Expanded Sales, Distribution Channels Available For Compass Cardholders
CNN
Denver 2022: Bid For The Games In Order To Win A $20 Billion Mountain Rail System
Colorado Independent
DesertXpress On Track To Break Ground This Year
California High Speed Rail Blog
“A Dozen Or So” Senators Delay Passage Of Oberstar’s Highway Funding Fix
StreetsBlog DC
Dreams Of El Monte Transit Village Inches Toward Reality
Pasadena Star-News
Forty Years Later, An Empty Pit Remains Across The Street From City Hall
Franklin Avenue
How To Cut Freight Pollution Part II: Prioritize Federal Spending To Support Innovation
Environmental Defense Fund Way2Go Blog
Illusions Of Travel Time In Transit Promotion
Human Transit
In Burbank, A Road Diet Appears On Verdugo Avenue
StreetsBlog LA
Metro And OCTA Call On CHSRA To Study Track Sharing For LA-Anaheim Segment
California High Speed Rail Blog
New Poll: Support For Transit Expansion Transcends Rural-Urban Divide
StreetsBlog DC
Our View: Continue Gold Line's Formula For Success
Pasadena Star-News
Politicians Ask, And The [New York] M.T.A. Jots It Down
New York Times
Streetcars Vs. Light Rail: Is There A Difference?
Human Transit
Successful Transit Oriented Development Requires Successful, Valued Transit
Rebuilding Place In The Urban Space
Transit Systems Reinforce Security Measures
Wall Street Journal
Transportation Infrastructure: How To Improve The “Transeconomy?” Invest In Infrastructure Now!
Logistics Management
Yale Directing Parking Students To Transit (Anyone who pays to park on campus and who lives within a quarter-mile radius of a Yale Shuttle or transit stop, or within two miles of a train station, will receive an e-mail outlining, in very specific and personalized terms, transit options)
Metro Magazine
You're Welcome, Mr. Antonovich, For The Foothill Gold Line
CityWatch
3/29/2010
Transportation Headlines for Monday March 29, 2010
Around The Muni In 80 Days: Man Plans S.F. Transit Odyssey (Quest to ride all 80 Muni lines in 80 days because “real life happens on Muni”)
San Francisco Weekly
His “Man Vs. Muni” Flickr photostream
California Led States In Increasing Taxes Last Year
Sacramento Bee
Caltrain Set To Approve Plans To Electrify Railroad
San Jose Mercury News
City Wants To Lower Red Light Camera Fines & Reap Higher Revenues At The Same Time
LAist
Corona Man Envisions New Commuting Option (He proposes stops along Highways 91, 55, 57 and 22 in Riverside and Orange counties, linked by vehicles that give riders their own space, provide a chair and table, and take them to the station of their choice for around 70 cents a mile in eight-person vehicles)
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Economy Roughs-Up Transit; Thousands Of Jobs In The Balance
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Gold Line To Azusa To Be Funded For 2014
Pasadena Star-News
How To Cut Freight Pollution, Part I: Port And Rail Corridor Examples
Environmental Defense Fund Way2Go Blog
L.A., Long Beach Ports Need A Rising Tide Of Exports: The Seaport Complex's Reliance On Imports Subjected The Region To More Economic Pain
Los Angeles Times
Let’s All Welcome The New Kid! (LADOT launches Bike Blog)
LADOT Bike Blog
LADOT Bicycle Services
Los Angeles’ Gold Line Foothill Extension Approved For Funding, Will Begin Construction Later This Year
Tranpsort Politic
New Life For L.A. Central: Moinian Extends Financing, Parking Returns
Blog Downtown
New Stimulus Data: Road Funds 77% Under Contract, Transit At 74%
StreetsBlog DC
New York Has The Edge In Learning To Share The Road
Los Angeles Times
Oberstar Stays Optimistic About New Transport Bill In 2010
StreetsBlog DC
Rumor: Metro Rescinds TAP Corner Notch Policy
StreetsBlog LA
Second TSA Nominee Withdraws His Name
Washington Post
Service Cuts Approved
Riding In Riverside
Should Next Surface Transportation Bill Add Provision To Keep Programs Going?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Slaughterhouse ’10: The Gutting Of State And Local Government
Huffington Post
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood: “We’ve Made Some Progress, But We Need To Do More”
Huffington Post
Underpass Park A Key Step In Don Lands Transformation (land underneath a Toronto highway overpass will be converted into a community park, with officials hoping it will spark a revival of an underused neighborhood)
Daily Commercial News And Construction Record
U.S. Officials Eager To Climb Aboard Villaraigosa's L.A. Transit Plan: Even Some Lawmakers From Other States See Merit In The Los Angeles Mayor's Idea For Massive Federal Loans To Ease Congestion And Create Jobs
Los Angeles Times
What's So Scary About Bicycle Infrastructure?
StreetsBlog
San Francisco Weekly
His “Man Vs. Muni” Flickr photostream
California Led States In Increasing Taxes Last Year
Sacramento Bee
Caltrain Set To Approve Plans To Electrify Railroad
San Jose Mercury News
City Wants To Lower Red Light Camera Fines & Reap Higher Revenues At The Same Time
LAist
Corona Man Envisions New Commuting Option (He proposes stops along Highways 91, 55, 57 and 22 in Riverside and Orange counties, linked by vehicles that give riders their own space, provide a chair and table, and take them to the station of their choice for around 70 cents a mile in eight-person vehicles)
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Economy Roughs-Up Transit; Thousands Of Jobs In The Balance
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Gold Line To Azusa To Be Funded For 2014
Pasadena Star-News
How To Cut Freight Pollution, Part I: Port And Rail Corridor Examples
Environmental Defense Fund Way2Go Blog
L.A., Long Beach Ports Need A Rising Tide Of Exports: The Seaport Complex's Reliance On Imports Subjected The Region To More Economic Pain
Los Angeles Times
Let’s All Welcome The New Kid! (LADOT launches Bike Blog)
LADOT Bike Blog
LADOT Bicycle Services
Los Angeles’ Gold Line Foothill Extension Approved For Funding, Will Begin Construction Later This Year
Tranpsort Politic
New Life For L.A. Central: Moinian Extends Financing, Parking Returns
Blog Downtown
New Stimulus Data: Road Funds 77% Under Contract, Transit At 74%
StreetsBlog DC
New York Has The Edge In Learning To Share The Road
Los Angeles Times
Oberstar Stays Optimistic About New Transport Bill In 2010
StreetsBlog DC
Rumor: Metro Rescinds TAP Corner Notch Policy
StreetsBlog LA
Second TSA Nominee Withdraws His Name
Washington Post
Service Cuts Approved
Riding In Riverside
Should Next Surface Transportation Bill Add Provision To Keep Programs Going?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Slaughterhouse ’10: The Gutting Of State And Local Government
Huffington Post
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood: “We’ve Made Some Progress, But We Need To Do More”
Huffington Post
Underpass Park A Key Step In Don Lands Transformation (land underneath a Toronto highway overpass will be converted into a community park, with officials hoping it will spark a revival of an underused neighborhood)
Daily Commercial News And Construction Record
U.S. Officials Eager To Climb Aboard Villaraigosa's L.A. Transit Plan: Even Some Lawmakers From Other States See Merit In The Los Angeles Mayor's Idea For Massive Federal Loans To Ease Congestion And Create Jobs
Los Angeles Times
What's So Scary About Bicycle Infrastructure?
StreetsBlog
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