10 Web Apps To Help You With Your Transit Needs
AltTransport
American Cities Get Smart About Energy (22 U.S. cities have been named "2010 Smarter Cities" for their investment in green power, energy efficiency measures and conservation. Seven of them are in California)
Natural Resources Defense Council Smarter Cities
Amtrak Chugs Toward Record-Breaking Year
WVNS
Broadway Streetcar Opening Pushed Back: A 2014 Planned Start Will Be Reassessed As Group Focuses On Convincing Stakeholders To Help Pay For Project
Los Angeles Downtown News
Budget Impasse May Hurt Transportation Projects
San Francisco Chronicle
Calif. Bill Would Air Rail Bidders' Holocaust Role
Associated Press
Code For America
Urban Omnibus
Cycling In The City: New Momentum, But Challenges Remain
Blog Downtown
Cyclists v Drivers? They're Often The Same People: Research Suggests A Boom In Cycling Among Affluent "Mid-Life Crisis" Men And Car Owners
Guardian (UK)
Driverless Cars Hit The Road (video : Cars that drive and park themselves are being test-driven through at least six countries)
Reuters
East LA Residents Organize Against 710 Expansion & Evictions
Uprising Radio
The Flying Car Lifts Off
Brand X Daily
The Gold Line's Walk Score
Straight Outta Suburbia
Government By The People: The Importance Of Public Engagement
The City Fix
Happy 15th Birthday, Green Line!
MetroRider LA
High Speed Rail As Economic Recovery
California High Speed Rail Blog
Higher Peak-Time Tolls Mean Less Delays
KALW
Metro's Erasable Line: Calculating Employee Ridership Equals PR Debacle
LAist
NTSB Urges Tighter Controls On Distracted Boating
USA Today
NY's New Deputy Mayor Likes BRT And Congestion Charging, But Does He Like Bike Lanes?
Transportation Nation
Pershing Square Garage Vote Delayed: Critics Say Privatization Plan Could Hike Rates At Downtown Parking Facility
Los Angeles Downtown News
Riverside Officials Press For March Area Bullet Train Stop
Riverside Press-Enterprise
San Francisco's Breaks Ground On Green Transbay Transit Center (includes several renderings of stunning new terminal which features rainwater and greywater catchement systems, wind turbines, geothermal power supply and a massive rooftop park)
Inhabitat
Subway Postponed As MTA Looks Further Into Environmental Affects, Alternative Routes (p. 4-5 of 20p. PDF)
Beverly Hills Weekly
8/13/2010
8/12/2010
Demand-Based "Smart Parking," OCTA Twitter Star, HSR Breaks Ground, Pasadena Rail Meeting & More
$2.8M Earmarked For LCF Sound Walls: Measure R Funds Will Be Used To Design Multiple Segments Along 210 Freeway
La Canada Valley Sun
Bus And Rail Transit Preferential Treatments In Mixed Traffic (212p. PDF)
U.S. Transit Cooperative Research Program
California Drive-Thru Ban And The "Health In All Policies" Approach
The City Fix
California Sees Income Decline For First Time Since World War II
Huffington Post
Demand Based "Smart Parking": Watch How It Works
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Driving Transportation Policy Through Technological Innovation (7p. PDF)
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Interactions
The First High Speed Rail Station Breaks Ground (“CA got the most HSR funding because you all have your act together” -USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood)
California High Speed Rail Blog
Historic Groundbreaking Of First New High-Speed Rail Station In United Sates
Mass Transit
Foreign Firms See Profits In U.S. High-Speed Rail
Philadelphia Inquirer
Freight-Rail Capacity Expansion Bill Enters Senate
Progressive Railroading
Government 2.0: In Twitter World, OCTA Personality Followed By Nearly 27,000 (OCTA Public Communications Manager Ted Nguyen)
Public CEO
How Much Do You Spend On Transport? New Web App Aims To Show You
Grist
Abogo: Transportation Costs Made Transparent
Abogo
L.A. City Council Considers Plan To Partially Privatize Parking Garages; No One Likes Idea
LA Weekly
LA County Sidewalk Riding: Part 2
LADOT Bike Blog
Long Beach Gets Port-Themed Art While It Waits For Its Skyscraper
Curbed LA
Meeting On Proposed Rail Route Is Set For Thursday Night
Pasadena Star-News
Metro Says Many Of Its Higher-Ups Take Transit To Work
Curbed LA
My Message To The National Infrastructure Forum: Obama Administration Meets Transportation Challenges
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Rail Freight Bounces In July
Journal Of Commerce
Seattle May Create Transportation Taxing District
Seattle Times
Settlement Terms Released In Train Derailment
