8/20/2010
Metro Art For Kids, 30/15 Or 20, Private Buses, Transit Coalition & More
The Art Of Riding The Rails: Great Train Movies + Art And The LA Metro System ("The thriving public art program is testimony to the creativity of Angelenos, both past and present.")
Kids Off The Couch Los Angeles
Bicycle City (Interview with Bicycle City co-founder Joe Mellett who envisions car-free towns as a showcase for wind and solar energy as well as architects who specialize in green and LEED-certified problems.)
Architizer
Car-Free Community Cropping Up In Rural Columbia [S.C.] Suburb
Charleston City Paper
Central Coast Railroad Festival: October 7-11 ("Second Annual Festival to focus on modeling, history and rail excursions...throughout San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara Counties.")
Rail Passenger Association Of California & Nevada
Central Coast Railroad Festival Website
Chicago's Parking Fiasco Fails To Stem Calls For Privatization Of Infrastructure
Transport Politic
City Working To Make Car-Sharing More Popular ("City planners describe car sharing as a sort of library service for cars. Drivers who pay an annual fee to join a car-share organization can reserve cars, by the hour or by the day, and pick them up at hundreds of spots around the city. The hourly rates include gas and insurance and, in some cases, mileage charges. We estimate our average member can save some $600 a month over the cost of owning a car in the city.")
San Francisco Chronicle
How About 30/15? Maybe 30/20? ("Why does a simple bonding plan require federal involvement? And why is it such a big deal? After a phone call or two, the picture is coming into shape.")
Legal Planet
LA Council Votes To Solicit Bids For Parking Garage Leases
Southern California Public Radio
Metro's Art Leahy Holds Court With The Transit Coalition
SoapBox LA
The Party Of Roads? ("Transportation has become a gubernatorial issue even in states where modal antagonism is not in play.")
Transportation Nation
Paved And Confused: What Krugman, Maddow, And The Press Corps Don't Understand About Gravel Roads
Slate
Photos: Designing L.A. With Toys & Other Abstract Objects At Last Night's Car-Free Party
LAist
A Private Bus Service Picks Up Slack From [New York] MTA Cuts, But With Questions
WNYC
Private Buses
Think Progress
Question, Answer: Parking On Street Sweeping Days?
LAist
What LA Knew 95 Years Ago That We Should Know Today
CityWatch
8/19/2010
Red Line & Purple Line Walk/Transit Scores, Seatless Subways, L.A. One-Way Streets, Rail Technology Center, Vegas Monorail & More
Architectural Exhibit Reimagines Public Transportation In LA
Southern California Public Radio
As America Grows Fatter, It Burns More Gas
Wired
At FRA's TTC In Pueblo, Colorado, Testing Trains, Track, And All Things Rail (An insider's look at the Federal Railroad Administration's Transportation Technology Center)
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Beyond City Limits: The Age Of Nations Is Over, The New Urban Age Has Begun (The rise of megacities and innovation hubs is leading to a balance shift that will make cities, not nations, the most powerful drivers in the world economy: "[J]ust 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its innovation...These cities are the engines of globalization, and their enduring vibrancy lies in money, knowledge, and stability.")
Foreign Policy
Photo Essay
Can Bike Sharing Work In Cities With Monofunctional Job Centers?
Transport Politic
Can Conservatives Ride "No Train" To Victory?
Huffington Post
Checking In On The Seatless Subway
Gothamist
Cyclists Ask For Progress, Not Promises
Blog Downtown
Finding New Ways To Fill The Tank (research into gasoline substitutes)
New York Times via Gainesville Sun
How To Raise Fares
Planetizen
Is I-5 Expansion An Environmental Disaster? (audio)
KPBS
Urban Area Transit Strategy
SANDAG
It's Time To Try The One-Way Street Plan
Huffington Post
L.A. Must Lease 9 Parking Garages To Private Operators Or Sack Up To 1,000 Employees
LAist
London's Do-It-Yourself Approach To Safer Streets (video)
StreetFilms
Mid-Year Meeting 2010 (Irvine, CA : Transportation Research Board Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee : September 21-22)
TRB ITS Committee
Monorail Proposes Plan To Cut $630 Million In Debt
Las Vegas Sun
Our View: Fast Train To Nowhere
Pasadena Star-News
Pay Records Online: Transit Chief Makes $376,000
Orange County Register
Transparency Transportation: OCTA Salaries And Benefits
OCTA
Plans Afoot For New Pier Bridge
Santa Monica Daily Press
Right-Wing Candidates Attack HSR
California High-Speed Rail Blog
The Seat Belts On The Bus Go Click, Click, Click ("The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed a requirement that seat belts be installed on all new motorcoaches. The requirement would not apply to school buses and may not apply to used buses. Greyhound estimates that 20% of their fleet will have seat belts by the end of this summer.")