Glendale News-Press
Transparent [D.C.] Metro Data Sets Developer Conference (16p. PDF)
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
La Canada Valley Sun
Bus And Rail Transit Preferential Treatments In Mixed Traffic (212p. PDF)
U.S. Transit Cooperative Research Program
California Drive-Thru Ban And The "Health In All Policies" Approach
The City Fix
California Sees Income Decline For First Time Since World War II
Huffington Post
Demand Based "Smart Parking": Watch How It Works
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Driving Transportation Policy Through Technological Innovation (7p. PDF)
(Register for free limited account)
Interactions
The First High Speed Rail Station Breaks Ground (“CA got the most HSR funding because you all have your act together” -USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood)
California High Speed Rail Blog
Historic Groundbreaking Of First New High-Speed Rail Station In United Sates
Mass Transit
Foreign Firms See Profits In U.S. High-Speed Rail
Philadelphia Inquirer
Freight-Rail Capacity Expansion Bill Enters Senate
Progressive Railroading
Government 2.0: In Twitter World, OCTA Personality Followed By Nearly 27,000 (OCTA Public Communications Manager Ted Nguyen)
Public CEO
How Much Do You Spend On Transport? New Web App Aims To Show You
Grist
Abogo: Transportation Costs Made Transparent
Abogo
L.A. City Council Considers Plan To Partially Privatize Parking Garages; No One Likes Idea
LA Weekly
LA County Sidewalk Riding: Part 2
LADOT Bike Blog
Long Beach Gets Port-Themed Art While It Waits For Its Skyscraper
Curbed LA
Meeting On Proposed Rail Route Is Set For Thursday Night
Pasadena Star-News
Metro Says Many Of Its Higher-Ups Take Transit To Work
Curbed LA
My Message To The National Infrastructure Forum: Obama Administration Meets Transportation Challenges
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Rail Freight Bounces In July
Journal Of Commerce
Seattle May Create Transportation Taxing District
Seattle Times
Settlement Terms Released In Train Derailment
Glendale News-Press
Transparent [D.C.] Metro Data Sets Developer Conference (16p. PDF)
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
8/11/2010
Positive Train Control, Alhambra & HSR, Bikeway Innovations, Go511, Beverly Hills Tunneling & More
City Council Reacts To Metro's Alternate Subway Plans: Concerned Residents Confront City Council About The Possibility Of Digging Subway Tunnels Under Residential Areas
Beverly Hills Patch
Beverly Hills Patch
Information Week
Congestion Pricing: The View From Canada
Human Transit
Winning The Battle With Traffic Congestion: The Benefits Of Accurate Transport Pricing (15p. PDF)
Frontier Centre For Public Policy
Go Go511 Gadget!
Los Angeles County Strategic Plan For Economic Development
Internalizing The Externalized: The Case Of Roads
Planetizen
Kayaking, Rafting & More In The L.A. River? One L.A. City Councilmember Wants It To Happen
LAist
The Key To Cycling Safety? More Cyclists: Traffic-Calming Measures And Bike Lanes Increase The Number Of Cyclists And Decrease The Risk Of Collisions: Study
Montreal Gazette
LA County Sidewalk Riding: Part 1 ("LADOT Bike Blog will compile sidewalk riding rules for every city in LA County. That’s right, we’re going to wade through all the ordinances and municipal codes on this here blog so you don’t have to.")
LADOT Bike Blog
Looking Into Los Angeles Draft Bike Plan Implementation Strategy
StreetsBlog LA
Mass Transit: The Great Train Robbery ("What constitutes transit's primary mission: to carry more people to work or to reshape our metropolitan areas for ever denser development?...Despite promises that the $8 billion invested in rail lines over the past two decades would lessen L.A.'s traffic congestion and reshape how Angelenos get to work, the sad reality is that there has been no increase in MTA transit ridership since before the rail expansion began in 1985.")
Forbes
Momentum Grows For Federal Policy Breakthrough That Would Fast-Track Bikeway Innovations
Bike Portland
NTSB Criticizes [D.C.] Metro Board Over Fatal Crash In 2009
Washington Post
Only About 1 In 100 Metro Employees Ride MTA Trains And Buses
LA Weekly
Parking Dream: Residents Can Set Parking And Traffic Rules City's More Than 900 Private Streets
New York Daily News
Pershing Square's Garage Gamble: Critics Say Lease Plan Could Hike Rate At Downtown Parking Facility
Los Angeles Downtown News
Portugal Has Embraced Renewable Energy, So Why Can't We?