Wired
Street Safety Projects Threatened As States Give Transpo $ Back To Feds
StreetsBlog DC
Walk Score And Transit Score For Red And Purple Lines
MetroRider LA
With Clipper Card Change, Some Communities Bemoan Lack Of Outreach
StreetsBlog SF
Southern California Public Radio
As America Grows Fatter, It Burns More Gas
Wired
At FRA's TTC In Pueblo, Colorado, Testing Trains, Track, And All Things Rail (An insider's look at the Federal Railroad Administration's Transportation Technology Center)
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Beyond City Limits: The Age Of Nations Is Over, The New Urban Age Has Begun (The rise of megacities and innovation hubs is leading to a balance shift that will make cities, not nations, the most powerful drivers in the world economy: "[J]ust 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its innovation...These cities are the engines of globalization, and their enduring vibrancy lies in money, knowledge, and stability.")
Foreign Policy
Photo Essay
Can Bike Sharing Work In Cities With Monofunctional Job Centers?
Transport Politic
Can Conservatives Ride "No Train" To Victory?
Huffington Post
Checking In On The Seatless Subway
Gothamist
Cyclists Ask For Progress, Not Promises
Blog Downtown
Finding New Ways To Fill The Tank (research into gasoline substitutes)
New York Times via Gainesville Sun
How To Raise Fares
Planetizen
Is I-5 Expansion An Environmental Disaster? (audio)
KPBS
Urban Area Transit Strategy
SANDAG
It's Time To Try The One-Way Street Plan
Huffington Post
L.A. Must Lease 9 Parking Garages To Private Operators Or Sack Up To 1,000 Employees
LAist
London's Do-It-Yourself Approach To Safer Streets (video)
StreetFilms
Mid-Year Meeting 2010 (Irvine, CA : Transportation Research Board Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee : September 21-22)
TRB ITS Committee
Monorail Proposes Plan To Cut $630 Million In Debt
Las Vegas Sun
Our View: Fast Train To Nowhere
Pasadena Star-News
Pay Records Online: Transit Chief Makes $376,000
Orange County Register
Transparency Transportation: OCTA Salaries And Benefits
OCTA
Plans Afoot For New Pier Bridge
Santa Monica Daily Press
Right-Wing Candidates Attack HSR
California High-Speed Rail Blog
The Seat Belts On The Bus Go Click, Click, Click ("The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed a requirement that seat belts be installed on all new motorcoaches. The requirement would not apply to school buses and may not apply to used buses. Greyhound estimates that 20% of their fleet will have seat belts by the end of this summer.")
Wired
Street Safety Projects Threatened As States Give Transpo $ Back To Feds
StreetsBlog DC
Walk Score And Transit Score For Red And Purple Lines
MetroRider LA
With Clipper Card Change, Some Communities Bemoan Lack Of Outreach
StreetsBlog SF
8/18/2010
SurveyLA, I-405 Community Meeting, Top 50 Transpo Blogs, Undrivers Licenses, New TSA Chief, Broad Museum OK'd & More
Brain Donors (U.S. DOT Equity Bonus Program)
New Republic
U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
LAist
Blog Downtown
GOOD
Smart Planet
Blog Downtown
Washington Post
Daily Breeze
Transportation For America
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Press Release
StreetsBlog DC
SurveyLA: What Is It And Why Does It Matter?
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Taking High-Speed Trains Into The Future
Miller-McCune
The Top 50 Blogs For Transportation Management Professionals (Metro Library's Los Angeles Transportation Headlines is recognized)
Masters In Public Administration
Unemployed Call For MTA To Speed Up Transit Plans And Create Jobs
USC Annenberg South Los Angeles Report
Transport Politic
Infrastructurist
WWID Or What Would Ike Do? (This column is told in the first person of the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, regarding how to repair America's roads, highways and their funding)
PBS Blueprint America
8/17/2010
Walk Score's Transit Score, Bus Seat Belts, Research Roundup, Vintage Subway Posters, LEED Dangers, High-Speed Catenary Tram & More
AFL-CIO Pushes For Mass Transit Jobs In Los Angeles
Apollo Blog
Assessing The Cost Of High Speed Rail
California High Speed Rail Blog
City To Retrofit Buses With GPS Tracking
NYU News
Deadliest For Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns
New York Times
Defining A Transit Wireless Blueprint
Mass Transit
Demand For High-Speed Rail Funding Swells
Reuters
A Desert City That Didn't Fan Out: Nathan Mendelsohn, A Professor Turned Developer, Believed California City Would Become The State's Next Metropolis. Instead It's A Sleepy Outpost That Exists Largely In The Imagination
Los Angeles Times
A Field Guide To Transit Quarrels
Human Transit
Goodbye Land Transit? Say Hello To The New Flying Suntram (Denver's high-speed regional transportation system supported primarily by a catenary cable: a flying tram that carries cars and passengers high above the roads and bridges, at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour)
Infrastructurist
Suntram Video Via YouTube
Helmets Ready! Mayor Hosts First Bike Summit
StreetsBlog LA
LEED Building Standards Fail To Protect Human Health
Yale Environment 360
Living In A Walker's Paradise?
The City Fix
Los Angeles Unified Transportation Recognized For Achievements In CNG
School Transportation News
NHTSA Working To Improve Motorcoach Safety With Lap-Shoulder Belt Requirement
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
OCTA Moves Forward With Long-Term Traffic Relief Plan In Central County: Agency Will Seek Funding To Begin Improvements to Freeways, Streets, Transit In The Area Over The Next 25 Years
OC Metro
Outgunned And Outnumbered, California High-Speed Rail Opponents Have Numerous Options To Fight Back
Mass Transit
Rail Safety: Making The Railroad Mantra "Safety First" More Than Words In A Manual
Progressive Railroading
Railroads' Guarded Secret: Not Even HAZMAT Teams Are Told What's On Train
Press Connects
Research Roundup: Transit Benefits & Costs, Highway Funding, Bus & Rail Transit, Security & Procurements
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
San Gabriel Selling Old Street Signs Steeped In History
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Smarter Cities: Crowdsourcing Ideas For Urban Innovation
Big Think
Smarter Cities
TRB Webinar: Toward Zero Deaths ("TRB is conducting a webinar or “web seminar” on August 25-26, 2010, of a stakeholder workshop that will gather input for developing and implementing a national strategic highway safety plan. Registration is free; however, participants must register in advance of the workshop.")
U.S. Transportation Research Board
Registration
Vintage Tokyo Subway Manner Posters (Must-see posters reminding subway riders of proper behavior)
Pink Tentacle
Walk Score Expands Into Transit Score; Housing Plus Transportation Costs
Transportation For America
TransitScore
Well, Where SHOULD We Develop In LA?
CityWatch
White House Under Fire For Unspent Infrastructure Cash
Wall Street Journal
Apollo Blog
Assessing The Cost Of High Speed Rail
California High Speed Rail Blog
City To Retrofit Buses With GPS Tracking
NYU News
Deadliest For Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns
New York Times
Defining A Transit Wireless Blueprint
Mass Transit
Demand For High-Speed Rail Funding Swells
Reuters
A Desert City That Didn't Fan Out: Nathan Mendelsohn, A Professor Turned Developer, Believed California City Would Become The State's Next Metropolis. Instead It's A Sleepy Outpost That Exists Largely In The Imagination
Los Angeles Times
A Field Guide To Transit Quarrels
Human Transit
Goodbye Land Transit? Say Hello To The New Flying Suntram (Denver's high-speed regional transportation system supported primarily by a catenary cable: a flying tram that carries cars and passengers high above the roads and bridges, at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour)
Infrastructurist
Suntram Video Via YouTube
Helmets Ready! Mayor Hosts First Bike Summit
StreetsBlog LA
LEED Building Standards Fail To Protect Human Health
Yale Environment 360
Living In A Walker's Paradise?