Infrastructurist
Progress Derailed: The Cause & Effect Of NYC's Transit Funding Crisis: Everyone Who Rides Buses Or Subways Knows That Service Is Down And Fares Are Heading Up, But Why Is this Happening? And Does It Spell Danger For The City's Economic Future?
City Limits
PTC: Railroads, Suppliers Still Have A Ways To Go to Meet The 2015 Positive Train Control Mandate
Progressive Railroading
Residents Oppose High-Speed Railway In Alhambra Monday Night
San Marino Tribune
San Francisco: A Free Market In Parking Begins
Human Transit
A Sustainable City Requires Increased Mass Transit Subsidies
Huffington Post
Top 20 Urban Planning Successes Of All TimeResidents Oppose High-Speed Railway In Alhambra Monday Night
San Marino Tribune
San Francisco: A Free Market In Parking Begins
Human Transit
A Sustainable City Requires Increased Mass Transit Subsidies
Huffington Post
Public Servant Blog
A Wider World Of Transportation
Smarter Cities
8/10/2010
30/10 Jobs, Frequency Mapping, Peaks & Paradigms, Freeway Murals, LAEDC Forecast, OCTA Pay, Car-Dependent Waistlines & More
Basics: The Case For Frequency Mapping
Human Transit
Breaking Ground On The Post-Interstate Interstate
Transportation Nation
Can "Webinars" Make Planning Workshops Obsolete?
Planetizen
City Wasted $855K On Parking Enforcement Vehicles, Audit Finds
LAist
Cost The Highest Hurdle For High-Speed Rail In U.S
Philadelphia Inquirer
Disability Groups Suing NYC MTA Over Transit Cuts
Transportation Nation
DOT Appeals To Gen Y Online
NextGov
Dude, Where's My Flying Car?: Understanding Peak Years And Paradigm Shifts In Transportation Modes
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
End Is Near For Some LA Freeway Murals Due To Graffiti
Southern California Public Radio
Guiding Pedestrians: HAWKs In The Lead, While Pelicans And Puffins Fall Behind
The City Fix
How Much Will A Carbon Tax Spur Innovation?
The Atlantic
LA Light Rail: Six Decades And A Zillion $$ In The Making
CityWatch
LAEDC Infrastructure Forecast: Major Capital Investments Ongoing In L.A. County
Planning Report
Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor & Green District Competition ("The competition asks architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, urban planners, students and environmental professionals to create an innovative urban vision for Los Angeles' CleanTech Corridor, a several-mile-long development zone on the eastern edge of downtown LA.")
Sci-ARC
Lost In The Shuffle: Examining TSA's Management Of Surface Transportation Security Inspectors (hearings)
U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Homeland Security
MetroFlickrLA: MTA New Flyer
MetroRider LA
OCTA To Post Employee Pay, Benefits
Orange County Register
A Short Ride On The Bus: OCTA's Mission Imperiled (8p. PDF)
Orange County Grand Jury
Ohio Sen. Voinovich Calls For Higher Federal Gas Tax
California High Speed Rail Blog
Opinion: Accelerating Measure R's Job Creation: By Accelerating Measure R's Transit Construction Through Bond Sales, L.A. County Could Generate At Least 165,000 Jobs Here And Now With The 30/10 Project
Los Angeles Times
Our Waistlines Are Expanding In Sync With Our Car-Dependence
StreetsBlog DC
Railroads Redraw The Intermodal Map
Journal Of Commerce
U.S. Ports To See 15% Gain In 2010
The Street
US Rail Traffic Hits New 2010 Peak
Journal Of Commerce
With L.A.-Style Carpool Lanes, Will We Sacrifice Safety For Convenience?
San Jose Mercury News
How Express Lanes Will Work
San Jose Mercury News
8/09/2010
Beverly Hills Subway, Apple's Smart Bike, Gas Tax Benefits, User-Fee Model, National Freight Act & More
After Herald Tip, MBTA Turns To Social Media To Help Fight Crime On Trains
Boston Herald
Apple Introduces Us To The Smart Bike
Patently Apple
City Walk: Time To Return To L.A.'s Core ("In several pockets of downtown change seems to have paused at an especially opportune moment.")