The City Fix
Los Angeles Unified Transportation Recognized For Achievements In CNG
School Transportation News
NHTSA Working To Improve Motorcoach Safety With Lap-Shoulder Belt Requirement
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
OCTA Moves Forward With Long-Term Traffic Relief Plan In Central County: Agency Will Seek Funding To Begin Improvements to Freeways, Streets, Transit In The Area Over The Next 25 Years
OC Metro
Outgunned And Outnumbered, California High-Speed Rail Opponents Have Numerous Options To Fight Back
Mass Transit
Rail Safety: Making The Railroad Mantra "Safety First" More Than Words In A Manual
Progressive Railroading
Railroads' Guarded Secret: Not Even HAZMAT Teams Are Told What's On Train
Press Connects
Research Roundup: Transit Benefits & Costs, Highway Funding, Bus & Rail Transit, Security & Procurements
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
San Gabriel Selling Old Street Signs Steeped In History
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Smarter Cities: Crowdsourcing Ideas For Urban Innovation
Big Think
Smarter Cities
TRB Webinar: Toward Zero Deaths ("TRB is conducting a webinar or “web seminar” on August 25-26, 2010, of a stakeholder workshop that will gather input for developing and implementing a national strategic highway safety plan. Registration is free; however, participants must register in advance of the workshop.")
U.S. Transportation Research Board
Registration
Vintage Tokyo Subway Manner Posters (Must-see posters reminding subway riders of proper behavior)
Pink Tentacle
Walk Score Expands Into Transit Score; Housing Plus Transportation Costs
Transportation For America
TransitScore
Well, Where SHOULD We Develop In LA?
CityWatch
White House Under Fire For Unspent Infrastructure Cash
Wall Street Journal
8/16/2010
NYT On 405 Gridlock, Red Cars Coming To Anaheim, Maglev & Vegas, Commuting Health Poll, Highway Trust Fund, Cost Of Free Parking & More
Bar Cars Keep Chugging
Wall Street Journal
Billions Earmarked For Bay Area Transportation Projects ("Desperate for work, construction companies are entering bids at 30 to 40 percent under projected cost. While that has saved state and local agencies about $4 billion since 2006, it is only part of the story. Stimulus funds that must be allocated by the end of September have propelled work. Since 2006, voters have approved two bonds totaling $30 billion for road and transit upgrades that must be under way by 2012. And bridge tolls have been raised four times in the past 10 years.")
San Jose Mercury News
Carnegie Mellon Tries Crowdsourcing To Develop Optimal Electric Car Formula
Campus Technology
Collaborative Democracy: Beth Noveck On Reengineering Civic Life ("The way we are bringing about change is by opening the doors and data of government - by making unprecedented openness the default.")
WorldChanging
Councilman Plays Matchmaker For The Southwest Museum ("Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents Mount Washington, said he's been working to find a match and has approached Occidental College in Eagle Rock about their interest in running Los Angeles' first museum.")
Eastsider LA
Councilmember Wants City To Study Cyclist-Friendly Staircases
LAist
Crowdsourcing Architecture Criticism
Metropolis
CSULB Students Will Get A Free Ride On Long Beach Buses
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Debt Woes Sap Europe's Big Dream Investments
Associated Press
Driverless Cars Just Around The Corner
Kansas City Star
Evaluating Public Transit Benefits And Costs: Best Practices Guidebook (120p. PDF)
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Free Parking Comes At A Price
New York Times
The Highway Trust Fund: Big Wheel, Keep On Turning
Transportation Nation
Improvement Project Continues On 110 Freeway
Pasadena Star-News
LA Hopes To Blow Up Postwar Zoning Codes: Planning Commission Undertaking First Top-To-Bottom Revision In Six Decades, Streamlining And Speeding Up Land-Use
Architect's Newspaper
Mapping Transit Frequency Online
Trillium Transit
Mayor Using "Google Moderator" To Reach Out Before Summit
StreetsBlog LA
Myths Destroying Los Angeles
CityWatch
New Stress Added To The Heart Of Los Angeles Gridlock ("The intersection of Interstate 405 and Sunset Boulevard, cutting through a prosperous stretch of rolling Los Angeles hills and estates, is notorious for its knots of traffic and frustrating delays. Traffic is so bad that it is hard to figure out how it could get any worse.")
New York Times
Opinion: Maglev Technology Makes Sense For Las Vegas-L.A. Train
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Overselling The Benefits Of High-Speed Rail
Transport Politic
Quality Public Transportation = Quality Of Life, APTA Report Says
Progressive Railroading
Questions Bedevil Proposed California High-Speed Rail System
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Red Car Trolley To Ply Disney California Adventure Streets In 2012 ("Reminiscent of the Pacific Electric Railway that ran throughout Southern California in the 1920s when Walt Disney first arrived in Los Angeles, the Red Car Trolley will feature a butterfly grill evocative of the original and seating for 20 passengers amid a green-and-cream interior.")