Los Angeles Times
Engines Of Growth (How high-speed rail in China is fueling the economy)
Time
Governments Go To Extremes As The Downturn Wears On
New York Times
It's No Cars Go In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Makeover
Fast Company
Mayor's Bike Summit Fails The Engagement Test
CityWatch
New And Notable: Traffic & Gridlock, Becoming An Urban Planner, Sustainable Urban Design, Transportation In A Climate-Constrained world
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
New Ideas To Make Parking Easier
LA Observed
New Traffic Signals Make It Safer For Pedestrians
USA Today
Opinion: Think Big About Transportation
Los Angeles Daily News
The Problem With Ports, Or Why We Need A National Freight Act
StreetsBlog DC
Public Transit: Bleeding To Death From A Thousand Cuts?
Citiwire
Questions Bedevil Proposed California High-Speed Rail System
Whittier Daily News
Richard Devylder Leads The Charge For Accessibility In Transportation (DOT's new Senior Advisor For Accessible Transportation, formerly of the California Emergency Management Agency, was born without arms or legs. "Because of public transportation, I was able to go to school, I was able to start building a career -- I was able to live independently. Those things wouldn't have happened for me otherwise.")
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Rocket-Powered Personal Helicopter Emits Only Water
Wired
San Francisco Rolls Out Supply-And-Demand Pricing For Parking Meters
GOOD
San Gabriel Valley Debates HSR Routes
California High Speed Rail Blog
Search For Pasadena's New Planning Director To Begin
Pasadena Star-News
A Strategy Session For Los Angeles
California Planning & Development Report
Subway Worries Getting Louder In Beverly Hills
Curbed LA
Sustainable Bus Stops: Tiffany Roddis' "Ecoshel" Encourages People To Use Public Transportation
Trendhunter
Traffic-Camera Debate Heats Up Campaign Trails
New York Times
Transportation User Fee Model Obsolete, But No Solution On The Horizon
Transport Politic
U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Up To $25 Million For High-Speed Passenger Rail Research
Rail Engineer
Voinovich: Gas Tax Hike Would Pump Up The Job Market, Help Close Deficit
The Hill
Where's The World's Most Painful Commute?
The City Fix
Will FREIGHT Act Deliver?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Boston Herald
Apple Introduces Us To The Smart Bike
Patently Apple
City Walk: Time To Return To L.A.'s Core ("In several pockets of downtown change seems to have paused at an especially opportune moment.")
Los Angeles Times
Engines Of Growth (How high-speed rail in China is fueling the economy)
Time
Governments Go To Extremes As The Downturn Wears On
New York Times
It's No Cars Go In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Makeover
Fast Company
Mayor's Bike Summit Fails The Engagement Test
CityWatch
New And Notable: Traffic & Gridlock, Becoming An Urban Planner, Sustainable Urban Design, Transportation In A Climate-Constrained world
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
New Ideas To Make Parking Easier
LA Observed
New Traffic Signals Make It Safer For Pedestrians
USA Today
Opinion: Think Big About Transportation
Los Angeles Daily News
The Problem With Ports, Or Why We Need A National Freight Act
StreetsBlog DC
Public Transit: Bleeding To Death From A Thousand Cuts?
Citiwire
Questions Bedevil Proposed California High-Speed Rail System
Whittier Daily News
Richard Devylder Leads The Charge For Accessibility In Transportation (DOT's new Senior Advisor For Accessible Transportation, formerly of the California Emergency Management Agency, was born without arms or legs. "Because of public transportation, I was able to go to school, I was able to start building a career -- I was able to live independently. Those things wouldn't have happened for me otherwise.")
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Rocket-Powered Personal Helicopter Emits Only Water
Wired
San Francisco Rolls Out Supply-And-Demand Pricing For Parking Meters
GOOD
San Gabriel Valley Debates HSR Routes
California High Speed Rail Blog
Search For Pasadena's New Planning Director To Begin
Pasadena Star-News
A Strategy Session For Los Angeles
California Planning & Development Report
Subway Worries Getting Louder In Beverly Hills
Curbed LA
Sustainable Bus Stops: Tiffany Roddis' "Ecoshel" Encourages People To Use Public Transportation
Trendhunter
Traffic-Camera Debate Heats Up Campaign Trails
New York Times
Transportation User Fee Model Obsolete, But No Solution On The Horizon
Transport Politic
U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Up To $25 Million For High-Speed Passenger Rail Research
Rail Engineer
Voinovich: Gas Tax Hike Would Pump Up The Job Market, Help Close Deficit
The Hill
Where's The World's Most Painful Commute?
The City Fix
Will FREIGHT Act Deliver?
National Journal Transportation Blog
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