Los Angeles Times
Social Bicycles Bike Sharing System Powered By Iphone App To Hit NYC This Fall
Engadget
Slow Progress On Some Big Stimulus Projects
Wall Street Journal
Streets Are For People!: Park(ing) Day LA
CityWatch
Thousands Rally For Jobs And Public Transit In L.A.
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
Top 10 Reasons People Avoid Public Transit
Plus Metro
Voinvich [sic] Clarifies Gas Tax Hike Should Help Transportation Funding
The Hill
Wellbeing Lower Among Workers With Long Commutes (poll)
Gallup
Where Are O.C.'s Busiest Intersections?
Orange County Register
Who Will Pay For California's High-Speed Rail System?
San Jose Mercury News
Wall Street Journal
Billions Earmarked For Bay Area Transportation Projects ("Desperate for work, construction companies are entering bids at 30 to 40 percent under projected cost. While that has saved state and local agencies about $4 billion since 2006, it is only part of the story. Stimulus funds that must be allocated by the end of September have propelled work. Since 2006, voters have approved two bonds totaling $30 billion for road and transit upgrades that must be under way by 2012. And bridge tolls have been raised four times in the past 10 years.")
San Jose Mercury News
Carnegie Mellon Tries Crowdsourcing To Develop Optimal Electric Car Formula
Campus Technology
Collaborative Democracy: Beth Noveck On Reengineering Civic Life ("The way we are bringing about change is by opening the doors and data of government - by making unprecedented openness the default.")
WorldChanging
Councilman Plays Matchmaker For The Southwest Museum ("Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents Mount Washington, said he's been working to find a match and has approached Occidental College in Eagle Rock about their interest in running Los Angeles' first museum.")
Eastsider LA
Councilmember Wants City To Study Cyclist-Friendly Staircases
LAist
Crowdsourcing Architecture Criticism
Metropolis
CSULB Students Will Get A Free Ride On Long Beach Buses
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Debt Woes Sap Europe's Big Dream Investments
Associated Press
Driverless Cars Just Around The Corner
Kansas City Star
Evaluating Public Transit Benefits And Costs: Best Practices Guidebook (120p. PDF)
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Free Parking Comes At A Price
New York Times
The Highway Trust Fund: Big Wheel, Keep On Turning
Transportation Nation
Improvement Project Continues On 110 Freeway
Pasadena Star-News
LA Hopes To Blow Up Postwar Zoning Codes: Planning Commission Undertaking First Top-To-Bottom Revision In Six Decades, Streamlining And Speeding Up Land-Use
Architect's Newspaper
Mapping Transit Frequency Online
Trillium Transit
Mayor Using "Google Moderator" To Reach Out Before Summit
StreetsBlog LA
Myths Destroying Los Angeles
CityWatch
New Stress Added To The Heart Of Los Angeles Gridlock ("The intersection of Interstate 405 and Sunset Boulevard, cutting through a prosperous stretch of rolling Los Angeles hills and estates, is notorious for its knots of traffic and frustrating delays. Traffic is so bad that it is hard to figure out how it could get any worse.")
New York Times
Opinion: Maglev Technology Makes Sense For Las Vegas-L.A. Train
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Overselling The Benefits Of High-Speed Rail
Transport Politic
Quality Public Transportation = Quality Of Life, APTA Report Says
Progressive Railroading
Questions Bedevil Proposed California High-Speed Rail System
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Red Car Trolley To Ply Disney California Adventure Streets In 2012 ("Reminiscent of the Pacific Electric Railway that ran throughout Southern California in the 1920s when Walt Disney first arrived in Los Angeles, the Red Car Trolley will feature a butterfly grill evocative of the original and seating for 20 passengers amid a green-and-cream interior.")
Los Angeles Times
Social Bicycles Bike Sharing System Powered By Iphone App To Hit NYC This Fall
Engadget
Slow Progress On Some Big Stimulus Projects
Wall Street Journal
Streets Are For People!: Park(ing) Day LA
CityWatch
Thousands Rally For Jobs And Public Transit In L.A.
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
Top 10 Reasons People Avoid Public Transit
Plus Metro
Voinvich [sic] Clarifies Gas Tax Hike Should Help Transportation Funding
The Hill
Wellbeing Lower Among Workers With Long Commutes (poll)
Gallup
Where Are O.C.'s Busiest Intersections?
Orange County Register
Who Will Pay For California's High-Speed Rail System?
San Jose Mercury News
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